The TWACS AMI system will include prepayment and non-technical loss solutions, in addition to the full AMI feature-set, which includes remote meter reading, outage management, line balance, aggregate demand, voltage quality and other miscellaneous cost saving solutions.

As a long-term partner, Aclara will assist Emcali, which serves 550,000 electric and 440,000 water customers in Santiago de Cali, with initiatives to improve its operating processes, enhance customer service, and facilitate operation of its electricity distribution system.

Aclara’s solution will provide Emcali with a custom web service interface that will facilitate the exchanging and synchronizing of prepay billing and payment data with a master billing station. The system configuration will include a specially designed loss mitigation solution that places pole-mounted AMI-enabled meters away from the homes.