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Power Intelligence identifies $50 million critical power problem at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
The Challenge
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport serves over 100 million passengers annually — roughly 275,000 per day. The airport's electrical infrastructure is among the most complex of any civilian facility in the world, serving safety-critical systems including runway lighting, instrument landing systems, air traffic control power, baggage handling, and HVAC across terminals spanning millions of square feet.
Traditional inspection regimes — periodic manual thermographic surveys conducted by technicians with handheld cameras — were inadequate for the scale and criticality of the facility. Between inspection cycles, developing fault conditions could progress undetected for months.
What PI Found
- A developing fault condition in a critical section of the airport's power distribution infrastructure, undetected by previous inspection programs
- Sigma Delta Tau analytics identified the anomaly as a progressive, accelerating fault — not a one-time reading artifact
- Without intervention, the fault trajectory indicated catastrophic failure with an estimated $50M in damages
- Early detection allowed a planned corrective maintenance intervention during a low-traffic window — at a fraction of the cost of emergency repair and with zero passenger impact
Georgia Power selects Power Intelligence for automated infrared monitoring at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
The Challenge
Mercedes-Benz Stadium is one of the most technologically advanced sports and entertainment venues in the world. As the home of the Atlanta Falcons (NFL) and Atlanta United FC (MLS), it regularly hosts 75,000 attendees for events broadcast nationally and internationally.
Georgia Power required a monitoring solution that could provide continuous assurance of power system reliability for an infrastructure serving both life safety systems and revenue-critical operations — across a facility with massive, event-driven load variation.
The Solution
- Georgia Power engaged Power Intelligence to deploy automated infrared monitoring across the stadium's power distribution infrastructure
- ScanIR persistent cameras installed at strategic monitoring points throughout electrical rooms and distribution equipment
- PowerIntel analytics builds adaptive baselines that account for dramatic load variation between events, setup days, and off-season periods
- Continuous Sigma Delta Tau monitoring provides pre-event power system health confirmation — ensuring reliability when it matters most
- Integration with Georgia Power's operations and maintenance programs for seamless alert response
Persistent thermal monitoring enhances balance-of-plant reliability at a U.S. nuclear generation facility
The Challenge
Nuclear generation plants operate under the most rigorous reliability and regulatory standards in any civilian industry. Balance-of-plant electrical systems — which support every auxiliary function from cooling water to emergency diesel generators — must meet the same zero-defect standard as primary safety systems.
The facility's existing predictive maintenance program relied on periodic thermographic inspections that could only be performed during outages or low-power windows. A persistent monitoring layer was needed to provide continuous condition awareness between scheduled inspection events.
The Solution
- Power Intelligence deployed persistent far-field thermography across switchgear lineups, motor control centers, and BOP electrical rooms — from safe distances outside energized equipment boundaries
- The Neuron Field Data Collectors aggregated thermal data alongside existing process and protection relay data for multi-variable correlation
- SDT analytics built baselines for every measurement point across all operating modes and seasonal variations
- Multiple developing thermal anomalies identified during the initial monitoring period — all resolved during the next planned outage window before reaching corrective maintenance thresholds
- Continuous data stream supports 10 CFR 50 Maintenance Rule documentation and NRC inspection readiness
PowerVault enables continuous monitoring of underground vault infrastructure previously unmonitorable
The Challenge
Urban utilities rely heavily on underground distribution infrastructure — network transformers, switches, and cable systems housed in subsurface vaults. These assets are among the most difficult to monitor in the entire distribution system: confined spaces, hazardous atmospheres, and inaccessibility during normal operations mean they are typically inspected only on long cycles or reactively after failures.
Vault failures in urban environments carry severe consequences: extended outages affecting dense customer populations, hazardous gas accumulation, and structural damage requiring major civil work to repair.
The Solution
- PowerVault units deployed in underground vaults — providing continuous thermal imaging of transformer bodies, cable terminations, and joints from within the vault
- Multi-sensor monitoring: thermal, gas detection (methane, CO, hydrogen), moisture/flooding, and intrusion detection in a single integrated unit
- The Neuron hub at the surface aggregates data from multiple vault units via mesh communication — no trench work required
- PowerIntel analytics provides fleet-level visibility across all monitored vaults from a single dashboard
- Several developing cable termination failures identified during the first monitoring year — each corrected at planned work windows before causing an outage
Your facility could be our next case study.
Talk to a Power Intelligence engineer about what persistent thermal monitoring would find in your infrastructure — before something else does.