Starkstrom says SATS, its new automatic transfer switch, can ‘build even more resilience’ into the specialist medical electrical power supply systems for high care areas that the company has installed in hospitals for over 20 years.
It explained: “For clinicians already used to working with an isolated power supply, SATS further enhances everything they are doing to keep patients safe during surgery. If the sockets lose power, the SATS automatically transfers supplies. The changeover happens at IPS level, ensuring a negligible break in supply, and that the procedure can continue without the team having to take any action. “The addition of SATS means both IPS and UPS work at the optimum level, building an extra level of resilience into the entire system, and ensuring the power is always routed to the patient. If SATS detects a change in voltage or frequency outside a user-defined limit, it will switch to a back-up supply within 0.5 seconds, choosing between the two supplies feeding into the IPS, and picking which to take power from. In a power failure, a UPS will switch to battery.”
