Electricity Company Launches App In Enugu

Addressing solution application (App) that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify all buildings and roads within South-East zone has been launched  by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company [EEDC]
Addressing newsmen during the commemoration of GIS Day in Enugu, EEDC Manager of GIS Project, Mr Uche Anyalewechi, said that the geo-spatial address database App contains all buildings and roads in the South-East extracted from high-resolution satellite imagery.
Anyalewechi said that the new App, which is known as “Kpakpando’’ when translated means the moon, had each building uniquely identified with a Property Identification Number (PID) developed from the Natural Area Coding system (NAC).
According to him, the PIDs are physically tagged on each building for ease of reference, adding, “EEDC has completed the creation of an addressing solution by developing an address searching, routing and navigation App known as “Kpakpando’’.
Kpakpando, he went on, will solve the problems of tracing an irregular and incomplete building numbers and road names in the South-East geopolitical zone covering  Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.
He further explained that “In EEDC, this application will eliminate the challenges relating to untraceable customer electricity bills and customers without addresses in the billing database.
“It will also solve the problem of suspended customers, accounts found in multiple addresses, while with this universal address solution, all mail pieces can be automatically sorted from world level to final household mail boxes.
“All Global Positioning Systems (GPS) can leverage on Kpakpando App to provide door-to-door navigation services everywhere, and all news reports will have the simplest and most accurate reference of the location of any event in the geopolitical zone,’’.