Overall overview and understanding of electrical installation

Leeuwarden Medical Center now has real control

For hospitals, it is critical that facilities are always on. That while they are becoming increasingly complex. At Leeuwarden Medical Center, fortop replaced the time-consuming process of monitoring by hand with smart power analyzers from Janitza. At the touch of a button in the DCEM Power Management monitoring system, these provide real-time insight into exactly what is happening in the installation and convert the data into useful management information. This provides a total overview and real control throughout the hospital.

Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden (MCL) is a top clinical hospital in Leeuwarden and Harlingen for acute, high-complex and basic care in Friesland. The hospital is focused on research, education and continuous innovation and improvements in treatments. But MCL is also constantly looking at how it can operate more reliably and sustainably through innovation. To gain better insight into its electrical installation, it partnered with fortop. "Installations should always be on in a hospital, no matter what. Even as they become increasingly complex," opens Arjan Pit, sales manager energy control at fortop. After all, these are super-critical applications; people's lives literally depend on them. "The need for reliable information is increasing to keep it always up-and-running."

Power analyzers measure continuously

In the MCL, the monitoring of the electrical installation was still done manually. A notepad was used to visit the installations every month to write down the kWh readings. "Before we collaborated with fortop, we had to visit the installations a lot ourselves to monitor and see what was going on," recalls Rients Agema, MCL coordinating installation manager. "Then we were quickly a month away before we could give an answer at all." Fortop changed that. Pit: "What we did initially was add power analyzers from Janitza. These chart exactly what is happening in the installation. Think of the consumption, but also what about the quality and reliability of your power. They actually make a kind of movie of the installation. That way you can look back in history if there have been any outages, to track down what the possible cause was."

Turning data into management information

A huge improvement. The power analyzers transmit their data to fortop's DCEM Power Management monitoring system. This creates a continuous process of measurement, monitoring and improvement. Data from measuring instruments, switches and UPSs are converted to real-time alarms, visualizations and reports. This information is accessible via a user-friendly web interface on all devices with a standard web browser. The package is infinitely scalable in number of users, functions, data points and locations. "Without it, we are actually blind," Agema explains. "Then we would find it very difficult to assess situations. But if my manager now comes asking if we can still integrate a CT scanner or an MRI somewhere, I can quickly see with the push of a button whether that still fits into our installation."

Complete control and overview

Agema is therefore particularly satisfied with the cooperation with fortop: "It gives a very good feeling that I am in control and that we can approach all situations with this super. I think the system is fantastic because we have a total overview of the entire hospital. As a result, I can always act quickly and appropriately in complex situations." Fortop also appreciates the interaction with MCL. "You need customers like this. We get a lot of critical feedback to make our package better and better. Especially with the challenge we face with healthcare. If we want to be energy neutral by 2050, there are still a lot of things to do. Then a power monitoring system like this is actually an indispensable link. You use that to provide the answers to the things that will be needed 30 years from now," concludes Pit.