OptiFender helps save costs in several ways:

Firstly, it reduces the total cost of ownership by providing an automated system that eliminates the need for in-house specialists. This means you don’t have to invest in specialized personnel for PD analysis and monitoring.

Secondly, OptiFender provides early detection and diagnosis of potential issues, which minimizes downtime and repair costs. By identifying problems before they escalate, it significantly mitigates risks and prevents costly failures.

Additionally, while you do need to purchase the OptiFender system, its advanced technology ensures accurate and reliable monitoring, which enhances operational efficiency and extends the lifespan of your assets. This leads to long-term cost savings and improved financial performance.

Overall, OptiFender streamlines asset management, enhances operational efficiency, and offers a cost-effective approach to maintaining the health and performance of your infrastructure.

Yes, you can adjust the scale of services with OptiFender. The system is designed to be flexible and scalable, allowing you to tailor the monitoring setup to your specific needs. For example, you can daisy chain multiple sensors along a single channel to monitor various components such as cable terminations and joints. This flexibility ensures that you can expand or reduce the scope of monitoring based on your requirements.

Additionally, OptiFender supports both factory testing and field testing, providing accurate and rapid PD localization for proactive maintenance and reliability. This adaptability makes it suitable for various applications, including full substation PD monitoring and spot-checks.

If you have any more questions or need further details, feel free to ask!

No, you don’t. With Optifender MaaS, you gain access to our specialized expertise and support, ensuring you receive accurate PD analysis and recommendations without the overhead of in-house specialists.

Our service provides early detection and diagnosis of potential issues, which helps minimize downtime and repair costs. This proactive approach to asset management significantly mitigates risks for your projects.

Yes, it is. We offer tailored service packages and reporting options that are designed to meet the unique needs of each client, ensuring your satisfaction and the development of a long-term partnership.

PD (Partial Discharge) monitoring helps prevent unplanned downtime, avoiding revenue loss, regulatory fines, increased insurance premiums, and damage to a utility company’s reputation by identifying potential high voltage assets failures before they occur.

PD sensing plays a crucial role in predictive and preventative maintenance, as well as in system reliability. PD monitoring enhances power system reliability through the early detection of potential failures. It helps prevent catastrophic failures, facilitates predictive maintenance, and extends the life of assets.

Yes, a failure, especially in HV and EHV systems, can stress redundant cable systems and generation sites, potentially causing cascading issues across the network and necessitating rapid emergency response to prevent widespread asset damage.

The OptiFender solution for PD sensing is applicable to all voltage levels from Medium Voltage (MV) to Extra High Voltage (EHV) without impacting the implementation cost of the system. This becomes especially advantageous for HV and EHV systems, as traditional PD monitoring solutions tend to become exponentially more costly as the voltage level increases.

Implementing PD sensing for vital assets and HV equipment is a key element in a comprehensive preventative maintenance strategy. While conventional tools like current, voltage, and temperature sensing are valuable, they lack the accuracy provided by PD monitoring. Almost 40% of substation transformer failures are due to dielectric breakdown, and 75% of cable system failures (excluding external physical forces) are also due to dielectric breakdown. Integrating PD sensing is essential for a detailed evaluation of asset health, guaranteeing a robust and forward-thinking maintenance approach.

OptiFender offers numerous advantages, such as cost-effectiveness across various voltage levels, adaptability to different voltage levels, accurate PD localization capabilities, retrofitting features, passive sensors that don’t need power at the sensing location, immunity to EMI and electrical background noise, long-distance operation, and precise PD sensing, allowing for immediate identification of the PD source in HV and EHV assets.