The City of Ekurhuleni in South Africa’ s Gauteng Province is benefitting from Huawei’ s cybersecure Wi-Fi systems as it looks to digitalise core industries
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The City of Ekurhuleni in South Africa’ s Gauteng Province is benefitting from Huawei’ s cybersecure Wi-Fi systems as it looks to digitalise core industries
The City of Ekurhuleni( COE), located in South Africa’ s Gauteng Province, is situated to the east of Johannesburg and southeast of the country’ s administrative capital Pretoria and is widely recognised as one of the country’ s most urbanised and industrially developed core economic zones.
As South Africa’ s third-largest metropolitan area, COE is home to some of South Africa’ s top-tier educational and healthcare resources, a highly skilled workforce and a robust manufacturing and service sector, earning it the reputation of being“ the engine room of South Africa’ s economy”.
As the nation’ s smart city initiatives begin gathering speed, COE is looking to accelerate its digital transformation with stable, efficient and secure network infrastructure emerging as a key pillar of this transformation.
Time for a change Establishing reliable, state-of-the-art energy systems is going to be one of the key enablers of COE’ s modernisation. In recent years, digital infrastructure has started to be embedded across energy systems around the world. Energy companies, whose traditional operations are typified by manual inspections and labour-intensive
50 March 2026