Lehalima Electricity Payment Revenue Management System
Lehalima Electricity Prepayment System is a total revenue management system. It covers the various components of prepayment electricity from Merchant Management (supply chains stores which have multiple branches which in turn have multiple point of sale points and multiple operators), Point of sale Management (smaller vendors), User security, revenue management for all participants, as well as management functions for the end consumer such as meter management, customer management, tariff management of the various geographical areas and/or consumer classification. It is suitable for deployment at national, provincial and municipal levels respectively.
In South Africa it is Eskom’s plan to consolidate prepayment industry in the future to online vending systems using XML Vend Protocol to establish, promote and implement this protocol to interface between clients (municipalities) and server (Eskom/Electricity Generators) seamlessly in a fully automated manner.
Lehalima is a true prepayment system resulting in the risk of cash management and shortfalls for government are eliminated, whilst improving customer service.
Lehalima Smart Meter
Key Features:
- Pre and Post Paid AMI (Advance Metering Infrastructure)
- Structured finance for Infrastructure (metering)
- Recover historical debt through debt recovery
- Temper alarms
- Multiple Pricing plans
- Time-of-Use Pricing (TOU)-prices that vary by time period e.g Off/peak
- Critical Peak Pricing (CPP)-critical peak price on top of TOU rates.
- Extreme Day CPP (ED-CPP)-critical peak hours on extreme days but there is no TOU pricing on other days
- Real-Time Pricing (RTP)-prices that vary hourly or sub-hourly all year long
- Pre and Post Paid AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) for Hybrid Meter
- Better revenue management through accuracy
- Lowered cost of operations
- Automatic switching between prepaid and post paid
