Vaisala FALLS® Fault Analysis and Lightning Location System

Improve Reliability with Vaisala FALLS® 5.0

Vaisala FALLS® (Fault Analysis and Lightning Location System) 5.0 provides electric utility engineers with responsibility for design, maintenance, power quality and restoration, the ability to quickly and easily perform fault correlations on an event-by-event basis, obtain statistics concerning the number of lightning events or magnitudes for design, and evaluate lightning challenges to a line or area for input to maintenance prioritization.

Vaisala FALLS is used by 80% of the top revenue-generating electric utilities in the United States. It is also incorporated into the operations of electric utilities in 15 countries worldwide.

 

New features in the Vaisala FALLS® version 5.0

  • - An intuitive easy-to-use interface with integrated GIS functionality
  • - Dockable windows
  • - Enhanced display that color-codes lightning events by time, polarity, amplitude, and discrimination
  • - Run analyses and other desktop functionalities simultaneously
  • - Compatible with native ESRI shape files and MapInfo table files

Support intelligent design and engineering

  • - Include cloud lightning in your analyses if available from your Vaisala lightning detection network
  • - Filter events by user-defined amplitude (kA) thresholds
  • - Analysis start and end dates can be automatically populated using user-defined criteria
  • - Import and export maps to complement SCADA and mapping systems with lightning analysis
  • - Correlate faults, interruptions or system failures with specific lightning strikes
  • - Locate weaknesses and evaluate performance related to lightning
  • - Recommend and prioritize upgrades and maintenance
  • - Make targeted improvements
  • - Assess the effectiveness of your protection schemes
  • - Benchmark system performance relative to actual exposure to lightning
  • - Determine yearly, monthly, and weekly variations in local lightning
  • - Defend against lightning damage claims
 

 

Vaisala FALLS® customers include:

  • - Reliability Engineers
  • - Power Quality Engineers
  • - Planning and Design Engineers
  • - Construction and Maintenance Supervisors
  • - Facilities Planning and Asset Managers
  • - Account Managers
  • - Regulatory Compliance Managers
  • - Operations Managers
  • - Emergency Response Managers
  • - Safety Managers
Vaisala FALLS - Fault Analysis and Lightning Location System