MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122977 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'anomaly detection system for civic energy consumption monitoring.'

Inventor(s) include Kavya Jain; Parvathi P Pillai; and Dr. Deepika Rani Sona.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a method (100) for anomaly detection in civic energy consumption monitoring. The method (100) acquires civic energy consumption data in step (102) from smart meters and IoT sensors deployed across residential, commercial, and p...