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BESCOM To Offer Power Cut SMS Alerts; Facebook Integration & Mapping Substations

Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) has launched a new pilot initiative called Fault Management System (FMS), through which it aims to alert customers about power cuts in advance through SMS, reports The Times Of India. The report states that the system is being tested since last month and the organization plans to extend the initiative to e-mail and Facebook in the future. At the time of writing this article, the FMS website suggests that it will continue in pilot mode until June 30, 2013. One can subscribe to the SMS alerts by heading over to the 'Customer Subscription' section on site, filling out a form with requisite details like Name, Mobile Number, Email address and address and RR (Revenue Register) Number and choosing their station and the feeder they are subscribed to.  The site also provides an Excel file as a download with all the station and feeder details, in case the user is not familiar as to which station and feeder they belong to. BESCOM says that it will be providing subscribers with information regarding the power interruption, reason for the interruption and restoration details through this initiative. Control Room: Besides this, we also noticed that the site seems to already offer both unscheduled and scheduled power interruption and restoration information through a section called 'Control Room'. The listings provide information like outage category, interruption time, expected restoration time, status of the interruption and reasons for the interruption among others. One can filter these listings based on the zone, circle, division and sub-division to…

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