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Sabah Electricity (SE) Outage Reporting

Turning vague customer reports into usable field locations

Executive Summary

Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd rebranded to Sabah Electricity, commonly shortened to SE. For outage reporting, the operational problem remains practical: customers often describe affected places using kampung names, house references, road turns, and nearby landmarks.

Those descriptions can be clear to the customer but still incomplete for a control room or field crew. KodLokasi gives each report a district-coded, 10 m location reference that can be shared through the Careline, customer service channels, work orders, and field coordination.

The Challenge: Turning Reports into Field Work

Utility Area

Sabah

Wide service coverage

Report Channel

15444

SE Careline

Main Challenge

Location

Field reference

Timeline of Events

Outage Reported

A customer reports a power outage through SE customer service channels

Location Clarification

The report includes a kampung name, nearby shop, road bend, or transformer description, but not a clean field point

Crew Handoff

Dispatch still has to translate the description into a location that repair crews can find and record

The Location Identification Problem

Common customer descriptions can be useful, but they still leave room for interpretation:

×

Power is out near the old shop lots

×

The pole is behind our kampung road junction

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The issue is near the government office, before the bridge

The KodLokasi Solution

Imagine a Different Scenario

A customer reports an outage and includes one KodLokasi code: SBKK.24.17X. From that code, SE can see Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, and a 10 m location cell. The same reference can follow the report from customer service to dispatch and field crew.

1. District Context

The "SBKK" prefix identifies Sabah and Kota Kinabalu, so the report begins with administrative context

2. Precise Field Point

The "24.17" grid reference points to a specific 10 m x 10 m cell instead of a broad neighbourhood or landmark

3. Cleaner Work Order

Customer service, dispatch, and field teams can carry the same code through the ticket instead of rewriting directions

4. Better Pattern Detection

Nearby reports can be grouped by location so teams can distinguish a single-house issue from a wider feeder or transformer problem

Projected Impact with KodLokasi

Without KodLokasi

  • ×Customer describes the area by landmarks
  • ×Operator asks follow-up questions to locate the issue
  • ×Crew receives directions that may need local interpretation
  • ×Nearby reports are harder to group confidently
  • ×Work order location depends on free-text notes

With KodLokasi

  • ✓Precise 10 m x 10 m location reference
  • ✓District context visible in the code
  • ✓One shared reference from report to field work
  • ✓Clearer grouping of nearby outage reports
  • ✓Less dependence on landmark-based explanations
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