Student-Wise brings the whole Student Digz precinct onto a single heads-up display: incoming power, the generator, water pressure from the top floor to the basement, heat pumps and geysers, lights, pumps and the month's billing, with fair monthly power and water allotments for every room.
Concept by TITC Africa Infraco and BIG Energy. Network figures are from TITC’s read-only scan on 12 November 2026; energy, water and generator figures are example data for illustration. Student-Wise is not a Student Digz, Modus or Citiq product.
The network panel is from TITC’s read-only scan today. The energy, water and generator panels are the planned Student-Wise layer, shown with example data. Click a building to drill in. Switch the scenario to see a grid outage or an upper-floor pressure drop.
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Bulk supply from City Power measured at the incomer, split per building, with demand against the notified maximum demand and early warning of dips, phase loss and overloads.
Running or standby, fuel level, run hours, ATS position and weekly test results. Non-essential loads shed automatically when the generator is on.
Top, middle and low-zone pressure in every building, booster-pump duty and standby, and alarms before the top floors run dry.
Roof tanks, basement reservoir and fire reserve levels, inflow against consumption, and night-flow analysis that points to leaking toilets and taps.
Every heat pump and geyser bank in one grid: at temperature, heating, off or faulted. Pre-heat before load-shedding, and heat when the tariff is lowest.
Corridors, stairwells, perimeter, garden, study hall and gym on schedules, photocells and motion, so lights burn only when someone needs them.
Bulk electricity and water bills reconciled against sub-metered room usage, so unaccounted power and non-revenue water show up the same week, not at month end.
Each room gets a fair monthly allowance of power and water. Residents see their balance, and the house team sees who is ahead of pace before it becomes a problem.
Warnings go to the right person: maintenance for a tripped pump, the house mother for a room over allotment, management for a generator low on fuel.
Student Digz combines Dudley Heights, Argyle Centre, Baker House and Skyways into one precinct at 11 Hospital Street, Braamfontein, about 1.6 km from Wits and 2 km from UJ. Student-Wise treats it as one site with four metered buildings.
Largest building in the precinct.
480Beds · example split~109 Wi-Fi APs · 6 switches (TITC scan)
Tall block: upper-zone pressure matters most.
290Beds · example split~41 Wi-Fi APs · 4 switches (TITC scan)
Mixed room types.
180Beds · example split~37 Wi-Fi APs · 2 switches (TITC scan)
Smallest of the four.
150Beds · example split~31 Wi-Fi APs · 1 switch + 1 extra (TITC scan)
Address as listed on the Student Digz tenant-registration portal; listings also mention Kotze Street access and Baker House on the corner of De Korte and Hospital Streets. Wi-Fi figures from TITC’s read-only network scan on 12 November 2026. Bed counts are an example split of the 1,100-student working figure, to be confirmed with Student Digz.
TITC is the precinct’s internet provider. A read-only scan on 12 November 2026 (08:51–08:55, nothing changed) shows a strong network to build on, and confirms that the building plant is not yet connected to it.
Bitco/DFA fibre into one TITC core router, with a 1G uplink to each of the four buildings. 1,554 DHCP leases at the time of the scan.
EdgeSwitch 24 PoE switches on key floors, all online, powering about 225 UniFi access points across rooms, corridors, laundry and common areas. About 540 Wi-Fi clients on 5 November, evening peaks near 640.
No energy meters, inverters, UPS, generator controllers, pump or geyser controllers, BMS or lighting controllers. That is the gap Student-Wise fills with new metering and sensors.
The biometric access-control PC was last seen around 19 October; the readers are not visible on this network.
One recorder is visible on the LAN; the cameras are probably on a separate network that TITC cannot see.
ESP32/ESP8266-type devices, mostly behind the Skyways server cabinet. Laundry payment, relays, sensors or student gadgets? A question for Student Digz.
Groups of switches restarted together around 10 November and 29 October, which often points to a power interruption. Unconfirmed, and exactly what incomer metering would answer.
Student-Wise gateways can sit on a separate VLAN of this network, isolated from student Wi-Fi.
No device names, addresses or client details of residents are used in Student-Wise material.
Water and electricity are included in the rent. Student-Wise keeps it that way while putting a fair monthly allowance on each room, so a few heavy users don't drive the bill for 1,100 students.
Per room or per bed, per month, with different values for winter and summer if needed.
Usage against the day of the month: on track, ahead of pace, or over.
Gentle reminders at 75% and 90%. What happens past 100% (top-up, warning, management review) is Student Digz's policy choice.
Dashboards show room codes, not names. Resident identity stays in Modus, in line with POPIA.
Illustrative calculator. Tariffs are placeholders, not City of Johannesburg or City Power rates. Room count uses the 550-room working figure.
Student Digz already onboards and manages students on Modus, and prepaid sub-metering is the job of Citiq. Student-Wise doesn't replace either. It adds the building layer and ties the three together.
| Area | Modus (existing) | Citiq (metering) | Student-Wise (new) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applications, documents, IDs, leases | Yes: digital onboarding, uploads, e-signing | — | Reads room occupancy only (planned) |
| Resident app & staff portal | Yes | Tenant portal | Allotment balance shown via existing channels (planned) |
| Room power and water metering | Integrates metering | Prepaid sub-meters, allowances, vouchers | Pulls usage via planned API link for allotments and recovery |
| Incomer, generator, pumps, tanks, pressure | — | — | Yes: live plant monitoring and alarms |
| Heat pumps, geysers, lighting control | — | — | Yes: schedules, load-shedding pre-heat, faults |
| Bulk bill vs sub-meter reconciliation | — | Room-level data | Yes: losses and non-revenue water, weekly |
Integration with Modus and Citiq is planned and subject to their APIs and agreements. Table reflects publicly described features as at November 2026.
TITC already provides the precinct's internet. Student-Wise uses that backbone with a small edge gateway per building, the same approach as EnergyWise for lodges, homes and businesses.
Read-only network scan (done 12 Nov) and a walk-through of DBs, plant rooms, tanks and the generator.
Energy meters on incomers and building DBs, pressure transducers per zone, tank level and flow sensors.
Edge gateways on the TITC network, local logging if the link drops, encrypted outbound link.
Citiq room usage and Modus room occupancy via planned API links.
Control room, alerts, monthly reports and allotment management for the Student Digz team.
A pilot on one building proves the readings and the savings before the other three follow.
Incomer and DB metering, zone pressure, tanks, generator status, the control room.
All four buildings, heat pumps and geysers, lighting schedules, alert routing.
Citiq and Modus links, per-room allotments, monthly reconciliation reports.
Load-shifting, solar and battery options, tariff and leak savings tracked month by month.
