Utilities

Both private and public utility organizations, whether electric or gas, face unique challenges. They must be capable of dealing with disaster and storm events, while their day to day operations require an emphasis on safety. Utility customers solve these challenges every day using Webtech Wireless’ solutions.

When dealing with tsunami alerts, Hawaii Electric Company turns to Quadrant:

“Quadrant makes such a difference by having that information available in real-time and on my computer so that I can easily direct our staff, and if needed, share that information with other emergency organizations,” Kelvin Kohatsu, HELCO Fleet Administrator.

Utilities name and logo are on the side of each and every truck. When a utility employee is injured on the job, it makes the news. We provide the visibility supervisors need to keep their crews safe. In the unfortunate case of an injury, they can instantly respond because they know exactly where each vehicle is located.

No matter the age of your fleet vehicles or how varied they are, our solutions will work with them. We have specialized sensors that provide automatic detection of boom up and boom down events, allowing for automated alerts and management insight into what is happening in the field.

Reduced time on the phone dispatching crews, monitoring stop times, and reducing the routes followed all result in higher fleet efficiencies. Utility customers use our geofencing features to automatically track that vehicles have left company parking lots on time. These and other capabilities create fleet savings over 15% per year. Time savings are realized for each crew every working day, which quickly adds up to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in savings per year.

Case Study Hawaii Electric

Challenge

The Hawaii Electric Company wanted to increase safety and realize cost savings by deploying an automated vehicle location system.

Solution

Hawaii Electric chose Quadrant to satisfy both requirements. In the first two years of deployment, Hawaii Electric realized fuel savings of 22,000 US gallons. In the third year of deployment, they realized an additional 18,000 US gallon savings.

“GPS technology, driver training (operator knowledge), more fuel efficient vehicles, and improved dispatch management let us realize these savings.” Kelvin Kohatsu, HELCO Fleet Administrator