Learn: electricity, prepaid metering & energy saving
Practical, engineer-written guides on PG prepaid billing, commercial energy audits, HVAC optimisation, power factor, kVAh billing and IoT-driven electricity saving. Free and India-specific — built on data from 2,000+ real Enlog deployments.
Encharge & PG billing
Prepaid electricity meter
A prepaid electricity meter lets tenants, PGs and co-living owners pay for power upfront — like a mobile recharge. Here's how it works, who needs it, and how to choose one.
8 min read · Updated 2026-04-10
Reduce PG electricity bill
PG electricity bills can eat 20–30% of revenue. Learn the exact playbook PG owners use to cut bills and recover 100% cost from tenants — fairly and automatically.
9 min read · Updated 2026-04-08
Smart vs traditional meter
Smart meters read, report and control electricity consumption remotely. Traditional meters only spin. Here's the full comparison for PG owners, offices and homes.
7 min read · Updated 2026-04-07
Common area billing PG
Corridors, lifts, pumps, gyms — who pays? Learn the fair, transparent way PGs split common-area electricity bills among tenants using room-wise prepaid meters.
6 min read · Updated 2026-04-05
Landlord tenant billing
Everything a landlord needs to know about billing tenants fairly for electricity — legality, tariff, meters, prepaid apps, disputes, and what to put in the rent agreement.
8 min read · Updated 2026-03-25
Energy saving
Save electricity in hotels
Hotels spend 3–6% of revenue on electricity. A data-driven playbook combining HVAC, guest-room automation, chiller optimisation and IoT metering typically cuts 20–35%.
9 min read · Updated 2026-04-02
HVAC optimization
HVAC is 40–60% of every commercial electricity bill. Here are the 12 proven optimisation techniques for offices, hotels, hospitals and malls, ranked by impact.
10 min read · Updated 2026-04-01
BEE 5-star vs IoT
BEE 5-star ratings cut consumption per device. IoT energy management cuts how and when devices are used. Combine both for audit-grade savings without guest discomfort.
6 min read · Updated 2026-03-18
Energy audit
Automation & IoT
Power factor correction
Poor power factor quietly inflates electricity bills by 5–20%. Here's how PF works, how to measure it, and how APFC panels and IoT meters fix it.
7 min read · Updated 2026-03-28
IoT energy management
IoT converts a building from a monthly bill into a real-time data stream. Here are the top 10 IoT energy management use cases proven in India across PG, hotel, mall, office and factory.
8 min read · Updated 2026-03-26
Occupancy sensors
Occupancy and motion sensors switch lights, AC and fans off when rooms are empty. Corridors, bathrooms, meeting rooms and hotel rooms all benefit. Here's how to plan a retrofit.
6 min read · Updated 2026-03-12
Tariffs & billing
VRV/VRF billing
VRV/VRF systems serve many zones from one outdoor unit — billing each zone is tricky. Here's how modern IoT metering attributes VRV consumption per room or per tenant.
7 min read · Updated 2026-04-04
3-phase vs 1-phase billing
Most PG rooms are single-phase, but heavy common loads and VRF are three-phase. Here's how to meter and bill both correctly — kWh, kVAh and power factor.
7 min read · Updated 2026-04-03
kWh vs kVAh
Residential bills are kWh, commercial bills are often kVAh. The difference is power factor, and it can add 10–20% to your bill if you don't know what to fix.
5 min read · Updated 2026-03-15
Products
DG fuel theft monitoring
DG fuel theft and inefficiency silently eats 8–15% of backup power cost. Learn the IoT-based detection methods used by hotels, hospitals, telcos and malls in India.
7 min read · Updated 2026-03-30
Water motor controller
A smart water motor controller stops dry running, over-current trips, and prevents overflow — saving water, electricity and pump life. Here's what to look for.
6 min read · Updated 2026-03-20