Case Study: Essential Energy’s Digital ID Transformation with IdentityONE
Essential Energy delivers electricity to 95% of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland. Essential Energy is pioneering the digital transformation in the energy sector with IdentityONE.
Challenges
In today’s fast-paced world, security is paramount for the energy sector and its community. By transitioning to Digital IDs, Essential Energy aims to enhance their personnel, cyber, and physical security, ensuring a safer and more efficient digital future.
Solutions
- Simplify: Streamline the issuance of ‘Essential Energy, Authorised Service Providers’ cards with a unique and secure Digital ID credential, easily downloaded to mobile devices.
- Secure: Use Digital IDs wherever you need physical IDs, and store information securely in Essential Energy’s digital environment.
- Manage: Digital ID security with PINs, passwords, and Face ID features.
- Instant: Eliminate the wait for physical cards. Digital IDs update instantly, making the process simpler, safer, and more secure.
- Reliability: Access Digital IDs even without phone data coverage, ensuring constant preparedness.
- Sustainable: Eliminate plastic waste. Digital IDs can be reused, replaced, cancelled, or onboarded without using any plastic.
Implementation
The Digital ID is compatible with all smartphone devices (iPhone, Android, and HHU devices) and leverages the powerful IdentityONE modules for Essential Energy:
- IdentityONE: The ultimate solution for issuing Digital IDs, backed by a robust cloud-hosted Data Manager.
- CaptureME: Seamlessly integrates with IdentityONE, allowing users to upload their photo ID and verification documents.
- IDmobile: Transforms smartphones into digital versions of traditional ID cards, similar to the NSW Government digital driver licenses.
To get started, users simply need to provide their email address, mobile number, and upload their proof of ID (identification photo and verification document) via the CaptureME online application.
Conclusion
By enthusiastically embracing Unicard’s digital identification solutions, this utility company is not only enhancing security and efficiency but also significantly contributing to sustainability. Essential Energy’s Digital Transformation with IdentityONE marks a significant step forward in the energy sector’s digital transformation, setting a benchmark for others to follow.
