Lightning location data & display system

EA Technology’s Lightning Location system has the unique ability to plot and display lightning strikes in real time – and provide historical data on lightning activity across the UK and Ireland over the past 20+ years.


click on the image to download the brochure Our system is the only system that concentrates on recording just cloud-to-ground strikes. Hence we only monitor the strikes that can actually cause damage or danger to personnel. This means that if you are trying to identify a strike that has damaged some equipment, the data is not disguised within a large number of cloud-to-cloud, intra-cloud or cloud-to air strikes which cannot have caused the damage.

Subscribers to this extraordinarily valuable service include members of the electricity, telecoms and insurance industries.

BENEFITS Subscribers receive online lightning information, within seconds of each strike Lightning protection equipment can be checked on overhead lines following severe lightning activity observed in their area Increased safety for staff working in high risk locations, including tall structures Enables managers to deploy repair crews to vulnerable areas in advance, so minimising disruption Historical data provides evidence for (or against) lightning as the cause of damage in insurance claims

The system enables subscribers to see how electrical storms develop and move, as well as providing access to accurate records of past lightning strikes

UNIQUE FEATURES

• PC-based online user interface
• Six detection outstations monitor the whole of the UK and Ireland
• Each outstation can detect up to 100 strikes per second
• Proven system, in operation since 1989

LIGHTNING LOCATION DATA & DISPLAY SYSTEM

USER FRIENDLY

• Easy to set up subscription service provides full access to online lightning data
• PC software included
• User friendly graphical interface

ACCURATE REAL TIME DATA

• Strike locations are calculated to 100m accuracy and referenced to Ordnance Survey grid
• Time-of-strike measured to within one millisecond
• Evidence of strikes appears on subscribers’ screens in seconds (often before they hear the thunder!)

VALUABLE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION

• Enables managers to plan for approaching electrical storms ‘Replay’ data on lightning activity is available at no extra cost, to determine the causes of damage
• Our 20 year record of activity identifies lightning hot spots – essential for evaluating risk to key assets (see Lightning System Audit)

LIGHTNING SYSTEM AUDITS

We also provide a complete range of Lightning System Audit services, with recommendations for the most appropriate and cost effective systems to protect your assets. Please visit the Lightning System Audit page and download a brochure.