Some of the challenges that we foresee in Smart Grid implementation are Inadequacies in grid infra structure, Cyber security, Storage concerns, Data management, Communication issues.

With ESCOM having multiple vendors each of the vendors come with multiple protocol and software interoperability of these companies and  software is key which is not happening at present.

Adoption of new technologies  come with lot of challenges as we are not sure if a given technology  is reliable or if there is any loss to ESCOM both in terms of financial or assets. Creating a controlled environment to test this will be optimum

Granular level details of the ground reality is a must to make informed decisions in  day-day scenarios however the same is not possible due to the huge network being able to access the real time data  dissect the data helps in better  decision making.