EliGuard has developed a software-centric technology that makes it possible to listen to the health of an electrical installation.

Unlike other solutions, like photo sensors, the EliGuard technology responds proactively before accidents occur and monitor at a great distance, without line of sight, giving the software the unique capability of detecting sparks before they become arcs.

“The EliGuard technology is the next generation of electrical safety technology,” EliGuard chairman Robert Magnusson says.

“Not only is it superior in regards to being proactive rather than reactive, but structural borne acoustic technology is also substantially more cost efficient than some of the other safety technologies on the market.”

The EliGuard technology is based on structural borne acoustic emission analysis. The EliGuard sensor listens to the standard DIN-track in a switch cabinet and, from this position, one sensor unit can monitor all connections in the cabinet as well as deep into the cables routed to and from it.

Once installed, the software component of the technology can log, analyse and, if required, act on all electrically induced structural borne resonance stemming from incipient sparks in your copper wires and connections.

Structural borne resonance has the advantage of not requiring an unobstructed line of sight to an arc. Hence, it can operate despite being located multiple walls away from the incipient spark.