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SKT and Korea Electric Power Safety Corporation Partner to Ensure Communications Don't Interrupt During Power Outages

Google 우선 소스Published2017.10.18 11:18
Provide emergency generators during electrical facility safety inspections to maintain optimal communication quality.
Precision diagnosis and management of electrical safety for 110,000 telecommunications facilities… Development of an ICT-based safety management system


SK Telecom announced on the 18th that it signed a business agreement with the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation for 'exchange and mutual cooperation in electrical safety management technology.'

Through this business agreement, the two companies will collaborate to maintain communication services within buildings during electrical safety inspections, collaborate on consulting and precise diagnosis of electrical safety management of communication equipment, and promote the expansion of an ICT-based electrical safety management system.

SK Telecom plans to focus more on communication quality through this agreement. The Korea Electric Safety Corporation conducts safety inspections of electrical facilities every three years, and electricity is shut off during these inspections.

Because of this, in some buildings, power outages caused the communication relay facilities installed inside the building to not work, causing customers to experience inconvenience in using communication services.

However, with this agreement, SK Telecom will be able to receive advance notice of safety inspection schedules from the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation. SK Telecom plans to provide emergency generators for use during power outages during safety inspections. This will minimize customer inconvenience by ensuring the continuation of telecommunications services.

Additionally, the two companies will conduct consulting for precise electrical safety diagnosis and systematic management of approximately 110,000 SK Telecom communication facilities, including switches and repeaters. In addition, we plan to cooperate in the development and expansion of an electrical safety management system based on ICT technologies such as the Internet of Things.

An SK official stated, "SK Telecom is the first domestic mobile carrier to sign an agreement with the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation (KESCO) to manage electrical facility safety." Kang Jong-ryeol, head of SK Telecom's infrastructure division, said, "This agreement establishes a foundation for systematic electrical facility safety management while ensuring the best possible communication quality."

Kim Lee-won, technical director of the Korea Electric Safety Corporation, stated, “The technology environment in the energy industry is rapidly changing based on ICT,” and added, “Through this agreement, we will innovate the electrical facility safety management method that has been focused on ‘post-recovery’ to focus on ‘preemptive prevention.’”
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