Thermalpas field deployment (Taiwan) · Power & Electrical
TECOBAR busway: an overheating tap box flagged six months early
Factory-embedded sensors in prefab busway plug-in units for buildings and EV charging.
- 50Tap boxes per building
- 6 moAhead of scheduled inspection
- $80K/yrLabor saved vs. IR survey
The problem
In an office tower, hospital, or EV charging station, prefab busways run hundreds of meters across the ceiling, dropping power through plug-in tap boxes. Each tap is a potential hot spot — bumped during construction, loosened by thermal cycling — and the facility team can't easily see inside the busway housing once it's installed.
What was installed
Working with the manufacturer, Andakon (TECOBAR brand), a Thermalpas sensor was embedded in each plug-in unit at the factory, so every tap box arrives on site already instrumented. A per-building busway health dashboard shows every tap on every floor, color-coded by thermal condition.
The outcome
In one smart building, 50 tap boxes were instrumented. In the first year the system flagged a single overheating socket on the 14th floor six months before its scheduled inspection. Compared with annual infrared inspection, monitoring saves about $80,000 a year in labor per building.
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