Figure 1: The value of digital lightning protection, why not just “lightning protection”?
Figure 1: The value of digital lightning protection, why not just “lightning protection”?

This article is a knowledge article that continues the digital lightning protection series.

The pictures in this article have been re-conceived independently according to the article's theme. All pictures are centered around the knowledge points of this article, and cross-article general templates are no longer used.

1. Why is digital lightning protection not just lightning protection?

Traditional lightning protection focuses on reducing equipment damage caused by lightning strikes and surges.

On this basis, digital lightning protection further turns events, status and processing into data.

Figure 2: Chapter 10_fig02
Figure 2: Chapter 10_fig02

2. Digital lightning protection first improves reliability

Digital lightning protection records what impact the site has encountered, whether the protection device is still effective, and whether the grounding status is reliable.

This data can help operation and maintenance personnel detect risks in advance.

Figure 3: Chapter 10_fig03
Figure 3: Chapter 10_fig03

3. Digital lightning protection is also the entrance to electrical safety data

Lightning surges may co-occur with risks such as equipment abnormalities, power quality, and grounding changes.

Lightning protection data is combined with other electrical data to form a more complete safety picture.

Figure 4: Chapter 10_fig04
Figure 4: Chapter 10_fig04

4. Data precipitation will bring management value

Long-term lightning protection data can identify high-risk areas, high-frequency failure sites and weak operation and maintenance links.

This information can reversely optimize inspection, spare parts and modification strategies.

Figure 5: Chapter 10_fig05
Figure 5: Chapter 10_fig05

5. From digital lightning protection to electrical safety base

Micro IoT believes that digital lightning protection is an important entry point for the digitalization of electrical safety.

Starting from lightning protection, it gradually expanded to power distribution status, equipment status, energy efficiency status and safety warning.

Figure 6: Chapter 10_fig06
Figure 6: Chapter 10_fig06

Conclusion: From single point protection to long-term status management

The core of digital lightning protection is not to rebrand traditional lightning protection, but to move the lightning protection system from static installation to long-term status management.

When events, status, trends and actions can all be recorded, the lightning protection system truly has the ability to continuously improve.

Micro-IoT technology will continue to share content related to intelligent lightning protection, electrical safety early warning, digital power distribution, energy supervision and industrial Internet of Things.

Micro-IoT/FEXLINK uses data to reconstruct energy efficiency and electrical safety.

Where there is electricity, there is micro-IoT.