India, April 13 -- Reliance Jio has deployed its first commercial Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) service for Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDL) smart meters. Notably, the discom supplies electricity to North Delhi.

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The discom, on Monday, released a statement detailing the development. Incidentally, Tata Power's Delhi arm had already installed 2.3 lakh smart meters around the capital region. Notably, this is the first time where smart meters are installed on NB-IoT. Moreover, the discom added that Reliance Jio provided the NB-IoT service.

Basically, NB-IoT is a low-power, wide-area radio network technology standard. This standard was first developed by 3GPP, the same organization that regulates ...