Electrical Safety for Control Rooms

In control rooms of data centers, safety is the top priority. The employees in the control room focus on detecting errors quickly in alarm situations. Technologies like insulation monitoring devices enhance control room operations by ensuring early detection of electrical issues, reducing risks to critical systems. Our technology makes the monitoring of this critical infrastructure even more straightforward and more effective. Continuous residual current monitoring allows control room staff to oversee power system performance in real-time, ensuring maximum efficiency and safety. Our communications solutions provide you with information on the status of the electrical safety and power supply of your IT environment. This communications software can be accessed anytime and anywhere. This means that not only does the technical monitoring the system onsite have access, but the management team may be miles away but needs to check on the system.

This also allows for more effective monitoring of other critical applications in Industry 4.0, logistics and supply, and more. The benefit is immediate information about critical statuses and the resulting risks, thus the fastest possible reaction to avoid critical system statuses.

Recurrent testing is also essential to ensuring systems are at peak performance. Another valuable technology developed by Bender is the EDS series which offers automatic ground fault location. Automatic identification of the faulted circuit eliminates the need to manually “hunt” for a ground fault's location and allows the rest of the power system to operate normally. By employing a ground fault locator, control rooms can quickly identify electrical faults, minimizing downtime and maintaining operational safety. There is no longer a need to sequentially de-energize loads.  

When a ground fault occurs, its presence is detected by our insulation monitoring device (IMD), which signals that there is a fault and begins to send an identifiable current signal into the power system. This then activates the EDS device. The EDS is a multichannel detector connected to measuring current transformers (CTs). The CTs monitor feeders or loads in a zero-sequence fashion (all load conductors pass through the CT window) and are sensitive to the locator pulse, which only flows to the fault. The EDS reports the fault location to the IMD, displaying the information on its LCD and communications interface. This all occurs without the need for operator intervention. This saves time and money and ensures the overall electrical safety of the data center and its systems.