MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641061526 A) filed by Sr University, Warangal, Telangana, on May 14, for 'tamper detection system for electric meters.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Chandan Kumar Shiva; Dr. Nirmalya Mallick; Dr. B. Vedik; Sachidananda Sen; and Dr. Vivekananda Mukherjee.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A tamper detection system for electric meters, comprising a housing 101 defining an internal cavity for encasing an electric meter 110, a terminal module 102 to connect an electrical input and output lines 104 along a metered conduction path of the electric meter 110, a primary current sensing circuit 105 and a redundant backup current sensing circuit 106 to generate respective primary and backup current measurements of current flowing in the metered conduction path, an analog-to-digital conversion circuit 107 to convert analog sensor signals into digital metering data, a tamper-evidence module implemented by the controller and to generate a tamper event record and compute a cryptographic hash over at least a portion of the tamper event data, and to store the tamper event record and the cryptographic hash in a blockchain-based immutable storage module for subsequent verification."
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