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Industry Served

Medical

Challenge

Since babies are immediately placed in vital controlled environments and are sometimes transported, incubators and monitoring systems must have a constant power source.

Solution

The UPQ™ system allows total mobility of the Rescuitaire while supplying up to 30 minutes of perfect power.   

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The Customer

Hill-Rom / Air Shields is a leader in the field of medical equipment and, as part of its total health care product line, develops, manufactures, and markets a complete line of neonatal incubators and monitors.

Incubators and monitors are placed in hospitals to address the life support needs of premature babies. Vital factors being controlled by this equipment include temperature, oxygen, light, etc. Such equipment saves infant lives. It is reported that in some areas of the world infant mortality is over 20% due to the lack of such equipment. When neonatal incubation and monitoring are needed, power problems cannot be an issue.

Transport Challenge

Incubators and monitoring systems are placed in hospital delivery rooms. After delivery, babies are immediately placed in this vital controlled environment. Routinely units have been unplugged when transporting infants from delivery rooms to mothers, to the nurseries, or to other places in hospitals--or babies have been taken out of the incubators. Either way, a newborn’s environment is compromised.

Normal Power Risks

Normal utility power is subject to many spikes, dips, brownouts, noise, and frequency variations, as well as power outages. Any equipment connected to unprotected utility power is at risk. The majority of critical hospital equipment is only connected to local utility power.

While most hospitals report having generator backup to address power loss, generators are not adequate and do not address ongoing utility power quality problems. Generator transfers temporarily leave systems without power; and once generator power is running, the quality of the power is often compromised. Hospitals must assure that quality power is supplied to their very critical and sensitive medical equipment.

The Solution

The Power Innovations’ Uninterruptible Power Quality™ (UPQ™) system, developed for the Hill-Rom Resuscitaire, is medically certified, field installable, light weight, and easy to use. It is the first of its kind and is available for other existing and new Hill-Rom equipment as well.

UPQ systems allow total mobility of the Resuscitaire while supplying up to 30 minutes of perfect power. In addition, while a system is connected to utility power or generator power, the UPQ system isolates, filters, conditions, and regulates incoming power.

Competing Technology

In the past the number one issue in dealing with power was the backup of equipment in the event of power failure. The basis of typical UPS machines and generators on the market today is still backup power; however, hospitals need a new level of power generation and management tools that extend and enhance this most critical medical resource. Power Innovations’ UPQ systems address today’s number one power issue—power quality. While UPQ systems efficiently handle power backup, they are also designed to accept the power that is available, regardless of quality, and then isolate, filter, and regulate that power to provide pure, clean, reliable power to connected equipment.

UPQ- WHR1000™

Many of Power Innovations’ tested and proven innovative technologies and applications are implemented into the Q-Series™. This family of products is next generation technology for today’s marketplace. The UPQ-WHR1000 completely isolates, filters, and regulates impure and erratic input power. The Q-Series produces a reliable, consistent, pure sine wave output using high frequency power generation. It is technology that has been tested and certified for global application through all of the appropriate agencies.

Additional Benefits

As well as providing quality power to Hill-Rom / Air Shields neonatal products, the Power Innovations’ systems can also monitor and control their critical functions such as temperature, oxygen, light, etc. Through the UPQnet-agent II™ – via a network, an IP address or dial-up connection – a comprehensive, easy to understand, and secure Web page provides the vital information and control from the UPQ-WHR1000 and neonatal systems.

Power Innovations

Launched in 1997, Power Innovations has pioneered a revolutionary set of solutions to generate, store, and manage AC power. Power Innovations’ mission is to provide and manage continuous high-quality power in conjunction with, or even independent of, utility services worldwide. Power Innovations is helping forward-thinking companies accomplish this goal through a new class of technology called Uninterruptible Power Quality (UPQ).

Today, Power Innovations’ UPQ systems, coupled with its UPQnet-agent II™ IP management tools, assist organizations of every size in addressing the key issues surrounding power management. On its own, this is an area of tremendous need and opportunity that has Power Innovations poised for long-term success.

Power management is just one arm of Power Innovations’ long-term strategy. The company is involved in the development of a spectrum of solutions for power storage. Ultimately, Power Innovations will premier revolutionary solutions for the generation of new power. Together, these three areas are the foundation of Power Innovations’ long-term strategy.