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Credit Control has Returned to Johannesburg, Along With Rate Hikes
According to Business Day the City of Johannesburg lost over R1bn in under collected revenue during the South African national lockdown. Subsequently, the city has announced that they will be resuming with credit control measures and start cutting water and...
Why Pre-Paid metering (generally speaking) is a bad idea.
In recent years it seems increasingly more municipalities, utilities, body corporates, individuals, and in particular landlords are opting for the installation of pre-paid metering systems for both water and electricity in order to exercise control. The reason or...
Digital Transformation in Remote Data Acquisition and Field Services
The time for Digital Transformation is now Whilst many companies’ strategies take up to 5 years to implement the recent chain of events globally has proven that the time is now. Consolidated African Technologies has been able to carve out its 30-year existence...
Meter Reading and Municipal Field Work Services Impacted by COVID-19
Meter reading during lockdown Due to the serious nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africa took the unprecedented step of entering into a strict lockdown during March 2020. This has meant that a number of services were suspended at this time and some hadn’t...
NamWater elects to pilot CAT’s RouteMaster after 20 years of manual water meter reading.
Namibia Water Corporation Ltd (NamWater) is a commercial entity supplying water in bulk to industries, municipalities, and the Directorate of Rural Water Supply in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry in Namibia. NamWater has been taking water meter...
Endumeni Local Municipality upgrades to CAT electricity meter reading
Endumeni Local Municipality has recently upgraded their Financial Management System to Sage Evolution implemented by the team from CCG Systems. Together with this change of Billing, ERP, Accounting, and Payroll solutions the need also arose to have an independently...
SMART Solutions – Great! But not now
The ‘SMART Solution’ is where the Internet of Things (IoT) enables councils to predict, plan and deliver a utility and citizens to be (almost) in full control of the consumption thereof
To Android or not to Android…
Recently quite a few people enquired from me whether I believe that Android is any good as an Enterprise level OS in order to tool Field-based Enterprise Mobility projects. In the past, this had been quite a contentious issue. As Android is leaving its teenage years...
Utilities: The Pros and Cons of Pre and Post Paid Metering
Many are asking if it is advisable to convert from a credit meter (post paid scenario) to pre-paid and what the financial impact and burden would be for either case. This is unfortunately not as simple as simply doing the math but the math is a good place to start...
