WELCOME TO THE CITY OF MATLOSANA CITY OF PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

DRAKENSTEIN MUNICIPALITY Partners with Schneider Electric and Altek for sophisticated SCADA system

The City of Matlosana Municipality is situated approximately 164 km South West of Johannesburg, strategically located on the N12 Treasure Route, which is the North West Province’s primary tourism corridor.

The scenic N12 starts from Mpumalanga and is the gateway to the Western Cape Province. The route takes you from eMalahleni, to the vibrant Gauteng Province and the Sterkfontein Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, and continues to Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Kimberley, Beaufort West, up until George.

It is the Transformation of the N12 Treasure Route that has unlocked regional opportunities and resulted in massive activity and mobility along the Matlosana portion of the corridor. It has a multi-dimensional character that has created employment, enhanced commuter movement, enhanced investment opportunities, increased economic activity, etc.

WHY VISIT THE CITY OF MATLOSANA?

Create unforgettable memories at our quality business and leisure accommodation venues which include conferencing, wedding and spa facilities. The City has a wealth of attractions for visitors:

• Adventure tourism

• Wildlife tourism

• Medical tourism

• Wellness tourism

Create unforgettable memories at our quality business and leisure accommodation venues which include conferencing, wedding and spa facilities.

Matlosana As A Medical Hub

To us health care is of paramount importance as a healthy city is productive and constitutes prosperity. We boast well-developed medical facilities, which enhances and promotes the competitive advantage of Matlosana as a major Medical Hub in the North West Province. Services include: general and private medical fascilities, casualty/trauma and dental services. Most clinics focus on primary health care services.

The city prides itself on having five private hospitals, two government hospitals, including the largest state hospital in the North West Province and 15 clinics including mobile clinics. It also boasts the only fully contained oncology unit in the North West Province, which offers a comprehensive service at four pathological laboratories and has the latest MRI scanner at the radiology unit.

Prime Land For Development

N12 Development Route was identified by the municipality as a flagship project for golden opportunities in the following sectors: housing, business, industrial, heritage, mining, tourism, sport as well as recreation.

Agriculture

Drakenstein Municipality is currently partnering with global energy leader, Schneider Electric and system integrator partner Altek to upgrade its 25-year-old SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to ETAP, a model-driven electrical SCADA software solution which is set to improve fault finding, maintenance and services.

Agriculture is one of the mainstays of Matlosana, which proudly boasts a region rich with agricultural potential. The emphasis is focused on field crops, such as maize, wheat, sorghum, sunflowers, etc... (climatically suitable with a 70% probability of production success).

communication network upgrade which now sees all its substations communicating through a wireless ethernet or a fibre backbone. The previous SCADA system only allowed for radio frequency (RF) communication.

“As a municipality, we will be well ahead of our peers. As ETAP’s software continues to evolve it will readily meet our ongoing system needs”

- Herman Rossouw, Senior Engineering Technician, Drakenstein Municipality.

Situated in the Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape, the municipality awarded Schneider Electric and implementation partner, Altek the contract following a rigorous tender process.

Infrastructure Development

Aside from attracting investment, the N12 Treasure Route connects communities to the economic hub of Matlosana City. The improved road infrastructure changes the lives of the City’s citizens making it easier to access employment opportunities and other services.

Shopping Experience

The ETAP SCADA solution met the requirements of the municipality, which ultimately aims to significantly improve fault finding, predictive and preventative equipment maintenance and overall customer service delivery. Moreover, the system needs to integrate with Drakenstein Municipality’s existing infrastructure and the GIS (geographic information system) mapping solution.

Shoppers can also be spoiled for choice between Matlosana Mall, City Mall, Flamwood Walk Shopping Mall, Tower Mall and other leading shopping centres in Matlosana.

The ETAP SCADA solution met the requirements of the municipality, and ultimately aims to significantly improve fault finding, predictive and preventative equipment maintenance and overall customer service delivery.

System ready

Before commencing with implementation of the ETAP SCADA solution, Drakenstein Municipality completed an eight-year

“We couldn’t embark on a SCADA upgrade before implementing a new communication backbone. Now, with our network fully operational we have started deploying the new SCADA system. As a municipality, we will be well ahead of our peers, and as ETAP’s software continues to evolve it will readily meet our ongoing system needs,” explains Herman Rossouw, Senior Engineering Technician at Drakenstein Municipality.

Feature-rich

Agriculture is one of the mainstays of Matlosana, which proudly boasts a region rich with agricultural potential. The emphasis is focused on field crops, such as maize, wheat, sorghum, sunflowers, etc...

“The ETAP SCADA offering is software-neutral which allows it to overcome integration and interoperability issues, thus saving on costly equipment upgrades and project delays,” says Dwibin Thomas, Cluster Automation Leader at Schneider Electric.

“The ETAP SCADA system offers so many exciting features such as live insight into switching operations that provides us with valuable information on current loads and what you can and cannot move or implement on the system in order to safeguard equipment,” says Leon Laing, Manager: Planning and Customer Services (Electro-Technical Services Department) at Drakenstein Municipality.

“Also, as it integrates with GIS, the ETAP system will be able to accurately pinpoint which customers are being affected by power failure which will allow us to drastically cut down on fault finding and turnaround times. The ETAP solution will also utilise Drakenstein Municipality’s communication backbone to provide remote access to operators, again improving on system monitoring. Moreover, it will provide preventative maintenance schedules which will mitigate potential equipment failure and costly repair”.

National Fresh Produce Market

The Market is the property of the City of Matlosana and was established in 1980 and it is ranked 8th out of 17 Fresh Markets in the country according to turnover.

With five Market agents, the market supplies customers as far as Botswana, Kimberly and Vryburg.

“With the ETAP systems’ digital twin technology we will also be able to simulate maintenance processes. The solution uses historical and current data to simulate maintenance and upgrades to the system. This will ensure that when we perform maintenance, no unnecessary unplanned system tripping will occur,” explains Rossouw.

Contact Details

Address: Cnr Braamfisher & OR Tambo Streets, Klerksdorp

Tel: 018 487 8000/ 018 487 8800

Email: communications@ klerksdorp.org

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The Drakenstein Municipality ETAP SCADA project is earmarked for completion by 2025. “When the project is complete, we hope to benefit from a sophisticated SCADA system that will not only deliver Return On Investment (ROI), but also enable us to react quicker to outages and failures, reducing fault finding and ultimately enhance customer experience,” says Laing.