Projects

Technology Projects

What each kind of job involves: the problem we find, what we put in, and what changes. Images marked illustrative are not photographs of our own work.

Patch panel and switches in a wall cabinet
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Network installation

Small-business office network

Location
Solwezi District
Problem
Desks on a tangle of extension leads and a home router, so the internet drops whenever someone prints.
Solution
Every desk cabled to a labelled patch panel, one managed switch, business Wi-Fi with a separate guest network, and a drawing left with the owner.
Equipment
Cat6 structured cabling, 24-port managed switch, business access points
Result
A network the owner can explain to the next technician.
Security camera on a building exterior
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CCTV installation

Retail shop camera system

Location
Solwezi District
Problem
Stock going missing and no way to know when or how.
Solution
Cameras covering the till, the door and the stockroom, thirty days of recording, and the owner watching from their phone at home.
Equipment
IP cameras, NVR with 30-day storage, phone app
Result
The owner sees the shop from anywhere.
Two technicians setting up computers and a router in a freshly painted office
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Business IT setup

New office, from boxes to working desks

Location
Solwezi District
Problem
New premises, new computers still in boxes, and staff starting Monday.
Solution
Computers unboxed, set up and secured, a shared printer, a router configured properly, and a backup that runs without anyone remembering to.
Equipment
Workstations, network printer, business router, backup drive
Result
Staff sat down and worked on day one.
Pupils in uniform at computers in a classroom with an access point on the wall
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Wi-Fi installation

School computer room and staff Wi-Fi

Location
Solwezi District
Problem
A donated computer room with no network, and teachers sharing one phone hotspot.
Solution
Coverage across classrooms and the staff room, filtering appropriate for pupils, and a computer room that the teacher can reset in a minute.
Equipment
Access points, managed switch, content filter, lab imaging
Result
Lessons run without the teacher becoming the IT department.
Satellite dish mounted on a roof
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Starlink installation

Connectivity for a remote site

Location
North-Western Province
Problem
No fibre, weak mobile signal, and a business that needs to send invoices and take bookings.
Solution
A dish on a proper mount, clean power, and Wi-Fi that reaches the rooms.
Equipment
Starlink kit, roof mount, UPS, outdoor access points
Result
Reliable internet where there was none.
An administrator in a safety vest at a two-screen workstation in a site office
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Computer & server setup

Site office for an industrial contractor

Location
Solwezi District
Problem
Dusty, hot and off the main road, with power cuts that corrupt files.
Solution
Workstations with clean power, shared files that survive a power cut, and a support line that answers.
Equipment
Workstations, UPS units, shared storage, remote support
Result
Paperwork done on site, not driven to town.

Honesty note: we do not show a job we did not do. Until a client agrees to have their site photographed and named, cards describe the type of work only. Real projects, with dates and photographs, replace these as permission is given.

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