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Monitoring your battery cells can provide you with some serious ROI...
Read this battery monitoring guide to learn:
Why its essential to monitor your lead acid battery cells
The 4 primary benefits of monitoring your batteries
The 13 must-have features of a quality battery monitor
Dont leave your network - and your bottom line - exposed any longer...
Read this White Paper today...
By Mark Carberry
Version 3.0
Revised July 8, 2013
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We protect your network like your business depends on itTM
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Contents
Why You Need To Be Monitoring Battery Jars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The 4 Primary Benefits of Monitoring Your Batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The 13 Features of a Quality Battery System Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Battery System Monitor (BSM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What DPS Clients Have to Say. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The DPS Promise to You. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
NOTE: This white paper is an introduction to battery system monitoring equipment. DPS Telecom
specializes in custom engineering, designed especially for you and your mission-critical network.
The information presented in this White Paper is a new application. The exact deployment of these
products and applications may change, according to your unique network. Please use this White
Paper as a tool for planning your battery monitoring solutions
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A battery system monitor will provide critical visibility of the battery cells in your network.
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1. Prevent outages
The first and biggest benefit of battery monitoring is the ability to pre-empt, through maintenance, many power-related
outages. When your battery cells are left unmonitored, you
are left guessing about their status. Creating a reliable network requires continuous network monitoring - otherwise a
small issue can quickly turn into a serious problem.
What if your critical backup batteries are approaching endof-life when power fails at the site? This is a far too common
disaster because many companies dont take their backup
power seriously - even if they think they do. With a battery
monitor in place, you would have known your batteries were
discharging and which cells were going bad long before it
became an issue. These kinds of headaches arent hard to
prevent - the key is having visibility of potential problems.
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means, if your battery voltage drops below a certain percentage, youll receive a notification and can quickly respond
accordingly.
Lets face it - batteries are a part of your safety net, and nothing is worse than a false sense of security. If your primary
power goes down, thats precisely when youll need your
batteries the most. If your battery cells require maintenance
or are otherwise impaired, then your site will go completely
dark long before it should - meaning critical network gear
will be down. Had you known that your backup batteries
were impaired, you could have done something about it.
1. Adequate Capacity
Some battery voltage monitoring systems dont support the
capacity to handle large quantities of cells. Its absolutely
essential that you have the ability to monitor each of your
battery jars - otherwise youll find yourself vulnerable to
the weakest link of the battery string. The Battery System
Monitor from DPS allows you to monitor up to 6 strings for
a maximum capacity of 960 batteries per Base Coordinator
with up to 3,000 Amps of current.
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2. SNMP Support
3. 24/7 Notifications
When it comes to monitoring your batteries - and therefore
protecting your uptime - you want true flexibility. Having the
capability to receive 24/7 notifications (via SMS text message,
email, voice alerts, etc) about the status of your batteries can
be the difference between an outage and keeping power to your
gear.
Even if you have a 7x24 NOC (Network Operations Center),
receiving on-the-fly and mobile notifications can give you an
edge in avoiding preventable outages. Look for a battery monitor that can alert you via emails, SMS text messages, paging,
etc. With flexible alerts that can notify you out of the office
(ex: via your mobile phone), you can be assured you wont feel
blind-sided by a battery maintenance issue.
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6. Historical Trending
A battery monitor with an analog logging feature will
allow you to graph historical trends of your battery
monitoring data from the web page. With graphical data,
youll be able to analyze your battery voltage information
and observe degradation patterns with your batteries. If
you ever need to reference past data about your battery
voltage, youll have the historical information at your
disposal. This may not work for all applications, but with
a quick call to DPS, the engineers can design a custom-fit
solution for you.
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8. Web Interface
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Wireless-Ready GSM/CDMA
RTUs
Receive alarms wirelessly with these RTUs
Even if your site is located out in the middle
of nowhere, you can still receive monitoring
coverage from your BSM. These wireless
RTUs allow you to provide a primary reporting path at sites without LAN or give you a
reliable backup reporting path to sites with a
primary data transport link.
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Easily keep track of your power levels with this wireless battery-monitoring equipment.
Overview
The BSM is an excellent solution for battery string monitoring in both industrial telco and IT environments.
Specifications
Supported Cells:
Conductive Range:
BCU Consumption:
1 Watt
Strap Resistance:
Max Altitude:
6,000 ft
Test Current:
Operating Temp:
32 - 104 F (0 - 40 C)
Voltage Range:
Operating Humidity:
0% - 95% non-condensing
NetGuardian Protocols:
Voltage Accuracy:
+/- 20 milliVolts
14 - 104 F (-10 - 40 C)
Supported
NetGuardians:
Sensor Dimensions:
BCU Dimensions:
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DPS support didnt end with the sale. Your technical support personnel continue to answer our numerous questions and have been an invaluable asset as
we implement new features and modify the system.
P. Shew - PNM Electric Services
You have always taken the time to ask for the application and determine what
product would be best for me and provide the Right solution.
V. Whitten - CenterPoint Energy
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