Companies make a pitch for technological innovations
installing home systems, fleet tracking devices, fibre-to-home, satellite in homes and business monitoring systems.
“Any customer in Africa should be able to open the App on his or her phone and search for the nearest installer and the system will scan and allocate the nearest pre-vetted, trained and accredited installer to undertake the required installation once we launch services in that country.
“This is a very unique aspect which will create significant economies of scale, skill and expertise and improve productivity to companies and reduce installation costs for customers.
“We have registered more than 1000 highly-skilled installers in 17 countries in Africa and are targeting to grow this to 10 000 and creating equally the same entrepreneurial opportunities,” added Mr Moyo.
The Connected Car is not necessarily a new phenomenon in Africa, Zimbabwe included, as tracking services have been around for a while.
“However, we are re-engineering fleet management and personal vehicle management in a progressive and disruptive manner using our big data analytics platform.
“Companies are keen on enjoying nearly 25 percent fuel and maintenance savings over and above other services such as geo-fencing which reports vehicles that stray away from defined routes.
“Connected Car has been well received, particularly by insurance companies. They like the tracking device because it can give them a lot of information about driver behaviour, distance travelled, and mitigate against fraudulent claims.
“Governments in Africa are keen to use the technology to connect all pub- lic passenger carrying buses to monitor driver behaviour thereby reducing public transport accidents,” he said.
On the other hand, Connected Home is an integrated alarm and security system that has home energy automation features like remote light switches, power consumption moni- toring and air conditioner control.
Increasingly, businesses are adopting such technologies in order to reduce energy costs and improve security. Perhaps much of the impact has been felt through smart health innovations that reduce the cost of health systems through avoiding brick and mortar facilities.
All these products are being made possible by web-linked platforms.
It is understood that Cumii International is also exploring new technologies in agriculture. These are meant to make livestock tracking simpler and efficient.