68 Excavators of Water Management Dept Equipped with GPS

68 excavators belonging to Jakarta Water Management Sub-Department are equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS). It is aimed to avoid tool misuse.

We call it SISTrack. Red light means engine off  while for green light means machine on

Head of Unit Equipment and Supplies (Alkal) for Jakarta Water Management Department, Aris Nandika disclosed the GPS functioned to facilitate the monitoring use of the equipment. Any equipment used will be monitored on computers alkal UP Office at Jalan Perintis Kemerdekaan II, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta.

“To avoid any misuse, it can be monitored from here," he said, Sunday (11/1).

Aside that, the excavator operating time machine can also be detected. "We call it SISTrack. Red light means engine off  while for green light means machine on," he explained.

Nandika added that he is still updating that sophisticated system, thus people can access it. "The tool can't be operated randomly," he uttered.

The installed equipments are amphibi big-sized excavator (18 units), medium-sized (3 units), small-sized (8 units), mini-sized (7 units), long-arm type (23 units), standard type (8 units), mini- and small-sized (2 units) and driger (3 units).