Airtel plans to power 1.3 million homes in Bihar with NB-IoT smart meters

Bharti Airtel today unveiled its plans of deploying Narrow Band (NB-IoT) smart meters that will soon power around 1.3 million homes in the state of Bihar. The company is working in a partnership with Secure Meters and is the first one in the country to bring Narrow Band smart meters with a fallback option which will work on both 2G and 4G to ensure real-time connectivity and uninterrupted data transfer.

For the uninitiated, NB-IoT is a low-power radio technology developed by 3GPP that can be deployed in a large area and enables a wide variety of IoT devices and services including smart meters.