MEASUREMENT
ANALYSING ELECTRICAL POWER QUALITY SIMPLY AND RELIABLY - IN CERTIFIED POWER QUALITY ANALYSIS, NEW FEATURES PAY OFF
LINAXÂ PQ5000-MOBILE in application with a tablet and no extra software (integrated Web browser). Operation with the single control key is efficient as well.
Even in the time of COVID-19, Camille Bauer Metrawatt is determined to continue with enhancements and innovations in response to conclusive market feedback and international trends. The issue of power quality is becoming increasingly important, particularly to ensure security of supply in the areas of power generation, power distribution and electricity consumption. By providing the appropriate measurement technology, Camille Bauer Metrawatt contributes to maintaining and continuously improving the security of supply.
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Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Especially when making power quality measurements with a portable device, it is not uncommon for the supply voltage to be briefly interrupted. This often occurs for trivial reasons which, however, can influence measurement results significantly. For example, the power plug might fall out of the socket or be unplugged by mistake. If this happens during an EN50160-compliant measurement campaign for example, which normally lasts 7 days, the measurement result may contain gaps. For this reason, the newly integrated UPS in the LINAXÂ PQ5000-MOBILE can easily outlast a power cut of 5 x 3 minutes. So, if there is a power failure, it provides enough time to reconnect the power plug to the socket while the measuring device continues to record without interruption. And the battery life is approx. 3-5 years. So now, all LINAX PQ series power quality analysers can be optionally equipped with a UPS.
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Remote access via secure connection We increasingly find in applications that measurements made with portable devices are also being made as part of a remote process. This entails not only having a qualified person on site to carry out the measurement on the electrical installation but also someone else, who may be located somewhere quite different, starts and ends the measurement series and saves the measurement data via Internet somewhere in the world. And so, this poses the question of how to implement this type of application securely. To support this, Camille Bauer Metrawatt has introduced secure gateway access with a SIM card. This enables measurements to be carried out remotely at any time and from anywhere through the VPN tunnel. In addition, realtime data, for example from the event recorder, energy flow data, interim reports, alarms, etc., can be safely viewed at any time, thus leading to early detection of mains power quality.
