{"id":1000989,"date":"2026-04-04T07:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000989"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:21:14","slug":"big-global-investors-local-cos-eye-intellismart-as-smart-meter-push-gains-pace-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/big-global-investors-local-cos-eye-intellismart-as-smart-meter-push-gains-pace-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Big global investors, local cos eye IntelliSmart as smart meter push gains pace in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: More than half a dozen potential suitors including global investors Brookfield, Macquarie, KKR, and Actis are in early-stage talks to acquire IntelliSmart Infrastructure, said people familiar with the matter, reflecting strong investor interest in India&#8217;s growing market for smart meters. <\/p>\n<p>Homegrown smart meter manufacturers such as Adani Energy Solutions, I Squared Capital-owned Polaris Smart Metering, GIC-backed Genus Power, and Apraava Energy are also evaluating the opportunity, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: More than half a dozen potential suitors including global investors Brookfield, Macquarie, KKR, and Actis are in early-stage talks to acquire IntelliSmart Infrastructure, said people familiar with the matter, reflecting strong investor interest in India&#8217;s growing market for smart meters. Homegrown smart meter manufacturers such as Adani Energy Solutions, I Squared Capital-owned Polaris Smart Metering, GIC-backed Genus Power, and Apraava Energy are also evaluating the opportunity, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}