Personal safety

Dangerous work is sometimes best done from a distance!

Sometimes, the safest way to operate an entire system or a specific part of machinery is to stay as far away as possible. In the old days, this was impossible. Cables had to be exchanged because of damage. Vulnerable contacts broke and needed mending. All this had to be handled by experts, experts that needed to be not just on-site, but directly linked to the system.

Using a connectBlue wireless solution can vastly increase personal safety.  And our industry standard products keep latency very high and downtime very low.

Case: Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric UK is a worldwide supplier of products and services for Power and Control.

Operation of an 11kV electricity network is potentially lethal. And shutting the network down due to maintenance creates an outrage amongst consumers; private and companies. Therefore Schneider have developed a Bluetooth management system, enabling operators to manage pole mounted RTU’s from the safety of ground.

Now, instead of shutting down and climbing up the pole, the operator simply connects a Bluetooth enabled PC to the RTU which intergrates an OEM Serial Port Adapter from connectBlue. The operator can now make software upgrades, reconfigurations and energy diagnostics on site, but from a distance of up to 100 meters. Safety has of course vastly increased, but also the downtime for shut-downs has been eliminated.

The industrial reliability of the Serial Port Adapter and the co-operation of minds at work at Schneider Electric UK and connectBlue, has made this possible.

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