{"id":128,"category":{"id":3,"text":"Destaques e Notícias"},"title":"Electrical Protection hasn't ended... It's envolved","created_at":"2025-10-14","link_url":"","link_text":"","icon":{"id":27331,"name":"capa blog proteção elétrica","ext":"jpg","link":"2025/10/20251014105548604","lang":"EN","role":"general"},"html":"
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Electrical protection has evolved from response to prediction. A new generation of systems transforms data into decisions.
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From isolated components to intelligent systems. For decades, electrical protection meant detecting a fault and reacting fast to contain its effects. Relays, breakers, and interlocks have long been the backbone of safety — efficient and indispensable. But today’s engineering goes beyond reaction: it’s about anticipating, predicting, and learning from data.
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From Isolated Equipment to Intelligent Systems

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In conventional architectures, each device operates independently: the relay reacts to current or voltage, the PLC manages interlocks, and the SCADA only collects discrete signals.

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Information exists — but it doesn’t flow with context. The result is a set of efficient yet fragmented islands, capable of reacting — but blind to why or what preceded the event.

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• The connected architecture changes that. With continuous temperature and arc-flash sensors, interoperating via Modbus RTU/TCP, Ethernet, and IEC-61850, the panel starts to correlate thermal trends, load profiles, and criticality levels — triggering alerts before the event occurs.

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It's the shift from reaction to prediction.

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Varixx Radio Monitoring Sensor

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Real Case: The Panel that Learned to Protect itself

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In a chemical plant, a 480 V switchboard showed intermittent faults. After being instrumented with ZYGGOT® THM+ARC, a gradual heating trend was detected on one busbar. Through ZYGGOT Cloud, the system correlated the temperature rise and recommended inspection before failure — preventing downtime and production loss.

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• Something impossible under a conventional model.

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Continuous Infrared Thermal Monitoring

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From Protection to Intelligence: The Varixx Approach

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Varixx unites electrical protection and continuous monitoring. The ZYGGOT® platform combines sensors, industrial interfaces, and native connectivity to generate contextualized operational data, transforming each panel into an intelligent node of industrial infrastructure.

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In practice, this means:

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1. Failure prediction through machine learning

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2. Dynamic maintenance integrated with EAM/CMMS platforms

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3. Traceability and compliance with key U.S. electrical safety and maintenance standards: 

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The Future of Protection

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Electrical protection hasn’t ended — it’s evolved. The future isn’t the panel that trips faster, but the one that rarely needs to trip at all — because it learned to predict.

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Varixx — Protection that sees before the risk. #CreatetoBond

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