Davicom’s DVLD Lightning Detector is an add-on sensor for Davicom’s line of Intelligent Remote Monitoring and Control Systems. It is based on a circuit that is designed to automatically detect the approach of lightning storms by analyzing and recognizing the electromagnetic signature of lightning strikes. In addition, the circuit contains a hardwired averaging and distance estimation algorithm that provides the distance to the leading edge of the storm.
Together, the DVLD and Davicom units can be used to detect approaching lightning storms, to send alarms when the storm reaches a certain minimum distance, to de-activate or disconnect sensitive equipment and even to log the storm’s track.
