Engineering that takes your assets personally.
Based in South Africa, Fonkiss is an African team specialising in electrical and power generation solutions — built on the belief that reliable infrastructure starts with people who actually understand it.
Who we are
Fonkiss specialises in delivering reliable, innovative and efficient solutions for electrical and power generation needs. With years of expertise in the field, we pride ourselves on providing outstanding service — whether it's for residential, commercial or industrial projects.
Our diverse team keeps its main focus on electrical and power generation solutions: substation automation, protection systems, SCADA, monitoring of critical assets, and engineering services from feasibility through commissioning.
We work across eight solution areas and nine product categories, bringing the same rigour to a single sensor as we do to a full monitoring or automation rollout.
Our values
Reliability first
We measure our work by whether it kept the lights on and the asset protected — not by how the paperwork reads.
Hands-on expertise
Years of field experience across generation, distribution and critical asset monitoring inform every recommendation we make.
Right-sized engineering
We specify what a site actually needs — no over-engineered systems, no underpowered shortcuts.
African, for Sub-Saharan Africa
Based in Edenvale, we understand the operating conditions, constraints and priorities of local energy and industry.
Core service lines
Everything Fonkiss delivers sits under one of these pillars, whatever the project's scale.
Substation Automation
IEC 61850 integration and bay/station-level control for modern and retrofit substations.
Protection & SCADA
Numerical protection schemes and real-time supervisory control across distributed assets.
Monitoring
Dissolved gas analysis, online/offline condition monitoring and early-warning alerting.
Heating
Process Heating Elements, Trace Heating Systems, Band Heaters, Cartridge Heaters.
Lighting
Custom built to meet local needs, CAD designs and IES\Light Distribution done for analysis and simulation.
Engineering Services
Feasibility studies, detailed design, commissioning and after-sales support.
Systems we monitor
Our monitoring capability spans the assets that keep a network or site running — so a fault gets caught as a signal, long before it becomes an outage.
Transformer Monitoring System
Continuous condition data on one of your most critical and capital-intensive assets.
Cable Monitoring System
Early detection of underground and low voltage cable faults.
Circuit Breaker Monitoring System
Real-time insight into the true condition of switching assets.
Rotating Machines Monitoring System
Condition monitoring for generators and other rotating plant.
Switchgear Monitoring System
Visibility over switchgear health to support proactive maintenance planning.
Based in South Africa and Cameroon, working across the continent
Fonkiss is headquartered at in Edenvale, South Africa — supporting energy and industry clients across Sub-Saharan Africa. with an office at Douala, Cameroon supporting industry clients in Central Africa.