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Tata Power’s Technological Innovations delivers exemplary customer experience
National, 13th May 2020: New and emerging technologies play a crucial role in influencing customer experience, especially in the essential services space. Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company has always strived to be relevant by constantly upgrading and adopting technological innovations.
In many areas, if not all, it has set a benchmark for developing products and services to suit the current requirement of their customers and at the same time preparing them for the future. In recent years, the company has facilitated an uninterrupted power supply with its efficient distribution system and minimized downtime.
Thus, leading the industry by providing best customer experience, it has introduced various technologically advanced hardware devices such as the Smart-meters, Wi-Fi enabled meters while riding the digital way by introducing app-based customer interface services such as Know Your Electricity Consumption (KYEC) and has provided multiple options for secure Digital Payment through using various platforms. It has also developed a unique digital platform using Geographical Information System (GIS) to resolve customer grievances, which has successfully converged with its customers.
Speaking on these innovations, Mr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & MD, Tata Power stated, “The introduction of all these services is a testament that we have our customer’s best interests at heart. We have always been a frontrunner in implementing technological innovations and will continue to ensure a smooth, secure, and reliable experience by introducing more customer-friendly services in the coming years.”
Speaking on the innovations, Mr. Sanjay Banga, President – Transmission & Distribution, Tata Power stated, “At Tata Power, it is our constant and continuous endeavor to ensure our customers enjoy our services in the most quick, easy, friendly and convenient manner. We believe that a customer does not choose only the product, but also the service it has to offer. And, as an enabler of human relationships, we are proud to serve our customers with technologically advanced services, which sets us apart from our peers.”
While SMRD and WMIU helps customers to view and manage meter reading and bill dispatch, Tata Power’s ‘Know Your Electricity Consumption’ (KYEC) App, VoiceBot TINA WhatsApp and Microsoft Kaizala service provide a holistic experience to customers for monitoring their home energy consumption.
- Know Your Electricity Consumption’ (KYEC) App: A first of its kind energy monitoring service from Tata Power, allows its customers (in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Ajmer) to view, monitor and control their power consumption for any given hour, day and month at the click of a button. In addition, the app also provides residential customers with real-time alerts on crossing the energy consumption beyond the slab thereby, encouraging them to use electricity in an efficient manner. An additional benefit is that consumers can better manage their power needs and reschedule their activities to avail Time of Day (ToD) tariff incentives.
- Voicebot TINA: This voice-enabled online customer assistant powered by Google enables customers to understand their electricity usage patterns and take corrective measures to reduce their power bill. It provides real-time notifications of bill due dates, thereby enabling them to make timely bill payments with the help of various digital payment options, and allows them to compare month-on-month information.
- WhatsApp Service: This is another quick solution option provided by the company to resolve consumer queries and concerns as well as get payment details by subscribing to the Tata Power WhatsApp numbers.
- Microsoft Kaizala: In continuation of their efforts to make things easy for their customers, the company associated with secure messaging and work management software application – Microsoft Kaizala, which ensures seamless function of bill generation and payment process along with timely notifications at regular intervals. The process includes the functions from meter reading, bill generation to discount alerts & reminder for outstanding bill payments, digital receipts, and disconnection alerts.
Integrated Grievance Redressal Mechanism: As important, as it is to provide reliable and affordable power, it is equally important to provide simple and straightforward solutions to address customer grievance and complaints. Waiting for a technician to arrive during outages or to manage other issues related to power bothers customers. Hence, in order to ensure a quality field service for Tata Power’s direct wire customers, the company has deployed Geographic Information System (GIS), an innovative first of its kind service provided by any utility in India. Enabled by MARC System, it is a key features backed by real-time data analysis and prediction technology It helps customers to track the technician along with his estimated time of arrival (ETA) scheduled to attend the complaints at any given location.
