Chander Goel is a Member of the Group Technical Staff (MGTS) and an Embedded Processing Field Application Engineer at Texas Instruments India. He has been with TI for the last 18 years and has had a long association with Smart Grid Solution providers in India. During this association, he has strongly advocated the use of LPRF technologies and standardized protocols in this domain, focusing on the ideal architecture of large AMI systems, reliable communication infrastructure to meet the SLAs, measures to ensure cybersecurity, and the architecture and functionalities of the Smart Meter Operations Center (SMOC) and Network Management System (NMS).