Africa is a continent known for its ingenuity. To solve South Africa's electricity challenges, CT LAB — the developers and manufacturers of the VECTO System — envisioned a new approach to power monitoring and management. . With the rise of broadband sampling, GPS time synchronicity, broadband connectivity, IoT and low voltage, broadband Current Transformers & Voltage Transformers, we saw the potential for a shift from traditional thinking.What if the solution was a grid-wide fleet of synchronized devices with comprehensive monitoring & remote management capabilities that could monitor and manage all grid data in real-time?What could happen when synchronised, networked, general-purpose computing power was brought to the edge of the grid network?Imagine a fleet of monitoring & management devices, deployed throughout your electricity-grid. Each device streaming energy data to a central data-store, providing near real-time event classification and grouping.Imagine a monitoring device, analysing full sample rate electrical waveforms, in memory, in real-time, against A.I. learned event patterns. Configured to trigger alerting, response and protection mechanisms as the events happen.Imagine a fleet of thousands of these interconnected devices, collaborating with each other as events happen, triggering grid management and protection protocols, in real-time.The journey has been tough, but with VECTO, we've delivered just that.