HYDERABAD: The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) is planning to make use of modern technology for the monitoring, supervision and security of towers carrying 500 and 220kV transmission lines in the southern region in collaboration with Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro.

A spokesman for NTDC said in a press release issued here on Thursday the MUET’s Telecom Department had developed a remote monitoring and intrusion detection system with a CCTV camera to help prevent theft of towers and transmission line material.

He said that a GSM technology-based CCTV camera would be installed on towers which would immediately send alarm to control room in case of any intrusion around the tower. The system would be run through solar power, he said.

The spokesman said that the surveillance system responded successfully in a demonstration performed by MUET team on a tower (location No. 428) of 500 kV Dadu-Jamshoro transmission line.

Published in Dawn, June 14th, 2019