KPCL is a highly IT Savy company among the public sector units in the state at large and power sector in particular and has the distinction of being the first state owned company in the power sector to have established SHAKTINET- a satellite based communication network through VSATs among all its power stations and Bangalore. Local Area Networks have been established at all Project locations and about 800 officials have been wired to corporate office with reliable VSAT back bone. All the activities of the corporation are computerized and KPCL has the unique distinction among power utilities of establishing voice and data communication between its projects and Bangalore through the new generation DAMA V-SATS on KPTCL’s "VIDYUTNET". The computer services department of KPCL with fully dedicated engineers and software professionals has developed and implemented all the software required for its business activities and is geared to offer consultancy services in the field of software development and networking.

Some of the software developed in-house are :

• Fuel Management system
• Human resource Information System
• Cash and Compilation Management system
• Establishment
• Integrated Inventory Management System
• Public Deposit System
• Generation Management System
• Billing software for Bellary Thermal power station
• Medicine Procurement system
  
  

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• Established 2 MBPS MPLS circuits between Bangalore and two of its major projects viz Raichur Thermal Power Station and Bellary Thermal power station for speedy communication.
• Extension of the above facility to other project locations in the near future.
• Established Video Conferencing facility at Major project locations.
• Exploring possibilities of establishing SCADA facility at Corporate office, Bangalore for real time data monitoring.
• Providing reliable communication facility at major project locations through Fibre Optic Cabling using state of the art technology.
  
  The computer services department has set for itself very high standards and firmly believes that "It is not the IT Infrastructure of a few crores that needs to be managed but the business that gets transacted over the network that needs to be managed".