Kuryentxt is a SAAS (Software as a Service) application which allows Distribution Utilities to offer Prepaid Electricity Services (PES) to its customers. Used in conjunction with a Sysmtream-GSM enabled Automated Meter Reading (AMR) solution, Kuryentxt gives DU's the immediate capability to offer Prepaid Electricity Service to its retail customers. The use of GSM voice channel to transmit data to
and from the back-end servers, assures a higher SLA in communications as opposed to systems using shared protocols such as GPRS. As Kuryentxt is offered on an SAAS basis, DU's do not need to make large investments in IT infrastructure to host and operate the prepaid system engine. Our Kuryentxt AMR system reads each meter in 30 minute intervals (nominal) and updates each meter’s remaining credit balance at the same time. As the remaining balance is calculated at our back-end servers, the DU is guaranteed a secure and reliable environment for PES. Our system aggregates all the customer top-ups on a daily basis and the amounts are remitted to the DU at the end of business day by our banking partner who maintains fiduciary custody of all monies involved in the transactions. For full transparency, retail customers may log-in to the Kuryentxt portal to view their current virtual bill and top-up transaction history. Customers may also opt to receive low-balance and other system related SMS alerts such as top-ups, disconnects and reconnects on a VAS basis. It is our intention to utilize existing telco airtime load retailers in the distribution of KuryenTxt loads. This assures that customers do not have to go far to top-up. DU’s will only have to invest in our Libra meters that are both Postpaid and Prepaid capable and a Data Concentrator for each transformer circuit. Libra meters are available in both ANSI Form 1S and 2S with an accuracy of 0.5%.
