TeleEye protects Google-backed SA solar farm

South Africans accustomed to increasingly-severe rolling electricity black-outs no doubt saw a ray of hope in the coming online in October last year of the Jasper Solar Energy Project. The 96 megawatt photovoltaic power station is located near Kimberley, Northern Cape, counts Google as an investor and is set to power up to 80 000 electricity-starved South African homes. Protecting the assets of often unmanned solar farms is where remote CCTV monitoring comes into its own. After being rolled-out ...