The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of ilorin, has unveiled a prototype anti-theft device capable of remotely monitoring and detecting customers stealing electricity.
The Acting Head of the Department, Dr Mudathir Akorede told newsmen today in Ilorin that the device could also cut off electricity supply to the premises of customers stealing electricity.
Akorede said that processes of filing application for patenting the invention had commenced through the university’s Laboratory to Product Centre.
The don explained that the device was developed by himself and some students of the Department, saying that the idea followed the discovery that most people use electricity without paying for it.
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