In short, the Infraguard ensures that backup power, the generator, engages when it’s critical that it do so. This is normally the role of the Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS), but the ATS only sees what’s in front of it. The Infraguard effectively covers the back end of brewing problems that blindside the ATS and the facility. Therefore, the Infraguard is an expert system that continuously monitors and analyzes power system data, and immediately makes expert decisions (e.g. fire-up and engage the generator!) when critical power is at risk. Therefore, it continuously and flawlessly automates a series of functions that an operator simply cannot replicate.

There are many failure mechanisms that are very subtle, but not infrequent, that  pass through the power system undetected, ultimately resulting in a power outage risk. Examples include certain patterns of lightning strikes and input voltage variations, loss of phase, UPS failure and others. These are discussed in the Infraguard White Paper and Presentation.

The Infraguard unifies the critical power delivery elements into a critical power delivery system. As such, the Infraguard monitors all power delivery elements and commands preemptive action when the system reaches a point of failure potential. It provides a level of guaranteed interaction and supervision that is not available from traditional (legacy) critical power delivery systems — including every non-AiNET facility built, designed or in operation today.

The problems addressed by the Infraguard do not stem from a lack of redundancy; they stem from system-level shortcomings in failure and potential failure detection and management. Most critical facilities fail because components of their design fail to engage or fail to identify a trouble condition properly. The Infraguard provides the missing, critical, integration.