Are you certain of your safety power supply – no matter what?

Securing Your Buildings: Ensuring Safety and Compliance Made Simple.

In order to protect people and assets – and to be sure that vital safety equipment can be deployed when it’s needed most – every building must guarantee the permanent availability of electrical power.

Whether you’re securing fire extinguishing systems, emergency lighting, smoke extraction or IT equipment, it’s imperative that every critical load remains operational - under all circumstances.

Sounds obvious?? But how can you be certain of both redundancy and availability, no matter what?

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Designing for safety and availability

“A building’s electrical distribution system should be designed to guarantee that power is always available – while also ensuring compliance with international installation regulations such as IEC 60364, as well as national and local legislation, such as the stipulation that dual supplies are provided to each critical load via automatic transfer switching equipment (ATSE) installed as close to the load as possible.? This will increase resilience by minimising the cable lengths between ATSE and the critical loads.? Following an outage, the time to return power to the critical load from the emergency generator should typically be within 15 seconds.”

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Delivering secure and sustainable power with architecture that’s both compliant and resilient

With redundant and robust solutions, including those dedicated to high-rise buildings and battery energy storage (BESS) for silent, sustainable and green emergency power, Socomec’s certified and compliant Transfer Switching Equipment (TSE) can secure power to life safety and firefighting equipment, with dual electrical supplies supporting redundancy, and circuit integrity assuring availability.

“A single point of failure can be eliminated by designing the electrical installation and distribution to sustain circuit integrity and increase power availability to maintain all critical loads; a dual redundant power source can feed life safety and fire-fighting loads and a triple supply can feed critical loads through a separate riser.

“What’s more, bypass isolation transfer switching equipment (BTSE) provides online maintenance of the main TSE with no break or blackout, and should be provided for all life safety and fire-fighting equipment.? The BTSE enables the main TSE to be bypassed and isolated for testing and maintenance without any loss of service to the critical loads.”

Socomec provides the widest range of certified and compliant transfer switching equipment on the market with ratings from 40 to 6300 A and operating transfer times to match all building installation requirements for life safety and fire-fighting equipment.

All Socomec automatic transfer switching equipment (ATSE) is certified to PC class of IEC 60947-6-1 and is available as a loose ATSE for integration into the enclosure of your choice, or fully assembled as an enclosed ATSE, or connected (IoT) bypass isolation TSE (BTSE) certified to IEC 61439-2.

Ensuring the safety and compliance of your building's electrical power is not just a regulatory requirement but a moral obligation. By partnering with Socomec, you can rest assured that your critical systems are in safe hands, with reliable and resilient power solutions that guarantee uptime under any circumstances.

Ready to secure your building's power supply? Contact us via [email protected] today to learn more about our certified transfer switching equipment and how we can help you ensure the safety and compliance of your facility.