Web Assets Nigeria Limited has introduced Hawk Eye, a new mobile app which the developers say will help cut down on activities of vandals and energy thieves in the electricity industry.
According to the developers, the app enables electricity distribution companies to address challenges of infrastructure, such as vandalism resulting from the theft of transformer parts and loss of revenue due to power theft.
Hawk Eye would enable mobile phone users to report different types of crimes including service complaints.
With this, users could select crime types, capture and send videos, images or text messages of the crime, the firm said, adding that the crime report would be directed to the responsible security agencies for immediate response.
According to Kayode Aladesuyi, the Chairman, Web Assets Nigeria Limited, developers of the software, about 30 per cent of power loss in the country was attributable to power theft.
At the official launch of the software in Abuja, the acting Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Anthony Akah, said the use of the software would enable electricity distribution companies in the country to record a significant decline in power theft and vandalism.
Addressing the issue of dilapidated electricity distribution infrastructure in rural communities within the company’s area of coverage was said by Managing Director of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Mr. Ernest Mupwaya as another aim of the app to boost rural life and expressed the confidence of the company in the new software to assist in checking crimes in the power sector.
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