Scottish Power signs £1.4m deal with Logica

Scottish Power is investing £1.4m in a mobile asset management system to be implemented by Logica.

The contract is part of the utility's ongoing, £6m project to eliminate paper-based reporting on assets such as cabling and transmission towers. Logica will roll-out a mobile system from Conic Systems - an Edinburgh-based company recently acquired by Tadpole - that will allow Scottish Power to update the way it collects and stores information on all overhead and underground hardware.

Stephen Stewart, the project's manager at Scottish Power, said: "Scottish Power is leading the way in asset management in the utility industry."

He explained that field engineers will be issued with handheld computers fitted with geographical mapping software, so they can update the company's databases quickly and accurately.

Stewart added that the first stage of the roll-out will be completed by the middle of next year.