Battery Monitoring as a Service

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Canara Insight+ for Batteries
INNOVATIVE PREDICTIVE MONITORING SERVICE THAT ELIMINATES THE NEED TO
PURCHASE BATTERY MONITORING HARDWARE
Continuous monitoring of backup batteries can
ensure protection, but requires a large up-front
capital investment and adds more equipment that
you must maintain. But hardware alone is not
enough; you must then have the staff that can review
alarms and interpret the enormous amount of data
generated by these monitors. Unfortunately, all too
often, alarms are often ignored, and performance
data is rarely truly reviewed and understood. This not
only places your data center at risk but also prevents
you from realizing the full value of your investment.
Rethink your battery asset management.

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PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TO
ENSURE UPTIME AND EXTEND
ASSET LIFE
Accurate data from a battery monitoring
system is extremely valuable. This value
is dramatically increased when qualified
individuals are continually watching, assessing
and interpreting the data. By combining state
of the art prognostics tools and software
systems, Canara enhances your operations by
highlighting the information you need to focus
on. We are able to analyze, track, and even
predict, what is going to happen and when.
Predict & Prevent vs. Risk & React
Becoming proactive requires diligence in
gathering, trending, and interpreting data into
actionable tasks which allows you to move to a
predict & prevent condition-based maintenance
model.
By gathering core data in a facility, we can help
you improve energy and operational efficiencies
and ensure availability. While our qualified team
is watching and interpreting this information,
you can easily access and evaluate the same
trending data through the Canara Insight Center.
CANARA INSIGHT+ FOR BATTERIES
Fully Realize the Value of Monitoring
INTEGRATED
BATTERY
MONITORING
HARDWARE
A fully managed and maintained system eliminates
upfront capital cost, simplifies your operations and
protects you from technology obsolescence.
CANARA INSIGHT
CENTER
You can easily access and evaluate status of
critical systems, performance trends and the alarm
situations through our online monitoring portal. The
Canara Insight Center features a multi-dimensional
visualization of your performance data that increases
visibility and enables efficient management of your
infrastructure.
EXPERIENCED POWER
ANALYSTS
Our team of seasoned experts interpret your data and
predict battery related failures long before they happen.
Our analysts leverage over 20 years of expertise, IEEE
standards and state-of-the-art predictive modeling
tools to make informed assessments of your risk
exposure and provide condition-based corrective actions
and recommendations.
ROBUST REPORTING
& ANALYSIS
Weekly reports outline performance exceptions and
critical tasks enabling pre-emptive maintenance and
asset planning. We also provide annual and ad-hoc
reporting of your battery assets which allows you
to see insights such as, the projected number of
months of remaining service life expected for each
battery string. This provides valuable perspective for
your budget planning for string replacements and
eliminates most capital expenditure surprises.
Canara Insight+ for Batteries is an
innovative alternative to the traditional
means of monitoring and managing your
backup-power infrastructure. With our
all-inclusive predictive monitoring service,
Canara provides and manages every aspect
of your battery monitoring solution.
We bundle monitoring hardware and
hardware replacement with our predictive
monitoring service. This allows you to
focus on your business priorities and not
reviewing and analyzing performance data.
It also eliminates the need to purchase
equipment and shifts the purchasing model
to a subscription fee, giving you the ability
to reserve capital for other purposes.
Canara Power Experts review your
performance data and use analytics to
predict imminent failures and provide
real insights into your infrastructure. This
enables you to fully realize the business
value of monitoring not just respond to
alarms and alerts.
FIRST-EVER ALL-INCLUSIVE,
PREDICTIVE MONITORING SERVICE

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“ Canara lets us tap into its wealth of historical data on batteries. We have a solid point of
comparison for our own battery reading, and we have a better basis for predicting future
performance than our readings alone could provide.”
— REGIONAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, CENTURYLINK
BENEFITSOFPREDICTIVE
MONITORING
• Identifies problems before they
happen
• Extends battery life by up to 35%
• Protects your systems from
thermal runaway
• Reduces maintenance costs by up
to 75%
• Accurately forecasts
maintenance and string
replacements
INNOVATIVE BATTERY
MONITORING TECHNOLOGY
Predictive monitoring of the health of your
backup power systems is critical to ensure
uptime and supports business process
improvements to aid overall operational
efficiency. While you need it now, we
understand that you may not have the capital
to invest. This is why we offer our monitoring
and predictive analytics as a service without
the need for upfront capital investment in
equipment. Canara Insight+ for Batteries
includes state-of the-art hardware that
gathers the same performance data as
node-based systems but with up to 80% less
battery connections.
• Smaller hardware footprint with fewer
potential points of failure
• Swappable design for non-intrusive
replacement
• Large installation scalability
STRING QUADRANT 4 STRING QUADRANT 3
STRING QUADRANT 2STRING QUADRANT 1
CANARA MANAGER
CANARA QUADRANT
CONTROLLER
CANARA QUADRANT
CONTROLLER
The Canara Quadrant Controller collects
battery health and performance data across
a string of batteries. Once connected,
the controller measures four quadrants
within the battery string to efficiently
collect necessary performance data. These
metrics enable identification of trending
and critical battery situations that may
require maintenance activity. The data points
measured include impedance, float voltage,
ambient temperature, charge and discharge
voltages.
The Quadrant Controllers are connected
to a Canara Manager that aggregates and
communicates collected power system
data back to the Canara Insight Center for
analysis.

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OPTIONAL CANARA BATTERY
SERVICES
Save time, money and ensure your systems
are operational with a full portfolio of battery
service options to meet all your battery assets
and maintenance needs. Starting with system
identification and selection, Canara can help you
navigate the procurement, install, commissioning
and replacement of your critical power
infrastructure.
Our field team is highly experienced and trained
to perform battery projects in an efficient
and safe manner. Whether you need a full
battery installation or a spot replacement,
we provide complete end-to-end project
management coordination to ensure a successful
implementation.
CANARA INSIGHT+ FOR BATTERIES
• $0 upfront hardware cost
• Predictable Opex
• Expert analysis
• Robust reporting
• Online monitoring portal
WEEKLY TRENDING &
CORRECTIVE
ACTION REPORTS
Weekly reports provide alarm details and recommended actions,
enabling stakeholders to properly plan pre-emptive maintenance, while
avoiding costly emergency work orders.
AGING ANALYSIS
REPORT
Detailed report that provides an estimate of the remaining operational
life of a battery system. The report is based on a performance index
rating that takes into account: system Ohmic rise, system age, number
of batteries out of tolerance and number of batteries replaced.
DATA CORRELATION
REPORTS FOR
HANDHELD TESTING
Canara can perform periodic validation of data captured on hand-held
devices against the data collected by the battery monitoring system.
These reports correlate the different measures and ensure accurate
recommendations for the disposition of batteries.
CUSTOM REPORTS Custom reports allow you to create, edit and save your battery data in
alternative formats that cater to your specific asset management needs.
EQUIPMENT
ACTIVITY HISTORY
Users can create work tickets to track all corrective and preventive
maintenance activity performed on data center battery assets.
CRITICAL POWER
PERFORMANCE
REPORT
A comprehensive report presenting the power outage events
(discharges) that were captured by the battery monitoring system are
also available.
CRITICAL SYSTEM
REPORTS
From commissioning reports to preventive and corrective maintenance
reports, all delivered as interactive reports for one-click access to the
information you need.
CRITICAL POWER ANALYSIS
& REPORTING