Policy-Backed: Lightning Protection Technology Poised for Growth in Low-Voltage Engineering Market
06 Mar 2024
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With the backing of policies that support technological innovation, smart lightning protection technology is expected to experience stable and continuous growth in the low-voltage engineering market. The widespread adoption of any product must meet three prerequisites: technological maturity, the ability to address urgent market demands, and policy support. As technology advances, electronic and electrical equipment is constantly innovating, with lightning protection being a crucial component of electrical safety technology.
Traditional lightning protection measures primarily involve lightning rods, grounding systems, surge protectors (SPDs), equipotential bonding, and electromagnetic pulse protection. Defects in lightning protection engineering, such as the deterioration of key components, breakage of down conductors, or increased resistance in grounding systems due to corrosion, are often not detectable through visual inspection. Moreover, periodic manual inspections cannot ensure timely fault detection, which may lead to the ineffectiveness of the lightning protection system during lightning strikes. The development of smart lightning protection technology has effectively addressed these shortcomings. This technology can detect anomalies in key parameters in real-time through centralized network monitoring and can provide multiple alarms at various locations to identify potential hazards in advance and address them quickly, ensuring the safety of electrical equipment.
As is well known, smart lightning protection equipment has been widely used in key industries across the country in recent years, including gas stations, refineries, railways, and other critical fields, as well as core data centers in the low-current field. The data cabinets are equipped with intelligent SPDs (which can assess equipment quality and detect leaks) and grounding continuity monitoring modules. After several years of practical application, these technologies have received high recognition from users and relevant departments for their contributions to disaster reduction.
In August of this year, the China Meteorological Administration issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Digital Reform of Lightning Protection Safety Supervision" (Circular [2023] No. 90), requiring meteorological departments in various provinces to promote centralized supervision of lightning protection safety in key industries through digital reform by 2025. This policy measure aims to implement the Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening the Construction of Digital Government (Circular [2022] No. 14) and the Notice of the State Council on Issuing the Outline of High-Quality Meteorological Development (2022-2035) (Circular [2022] No. 11), promote the digitization of lightning protection safety supervision, thereby improving regulatory effectiveness and effectively preventing and controlling safety risks.
From this trend, it appears that traditional manual lightning protection detection methods may soon be replaced by online digital monitoring methods. With the rise of intelligent buildings and the widespread adoption of data centers across various industries, as well as the increase in the types and quantities of field monitoring equipment, the scale of smart lightning protection technology in the low-current engineering market is expected to continue growing steadily. It is widely believed in the industry that the period from 2024 to 2026 will mark the peak of large-scale adoption of smart lightning protection technology. (Source: Lightning Protection in China)