PVProtect english 

The roofs of many in­dus­trial and com­mer­cial build­ings are cur­rently being equipped or ret­ro­fit­ted with photo­vol­taic sys­tems to har­ness solar power. If a fail­ure to these sys­tems oc­curs and the roof­ing catches fire, it can spread quickly along the en­tire roof struc­ture. The res­ult can be ser­i­ous dam­age to the fa­cil­it­ies and high costs due to op­er­a­tional down­time, re­pairs and re­place­ments, if not com­plete de­struc­tion of the build­ing.
PV­Pro­tect there­fore uses a hol­istic pro­tec­tion concept to shield lives and prop­erty from fire dam­age caused by PV sys­tems: lin­ear heat de­tect­ors mon­itor the area below the photo­vol­taic mod­ules for un­usual tem­per­at­ure in­creases. This al­lows for fires to be de­tec­ted early and loc­ated ac­cur­ately. In the event of a fire, PV­Pro­tect auto­mat­ic­ally ini­ti­ates the sup­pres­sion to pre­vent un­con­trolled spread­ing. Sim­ul­tan­eously, the sys­tem alerts the emer­gency ser­vices and dis­trib­utes a warn­ing sig­nal for people on site to en­able safe evac­u­ation of af­fected areas.