Peri Edison Gurusinga et al., International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research, 11(11), November 2023, 357 – 362 357 ABSTRACT Animals’ interference into operation centers has become major headaches for some companies. Although it is a trivial case, the animals’ interference has disrupted major operations of the company. The article takes case of an Indonesian utility company, PN, that has challenges to distribute electricity to nationwide, especially in the rural areas, mountain, and forest areas, and thousand islands. Those areas are surrounded by animal presences that might trespass and interference into distribution sites such as transmission lines and transformers. The common presence of animals’ interference was found such as snakes, birds, and squirrels have created blackouts in some areas. The article proposes the use of intelligence cameras and RFID systems, along with preventive devices to assist animal trespassing in the distribution area. The article takes pilot of project in Payakumbuh area that is in West Sumatera, that has high animal interferences to the distribution system. Since the last decade, PN has promoted digital transformation in all her business units. The use of digital technology is expected to provide solution reference for animal interfere cases around Indonesia area, considering that each area in Indonesia has an unique animal interference that might differ from other area. Key words: Animal interference, distribution center, transmission lines and transformer area, animal preventive devices, intelligence cameras and RFID system. 1. INTRODUCTION Securing the operation sites is an essential task that needs to be taken by all companies. Securing sites has the objective of removing unwanted objects that may interfere with the current operation [1]. The article takes case of a state-owned energy company, PN, in Indonesia that has installed many distribution sites such as transmission lines and transformers in far remote areas around Indonesia. Indonesia is surrounded with many mountains, forests, islands, and remote area with few inhabitants. This situation makes electricity distribution and maintenance require special attention [2] . It is exacerbated due to the presence of surrounded animals that frequently trespass and interfere into transmission lines and transformers areas. Their presence has caused frequent blackouts and major damage to both transmission lines and transformers. Different areas may have different types of animal trespassing, and it makes the operation and maintenance case of distribution area become difficult. The article takes the case of Payakumbuh area that has the highest animal trespassing cases recorded (PN interference cases) in 2021, as high as 271, and 2022 as high as 80 cases (see Fig.1 statistics of common animal trespassing cases in major area in Sumatera). The trespassing case has created many interruptions to transformer operation. Figure 1: Statistics the common animal trespassing in Indonesia in Sumatera area. The comparison of the common animal trespassing cases in similar records are shown below: Figure 2: Percentage of common animal trespassing in similar records Preventing Animals Interference using Intelligence Camera and RFID System Peri Edison Gurusinga 1 , Gunawan Wang 2 1 PT PLN (Persero) Pusdiklat UPDL Tuntungan Medan, Indonesia, E-mail: edison.gurusinga@pln.co.id. 2 Information System Management Department, BINUS Graduate Program, Master of Information System Management, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta 11480. E-mail: gwang@binus.edu Received Date: October 1, 2023 Accepted Date: October 26, 2023 Published Date : November 07, 2023 ISSN 2347 - 3983 Volume 11. No.11, November 2023 International Journal of Emerging Trends in Engineering Research Available Online at http://www.warse.org/IJETER/static/pdf/file/ijeter0611112023.pdf https://doi.org/10.30534/ijeter/2023/0611112023