This project aims to further develop and enhance the learning gained through past IFI projects by piloting a limited number of monitors at substation location. The scope of the pilot rollout will be structure as follows;

Stage 1

Limited rollout to unmanned substation locations

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the monitors at detecting copper theft and tampering of key infrastructure

   

• Develop installation program

   

• Understand how the monitors interact with substation environments

   

• Evaluate the performance of the monitors and how they could be developed further

Stage 2

Following successful completion of stage 1, a further limited rollout to allow for the monitors to be integrated into the corporate security system

• Integration into SCADA or internal security system

   

• Detailed understanding how the units could be integrated into BaU policy

Benefits

The following success criteria has been established

• The successful and reliable detection of copper theft and tampering at key substation locations either through test simulations or actual events.

   

• Low incidences of mal-operation and spurious alarms

   

• Quantifying the benefits associated with detecting when key earth infrastructure is removed or tampered with

   

• Integrate the solution into BaU