Background
The Middle East is transitioning from an energy hub to a green grid, facing challenges from high temperatures, sandstorms, and renewable integration. Smart substations are now the critical foundation for a resilient, efficient, and sustainablBusways are critical for power distribution in data centers, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities. Abnormal temperature rise at connection points caused by contact resistance or overload is a major cause of failures. Traditional manual inspections cannot detect risks in time, requiring an online, continuous, and accurate temperature monitoring solution.
Pain & Value
Your Pain Points
Sudden busway overheating causes data center or plant shutdowns, leading to huge financial loss and reputational damage
Complex temperature monitoring solutions requiring power-off installation increase procurement and coordination costs
Dense busway joints make it difficult to quickly locate overheating points, reducing maintenance efficiency
Our Acrel Value
Provides 24/7 online temperature monitoring and early warning, shifting from reactive repair to proactive prevention, ensuring business continuity
AMB series supports live installation (hot-swappable), offers wired/wireless communication, reducing deployment cost and time
Provides temperature data for each joint, supports HMI centralized display and remote alarms, greatly improving O&M efficiency
Solution
Busway Tempearture Monitoring Solution
The Acrel AMB series busway temperature monitoring solution adopts a three-layer architecture from sensing, transmission to management, covering busway joints, tap-off units, surfaces, and long-distance busways.
Products include AMB100 (tap-off unit monitoring), AMB200 (joint temperature monitoring), AMB300 (infrared non-contact), and AMB400 (fiber optic distributed sensing), suitable for new construction, retrofit, dense, and long-distance applications.
Busway Tap-off & Plug-in Unit Monitoring – NTC
AMB100 monitors voltage, current, energy, temperature, humidity, and leakage for AC/DC busway tap-off units. It supports RS485 or LoRa wireless communication, tracks switch and alarm status. Prevents overload and overheating at branch level.
Busway Connection Point Temp. Monitoring – Infrared
AMB300 uses infrared thermometry with up to 16×12 sensor array to measure busbar surface temperature without contact. Ideal for retrofit projects. Supports RS485 and custom alarm thresholds. Scalable for large-scale surface monitoring.
Busway Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) – Fiber Optic
AMB400 uses fiber optic cable as a continuous sensor to measure temperature along long-distance busways. Each 100m fiber provides 1000 sensing points. Perfect for high-rise buildings and dense busbars. Precisely locates hotspots.
Product
01. Tap-off & Plug-in Unit
Target: Voltage, current, energy, power, power factor, temperature, humidity, leakage current (AC/DC)
Solves: Unable to monitor electrical parameters, thermal status, and energy data inside tap-off units in real time; hidden risks are hard to detect
Value: Real-time warning of overload, overheating, and leakage risks, preventing equipment burnout and power outages
Product: AMB100
Live installation
Energy monitoring
Overload warning
Modbus+LoRa
02. Busway Joint Temp.
Target: 4 or 8 channels of joint temperature, ambient humidity
Solves: New busway joints lack monitoring; abnormal temperature rise at connection points cannot be detected early, leading to delayed fault discovery
Value: Direct contact with copper bar for accurate temperature measurement, supports live hot-swap installation, wireless transmission, flexible deployment
Product: AMB200
Direct contact
Hot-swappable
Wireless LoRa
8-channel temp
03. Busway Surface Temp. (IR)
Target: up to 16×12 array infrared temperature, ambient humidity
Solves: In retrofit projects, busbars are live and surfaces are not suitable for contact; traditional sensors cannot be safely installed
Value: Non-contact infrared measurement, no need to touch live busbars, safe and easy deployment, supports customizable high-temperature thresholds
Product: AMB300
Non-contact
IR array
Surface temp
Retrofit ready
04. Long-distance / Dense Busway
Target: Continuous temperature distribution along sensing fiber (1000 points per 100m fiber)
Solves: In long-distance or densely installed busways, hot spots are difficult to locate quickly; fault diagnosis is time-consuming
Value: Distributed continuous temperature sensing, precise location of abnormal temperature points, suitable for high-rise buildings and long-distance factory monitoring
Product: AMB400
Fiber optic
Long distance
Continuous sensing
Precise locating
Typical Application Scenarios
Continuous temperature monitoring for tap-off units and connectors in large data center busways to prevent server outages due to overheating.
Fiber optic temperature monitoring (AMB400) for inter-floor power supply busways in high-rise buildings, ensuring safety in hotels and malls.
Infrared or fiber optic temperature monitoring for switchgear busbars and long-distance busways, suitable for harsh high-temperature environments.
Deploy AMB100 + AMB200 at critical power distribution nodes to ensure reliability of public transportation power supply.
Make Busway Temperature Visible,
make power distribution safe and controllable.
Contact us today for a customized solution and demo.
