Lightning Protection for Outdoor CCTV Cameras
Silvia Yalcin
International Marketing & Business Development Director at MTO Engineering Ltd.
Outdoor cameras are installed on metal poles/masts, and they are highly prone to lightning strikes. Traditional lightning arresters (a.k.a. lightning rods) can NOT protect your cameras from lightning damage because they attract lightning strikes on themselves and to the camera poles.
Even with a lightning rod on the camera pole, lightning still gives damage to the cameras, creates additional maintenance costs, and loss of service.
Lightning must be kept AWAY from the cameras!
EvoDis? Lightning Prevention System
EvoDis? System dissipates the ground charges away from the protected structure. This process keeps the surrounding electrical field strength below the threshold level, blocks the formation of upward streamers towards the storm cloud, and avoids the development of the lightning channel between the cloud and the camera pole.
EvoDis? System keeps the lightning strikes away from the camera pole and makes your cameras “invisible” to lightning strikes.