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SEC embarks on E2.6m GIS project
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By Winile Masinga - SWAZI OBSERVER-12-Jul-2010
THE Swaziland Electricity Company (SEC) has embarked on a E2.6 million project to develop its Geographic Information System (GIS).
SEC Senior Land Surveyor, who is also coordinator of the project, Moses Sithole said improvement on the GIS meant improved on customer service delivery. He said SEC was in the process of mapping its distribution power lines and meters countrywide in order to develop its GIS.
Sithole said the exercise was expected to be over by the end of the 12-month contract period which SEC had with MnSA&S Architects and Surveyors, a company responsible for conducting the exercise.
He said despite improvement on customer service delivery, the mapping came with a lot of advantages on their side as a company as well because it would help them in planning for a number of activities that include networking, expansion and maintenance.
He said SEC has over 76 000 meters countrywide and the plan was to go from door to door and locate all of them.
“All premises and households that are connected to the company’s service shall be visited and we plead with our customers to cooperate with us by allowing our teams access as they execute this important assignment,” said Sithole.
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He said all information about each and every meter including its history, model, faults, etc, shall be collected and stored in the system and it shall be used by the company’s operators as and when the necessity arises. He said the information would also help to see if a meter or transformer was overloaded and means to avoid tripping be made on time.
Sithole added that the mapping would enhance speedy response to customer queries because the GIS would make it easy to locate faulty lines as soon as they were reported to them by clients. He said the GIS would be executed through the Global Positioning System (GPS).
The GPS is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides reliable location and time information in all weather and at all times and anywhere on or near the Earth when and where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites. It is maintained by the United States government and is freely accessible by anyone with a GPS receiver.
The GPS has become a widely used aid to navigation worldwide, and a useful tool for map-making, land surveying, commerce, scientific uses, tracking and surveillance.
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