Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, together with local partner Encapsulated East Africa, and the Kenyan National Transport and Safety Authority, NTSA, recently deployed a new integrated modular data centre infrastructure solution to boost data centre performance and service delivery.
As part of its digital transformation strategy, the NTSA embarked on the modernisation of its Transport Integrated Management System, TIMS to allow citizens to experience maximum service efficiencies when registering their motor vehicles, and to promote a positive economic impact within the country.
Kenya established the NTSA in 2012 to manage vehicle growth within the country as well as the safety of drivers and pedestrians. The NTSA was later boosted with the addition of the TIMS electronic data platform, which allowed citizens to register their vehicles, transfer ownership, and obtain licence plates, amongst other services more easily.
This year, when the time came to deploy a revamped TIMS solution in response to the population’s growing demands, the agency realised that it was also the right time to upgrade its data centre equipment to provide the most reliable service for customers.
Following the request for proposal process, the NTSA selected Vertiv SmartRow infrastructure solution submitted by Vertiv and its local partner Encapsulated East Africa, a systems integrator and Vertiv diamond elite partner.
Rohan Patil, Vertiv’s Regional Manager for East Africa, concluded: “We were very pleased that the initial estimated 10-month rollout timeline was reduced to just six months. Our comprehensive integrated solutions portfolio not only significantly reduces deployment time but also streamlines the installation process, playing a key role in enhancing system reliability. This is particularly crucial in keeping pace with the rapid advancements in digitalisation our customers are facing.”
The Vertiv SmartRow is a self-contained data centre that simplifies IT deployments in indoor spaces. This solution allows customisation and scalability for capacity of up to 10 racks, integrated cooling, uninterruptible power supply, UPS, power distribution, fire suppression, and backup ventilation. The Vertiv SmartRow is factory integrated and evaluated, maximising installation speed while minimising installation cost.
The modular, scalable nature of the solution allowed the ICT department to right-size data centre equipment for lower energy utilisation and manage cooling and power distribution more efficiently.
The NTSA data centre modernisation project also led to improved customer service, with Kenyan citizens receiving a much faster and more accurate response to their inquiries, and with users now able to track service application status online, 24 hours a day. The TIMS system went from attempting to manage a queue of 60,000 drivers waiting for their applications to process, to zero now waiting in the queue as applications are now processed upon submission.
“The Vertiv solution eliminates the need to deal with multiple suppliers and integration challenges, and its compactness makes it an ideal fit in our current facility. With access control, CCTV, environmental monitoring, sensors, power, and cooling pre-integrated, installation and management became much easier and quicker.”
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