Physical Security & Police Surveillance
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The SFC EFOY Pro fuel cell recharges the 12v or 24v battery automatically when the battery's voltage hits a specific threshold.
The pictures below show how a great deal of labor can be saved in a physical security, homeland security, or police surveillance network of remote mission-critical devices.
How can you be sure?
Security systems have to work around the clock, in any kind of weather, because they usually protect valuable or strategic properties. If the facilities are remote there will always be the risk of power availablity problems. More and more security services are opting for the compact and quiet EFOY Pro Series to power their mobile systems and surveillance cameras.
The EFOY Pro can be installed discreetly and securely for indoor or outdoor use. The device runs quietly and is also virtually emissions free. The EFOY dramatically reduces battery-charging labor time as well as lead-acid battery pollution.
The EFOY Pro is the attractive power solution for security facilities that require a low-maintenance, dependable source of power.
Stationary and Mobile Applications:
- Border-crossing surveillance monitoring
- Observation
- Traffic monitoring
- Entryway monitoring
- Events security
Mobile Applications:
- Mobile undercover observation
- Police cars and special vehicles
- Mobile offices
- Unmanned observation
- GPS tracking
An example
By using an EFOY Pro with EFOY Fuel Cartridges, weight can be reduced as the energy demand increases. The EFOY Fuel Cartridge combines great energy density with easy application and low costs. For example, for 10 KWh of electricity only ~18 lbs of fuel is needed, while batteries with the same energy density weigh around ~595 lbs.
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Traffic Management
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Maintenance-free Power Using the Fuel Cell
The Problem:
Both public and private road crews expend efforts making sure that traffic flows safely around construction sites. This means either laying power cables at great expense or regularly replacing dead batteries with fully charged ones. Without fuel cells a trailer carrying warning signage has to return to the shop for recharging every eight hours. In the meantime, another trailer must be towed out to the roadwork site.
This means high labor costs, daily travel, and frequent exposure to traffic hazards.
The Solution: Low-maintenance Power from a Fuel Cell
The EFOY Pro offers an attractive solution to carbon emissions, high lead-acid battery recycling costs, and calls to heighten workforce productivity. Fuel cells also provide low-maintenance, reliable, electrical power for remote traffic-control applications such as:
- Alternating-traffic signs
- Directional signals
- Speed-limit signs
- Blinkers in series
- Warning-light trailers
- Warning blinkers
Sensors
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Fuel Cells Provide No-maintenance Power
The remote power logistics for operating sensors can be monumental. Pressure is mounting world-wide to reduce costs and boost power source efficiency. The EFOY Pro presents an attractive, low-maintenance alternative for reliably powering remote telecommunications and metering equipment such as:
- Level gauges used in flood and tsunami early-warning systems
- Water-quality meters
- Biological and geological instruments
- Remote servicing stations
- Vehicle-based measurement instruments
- Electromagnetic-wave meters
- Digital BOS transmission/TETRA etc.
EFOY fuel cells are at work today providing clean, reliable energy to numerous environmental sensors and telecommunications facilities located in remote areas. Using EFOY fuel cells has lessened need to travel long distances to replace batteries or refuel generators, which in turn has reduced costs and environmental harm.
A Practical Example:
Before: No EFOY Pro fuel cell
For example, a 10-watt level sensor requires 240 watt hours per day for continuous operation. A 60 Ah lead-acid battery can supply enough power for three days. To replace the battery from a base camp 60 miles away will cost $ 60 in gas & car expense (120 miles @ $.50). Add to that three hours of loaded wages @ $100, equaling $300 additional cost. The total cost per trip is thus approximately $ 360 per day trip, not including the time it takes to recharge the replaced batteries at your home base, battery replacement and disposal costs, and the environmental costs associated with lead acid battery pollution. In this example, that would mean your costs would exceed $ 1000 every week just to manage your old battery replacement logistics.Many cases, however, involve a lot more travel. Some metering devices located in nature preserves or along oil and gas pipelines are only reachable by helicopter. The cost here: $ 7000 per hour!
The bottom line is that batteries represent: difficult logistics, frequent labor associated with travel, short autonomy, a great deal of battery recharging & replacement work, and a pollution source.
After: With an EFOY Pro fuel cell
One EFOY Pro equipped with an M28 EFOY fuel cartridge will power the level sensor for 130 days – nearly 4 ½ months – reliably, quietly, cleanly, and completely maintenance-free.The SFC EFOY Fuel Cell can also be used in Industrial Communications and many other fields.
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