panaji a company has submitted a proposal to the department whereby it will install freeofcost high technology meters parallel to the existing meters at various places for testing purpose calangutecandolim area has been selected as one site for the pilot project area has been selected as one site for the pilot project the advantage of these meters is that readers need not go to each meter to record the readings engineers will install an instrument with modem in the transformer unit of that locality that instrument will record the meter readings of all meters within 200 m radial distance from it the instrument will then transmit all collected data through technology comprising sim card gprs etc to the computer server in electricity department head office this system will be first tested functionally for some time and if the department is interested it may adopt the system initially for one town and later for the full state