• Group 2 medical locations carry extremely high risk levels, and need careful evaluation during the design phase. This technical guide will help electrical engineers and planners who are designing medical locations to better and quickly understand the standard and how to fulfill stringent requirements, still matching technical needs.
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, where BIM verified and structured data can be beneficial also for maintenance
• Selectivity tools (i.e. IEC 61850, Ekip Link) and E-design software 
• Engineering tools for building automation
• Pre-fabricated, digital switchgears and solutions - to make project execution more flexible and be prepared for future extension

Healthcare facilities often combine ordinary areas and medical locations, which have special stringent requirements for electrical installation, according to IEC 60364-7-710 standard, which regulates electrical installations in medical environments.

According to the use and risk level, the facility areas need to ensure safety of patients and medical staff, and prevent risk of electrical hazards.

ABB has specific solutions to comply with safety requirements to protect the electrical system:

• IT medical switchboards and protection devices for group 2 medical locations, according to IEC 60364-7-710 standard
• Ultra-fast earthing switch, protecting medium and low-voltage switchgears against dangerous arc events
• Neogear touch-safe low-voltage switchgear
• Emergency lighting solutions
• Furse solution to earthing, lightning and electronic systems protection
• Cable protection to meet strict hygienic requirements

Power outages or blackouts in critical power applications such as hospitals, veterinary centers, beauty clinics, medical and dental premises can be life-threatening. ABB provides solutions for reliable power distribution and protection, and comprehensive load management system, to ensure the availability of power and reduce downtime, without causing damage to patients, medical staff or connected medical equipment.

Benefits for customers:

• Downtime and unforeseen events risk minimized
• Critical operations keep running 24/7
• Efficient and cost-saving maintenance interventions

Our solutions:

Sub-distribution

• Selective main circuit breakers, to provide selectivity in the energy distribution
• SMISSLINE TP finger-proof pluggable line protection
• Enclosures
• DIN rail components

Automation of building functions such as heating, lighting and shading, brings several advantages, not only to healthcare facility owners and managers for optimal centralized control.

Benefits for customers:

• Patient-centric care delivery, with rooms designed to increase patient comfort and improve healing and recovery time (e.g. Human Centric Lighting, voice control, access control, alarming, antibacterial switch ranges, indoor air quality control)
• Improved medical staff well-being and productivity, with devices, systems and dashboards to ease health care activities (e.g. optimized contact time between patient-nurse, ventilation and light settings etc.)
• Improved patients satisfaction

Our solutions:

• Nurse calling system: Available only for IT standard
• Switch ranges
• HVAC control: Cylon solution and ClimaEco intelligent HVAC solution on KNX basis
• ABB i-bus® KNX system: Devices and tools for highly flexible building automation system

Hospitals and labs emit 4.4% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions through energy consumption, transport, and product manufacture, use, and disposal.¹ Furthermore, healthcare facilities are increasingly exposed to budgetary burdens, standards compliance and efficiency mandates.

Whether it’s a new or existing electrical system, by giving access to powerful data, ABB smart and scalable solutions for energy and asset management allow to optimize the facility performance by measuring and monitoring (sub-meter, branch-monitor, check on power quality), predicting actions and maintenance, and checking system effectiveness.

Benefits for customers:

• Significant improvements on OpEx and environmental impact
• Savings coming from optimized energy use and no risk of penalties thanks to efficiency standards compliance
• Increase ROI and unlock further capital investments to foster quality care and safety of patients and medical staff

Our solutions:

• Scalable solutions for Energy and asset management in buildings
• Smart Metering and Monitoring
• ABB i-bus® KNX system: Devices and tools for highly flexible building automation system
• ABB i-bus KNX IoT Dashboard: Installation data monitoring, for pre-emptive maintenance and responsive facility management
• EV charging solutions