Houston Methodist Hospital automates control of emergency power supply system

Hospital installs remote monitoring, testing and control of emergency power supply system to meet compliance requirements


The Houston Methodist Hospital wanted to automate the emergency power supply system (EPSS) testing processes in order to ensure the safety of patients during an outage, according to a case study on the Blue Pillar website.

At Houston Methodist, generators and automatic transfer switches that make up the backup system can be on the top floor of one building and in the basement of another across the campus.

To access this equipment, a team of five to six people armed with clipboards and stopwatches had to walk across acres, through tunnels and up and down stairs to get from one generator to the next, taking readings by hand and writing reports. This  task took at least 1.5 hours per test.

Instead, Houston Methodist connected 89 pieces of EPSS equipment into a system-wide, secure network without needing any customized development.

Read the case study.

 

 



December 13, 2016


Topic Area: Energy and Power


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