Battery
Monitoring
Adequate monitoring of lead-acid batteries involves the real-time tracking of battery health and performance. While lead-acid batteries are a staple of critical power infrastructure due to their safety and reliability, failures can still happen.
When powering uninterrupted power supply (UPS) systems, these batteries are critical for ensuring that your facility remains operational during power disruptions, so maintaining their health is paramount.
Manual vs Automated
Battery Maintenance
Lead-acid batteries are essential components of UPS systems and generator sets, ensuring that your facility has power during unexpected outages. As with all chemistries, lead-acid batteries degrade over time.
Failures typically occur within several weeks, but can occur in as little as two days. Without proper monitoring, failures can go undetected and compromise your backup energy system without warning.
Manual Battery Maintenance
Active battery maintenance involves tasking personnel with manually checking each battery string one at a time with a handheld scanner.
Usually performed every 30-90 days, this practice negatively affects employee time, operational efficiency, and redundant costs while forfeiting equipment visibility for upwards of 90 days. With active maintenance practices, a critical string in you power system could be compromised at any point, and you wouldn’t know.
Automated Battery Maintenance
By continuously monitoring battery health, you can be alerted the moment a battery string fails, schedule preventive maintenance to replace batteries that are nearing the end of their life cycle, and confirm an adequate state of charge, ensuring that your backup systems remain operational without interruption.
Automated battery maintenance eliminates outage, reduces workload, allows users to further extend useful battery-life, and provides critical data continually.
Parameter’s lead-acid battery monitoring solutions is powered by Cellwatch Battery Monitoring™, the premier industry solution for passive battery maintenance in lead-acid and nickel-cadmium chemistries.
Our monitoring platform offers real-time, actionable insights to ensure that your backup power systems are always ready when you need them most.
With continuous monitoring, you’ll have the visibility needed to protect your batteries and ensure the reliability of your UPS systems.
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Cellwatch Battery Monitoring is designed specifically for almost all UPS applications. Cellwatch utilizes advanced measurement techniques designed to provide extremely accurate readings in the noisiest operating environment.
The technology has been perfected through multiple generations of design. We are now on our 6th measurement design where, combining 30 years of experience.
Cellwatch continuously monitors the entire battery system, including string and cell level voltage, ohmic value, current and temperature throughout the charge, discharge, and float periods.
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Receive real-time insights and alerts from across your entire operation. Cellwatch Central powers a secure and convenient multisite monitoring platform, allowing simple oversight of multiple facility back up power systems simultaneously.
The larger the enterprise, the more complex data analysis and battery management can be. Cellwatch Central simplifies it all by collecting data from multiple installation sites, integrating all battery data and performance information, and consolidating it into a single centralized system.
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For high-load and grid positive power systems, compliance at scale is key. Purpose-built for utility and substation application, Cellwatch Frontier™ is a turnkey solution for NERC standards compliance monitoring. This solution meets the PRC-005-6 battery maintenance requirements, making it easy and cost-effective to comply with these regulations.
Cellwatch Frontier tests substation batteries daily to ensure they will work when called upon. Frontier integrates into SNMP and SCADA using DNP3 or Modbus to centralize monitoring of every remote battery and integrate battery monitoring into existing maintenance procedures. With Cellwatch Frontier, battery experts are coordinated with field personnel, operations, and maintenance to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Data-Driven Decisions
Our central monitoring platform gives insight into battery conditions that have occurred since the last preventative maintenance event. Arming your technicians with data on battery health, discharge performance, and alarms decreases risk and increases expenditure forecasting.
Compliance
Cellwatch Battery Monitoring complies with regulatory requirements for IFC and NFPA battery standards. Our solution meets UL 61010, supports IEEE 1491, and minimizes human contact with your battery.
Preventing Outages
Our platform monitors every battery unit every day, failing cells are identified and can be removed to protect healthy units and prevent outages.
Safety
Cellwatch Battery Monitoring created the first fully integrated, listed and approved to standards application to detect, warn and prevent thermal runway.
Reducing Costs
By eliminating unplanned outages, extending useful battery life, deferring replacements, and reducing manual preventive maintenance costs.
NERC Compliance
Cellwatch Frontier meets NERC compliance regulations with daily battery testing and automated report generation.
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