Title :
Asset management at City Power Johannesburg enabled by ICT
Author :
Pieterse, Louis ; Ebert, Achim ; Ryan, Paul
Author_Institution :
City Power, South Africa
Abstract :
The paper deals with the improvement of distribution grid operations at City Power, Johannesburg, South Africa, based on better knowledge of asset condition in the field and related maintenance, replacement or expansion requirements, derived from accurate and consistent (near) real-time information acquired via the combination of state of the art SCADA and Mobile Workforce Management systems.
Keywords :
SCADA systems; asset management; distribution networks; maintenance engineering; power grids; City Power; ICT; Johannesburg; SCADA; South Africa; asset management; distribution grid operations; expansion requirement; maintenance requirement; mobile workforce management systems; real-time information; replacement requirement;
Conference_Titel :
Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2013), 22nd International Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Stockholm
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-732-8
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1042