Continuous thermal monitoring with the Brightlayer Industrial remote monitoring application

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There are hundreds to thousands of electrical connections in every electrical room, and each one is critical to reliability and equipment health. Manual thermography audits are labor- and time-intensive and involve deploying staff across the site, often including hazardous areas. Despite these costs and risks, manual audits provide, at best, a quarterly snapshot of connection health, which isn’t sufficient to support trends analysis or preventive maintenance. This makes unplanned downtime more likely. Recent sensor technology solutions can now capture continuous readings from equipment. These solutions deliver a huge volume of raw data without context or analysis so the work of identifying a bad connection or spotting a trend falls to maintenance staff. The Brightlayer Industrial remote monitoring application changes this dynamic by performing sensor-based continuous thermal monitoring requiring no staff interaction with gear to take readings. The system captures and retains sensor data, displaying trend lines for each connection that can be used to identify opportunities for preventive maintenance. The application sends alerts and notifications for any temperature outside of the defined temperature range, identifying the specific connection and bucket. The application also displays at-a-glance status of all monitored equipment, providing maintenance teams with clear, continuous metrics for understanding their equipment. This greatly streamlines workflow for maintenance teams, all while supporting the added insight desired for electrical reliability goals. Operations and maintenance teams can deploy the appropriate staff, PPE and tools into the field to perform preventive maintenance before the equipment fails, significantly reducing the likelihood of unplanned downtime. Learn more about the remote monitoring application: www.eaton.com/IndustrialRemoteMonitoring