Operating and maintaining your electrical installation is business-critical and as electrical power is invisible, it is a risky activity.
This is why, operators or facility manager have to check and monitor their electrical installation by doing routine walkthrough visits, detecting electrical issues, performing regular maintenance and monitoring remotely all the relevant power system parameters and assets status.
However, unexpected events may occur, with sometimes fatal consequences. Further to targeted studies, we observed that the lack of reactiveness is a recurrent root cause which prevents:
• To detect and identify the issues.
• To make the appropriate corrective action decision.
• To perform with efficiency the troubleshooting action.
Today, to solve these issues, supervision solutions as SCADA systems may be used, but present some limits:
• They require to be automation and even IT expert to feel at ease with their usage, maintenance or upgrade, which is not the case of all operators or facility manager.
• They are not always provided by the electrical system manufacturer, and some critical data to monitor may be missing due to lack of expertise.
• They are very expensive, so electrical installations are not yet equipped with them.