Carnegie Mellon University
© Dr. Rahul Tongia
22
Draft – Subject to Change
Implementation of Smart IT:
Organizational Barriers
–“Inertia” of some utility ground-staff
–Reduces their extra income (theft connivance) or local standing
–Bad decisions carry some irreversibility
–E.g., reintroducing meters for the 12 million+ pumpsets is very hard
–Half-way measures for Digital Metering ($100s of millions at a state level)