2018 Africa Utility Week was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 15th-17^th, 2018. The exhibition is jointly organized by the South African Power Company (ESKOM) and the South African Ministry of Industry and Trade (DTI), which involves power generation, transmission and distribution, smart metering, new energy power generation, and water resources management, etc. The exhibition products cover all the power and water industry chains, including power generation, solar energy, hydropower, wind power, metering, transmission and distribution, major electric power customers (mining, power retailers, commerce, and agriculture), water and other fields. The exhibition attracted more than 300 manufacturers from over 80 countries and regions around the world.

As a well-known public utility solution provider in China, Chint Meter has exhibited a series of products including smart electricity meters, smart water meters, smart gas meters, industrial control din-rail meters and panel meters. During the exhibition, Chint showed the smart prepayment 4.0 solution to customers. This solution solved the problems of current users' difficulty in paying fees, wasting time in queuing, the users need to input the top-up code by themselves, and the operation is complex. The ChintPAY payment platform integrates VODACOM. M-pesa e-wallet, users can easily pay fees and other functions through the mobile phone anytime, anywhere, the system automatically sends TOKEN through the network with safe and convenient operation. Also, the solution adopts Chint's PowerEasy energy management system, integrating AMI data acquisition, meter operation status monitoring, tamper alarm, balance alarm, mobile phone SMS reminder and etc., which solves the problem that the existing offline power sales system of the power bureau cannot realize power consumption management and tampering monitoring and etc., greatly solve customer management costs and improve management efficiency.