Smart environmental control system for an enclosure with diagnostics

摘要

Environmental conditions within an enclosure containing critical equipment and devices are monitored and when outside of acceptable parameters corrective action is taken to modify these environmental conditions so as to bring them within acceptable limits. Unless an environmental condition is outside of an acceptable limit, no energy expenditure is made by the environmental conditioning equipment since it does not need to be in use. When the environmental conditioning equipment is called into operation, its environmental modification influence is monitored to determine if the expected environmental modification is occurring within an expected time period(s). If the expected environmental modification does not occur within the expected time period, and/or does not occur at an expected time rate of change, then an alarm is generated to indicate that maintenance may be required for the environmental conditioning equipment.

主权项

1. A monitoring and control system, said system comprising:
at least one operational electrical component; environmental conditioning equipment; environmental monitoring and control equipment coupled to and controlling the environmental conditioning equipment; at least one environmental sensor coupled to the environmental monitoring and control equipment; and an electrical enclosure containing therein the at least one operational electrical component and the at least one environmental sensor, wherein the electrical enclosure complies with the National Electrical Manufacturers Association standards for electrical enclosures, wherein the at least one environmental sensor measures at least one environmental parameter within the electrical enclosure, wherein the environmental monitoring and control equipment activates the environmental conditioning equipment when the at least one environmental parameter within the electrical enclosure measured by the at least one environmental sensor is outside of a desired range, maintains activation of the environmental conditioning equipment until the at least one environmental parameter within the electrical enclosure as measured by the at least one environmental sensor is in the desired range, and subsequently deactivates the environmental conditioning equipment; and wherein the environmental monitoring and control equipment determines a time period in which the environmental monitoring and control equipment is active and a rate of change of the at least one environmental parameter during activation of the environmental monitoring and control equipment.