Lightning Detection and Alerting Services
Experience the power of advanced lightning protection with our Storm Tracking and Lightning Alerting system. Designed for accuracy, our technology to ensure you receive real-time alerts about impending storms. Calculate the exact time of arrival and location of severe weather down to the minute, giving you the actionable insights you need to protect staff , assets and your property.
⚡ Real-Time ⚡ Lightning Alerts
“Real-time lightning data.
Smarter planning, faster response.”
“Protect your people and assets. Delivered to every device, across your business.”
“Turn lightning data into action. Alerts on any device help you plan better and respond faster.”
Storm Monitoring Visualisation
“See Every Strike. Track Every Storm. Stay Ahead.”
🔹 Technical Accuracy (clear, detailed and accurate)
“Real-time storm monitoring with geographic lightning strike plotting provides immediate spatial visualisation and precise distance calculations to nearby strikes for accurate situational awareness.”
⚡ Critical Decisions Made ⚡ Easy
Stay Ahead of the Storm
The Eeko Lightning Network protects industries that operate outdoors or in the air. If your people, operations, or supply chain are exposed, lightning isn’t just weather—it’s risk.
Real-Time Storm Intelligence
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Live strike tracking with our GIS platform, Stormtracker
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Satellite-enhanced accuracy + real-time forecasts
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Custom site views to monitor risk across your infrastructure
Protect People, Protect Assets
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GPS push alerts warn users of nearby lightning in real time
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Track lightning + precipitation as it happens
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Make safer, faster operational decisions when storms develop
Data That Proves Your Case
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8 years of archived lightning history
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Report-ready analytics for compliance, risk assessments, and insurance claims
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Advanced calculation tools for precise, defensible insights
With Eeko Lightning Network, storms stop being unpredictable threats—
they become data-driven decisions.
EN54-3 Type B Compliant
Precision Lightning Alerting Safety for High-Risk Areas
🎯 Protect key zones with real-time alerts:
✔️ Main Gate (Visitors & Contractors)
✔️ Workshops
✔️Wash-Bays
✔️ Fuel
✔️Explosives Depots
✔️ Crusher Plants
✔️Mine Camps
🔊 Complete Alert System:
✅ Hardware Sensor + Siren + Flashing Lights
✅ Digital Signage & Custom Logo Alert Zones
✅ EN54-3 Type B Compliant
✅ AI-Powered to Reduce False Alarms
✅ Auto-connects to any lightning detection network
📍 Tailored to Your Site. Built for Harsh Conditions.
Where Precision Meets Protection.
Remote Solar Alert Units
240 Volt Units
Key Benefits of CMCE Devices for Data Centers
Residential Lightning Suppressor
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PROTECT YOUR COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE FROM LIGHTNING DAMAGE
Lightning strikes pose a significant threat, capable of causing catastrophic damage such as fires and equipment failures. These events can lead to devastating financial losses and operational downtime. Implementing robust lightning protection is critical to safeguard buildings, security systems, and electronic infrastructure. Most importantly, it ensures the safety of employees, contractors, and the public during high-risk weather events.
Recreation and Sports Fields
Costing Millions of Dollars in asset Damages
and loss of Production
Lightning Alert Sinage Display Boards
STOPS ALL GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES
Industries
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Nursing Homes Maritime Ports e911 Centers
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Senior Living Airport Operations Military
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Hospitals Large Venue Outdoor Events Police Department
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Colleges Parks and Recreation Fire Department
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Nuclear Power Data Centres ELC Department
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PV Solar Construction sites Mining
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Wind Turbines Airports Power Generation
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Microgrids Sports fields Ports
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Hydro Homes Offshore Rigs
PetroChemical Buildings and infrastructures Explosive Depots
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Oil & Gas Industriel Batteries Solar Farms Feul Depots
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Refinery Communication Towers Workshops
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Storage Feul Depots Factories
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Terminals Heavy Duty Vehicle Parkup area
Lightning Alerts via Computer, Ipad, mobile,
email and two-way Radio
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24/7 Protection: Ensure continuous uptime during storms.
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Cost-Effective: Save on potential downtime, equipment damage, and repairs.
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Minimal Maintenance: Once installed, CMCE devices require little to no ongoing maintenance, providing peace of mind for data center operators.
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Proven Reliability: Trusted by industries that rely on secure and uninterrupted operations.
In a world where data centers are the lifeblood of global business operations, protecting these critical facilities from lightning strikes is essential. CMCE devices provide the most reliable and advanced solution for preventing lightning damage and ensuring that data centers can operate without interruption. Don’t wait until a lightning strike costs your facility thousands or even millions of dollars in downtime—invest in proactive protection with CMCE devices from Eeko Lightning Solutions.
Please reach out to us today to learn more about how CMCE devices can protect your data center and keep your operations running smoothly, no matter the weather.
Lightning Protection for Data Centers
Why CMCE Devices Are Critical for Preventing Downtime
In today’s data-driven world, data centers are the backbone of global business operations. They power everything from cloud services to critical infrastructure and financial systems. However, one often overlooked threat to these essential facilities is lightning strikes. A single lightning strike can cause severe electrical damage, disrupt operations, and lead to costly downtime. With the growing reliance on continuous uptime, protecting data centers from lightning-related incidents has never been more crucial.
This is where CMCE (Controlled Magnetic Charge Emission) devices come in. Unlike traditional lightning rods, CMCE devices neutralize the electric field around a facility, preventing lightning from forming and ensuring uninterrupted service for data centers. Let’s explore why lightning protection is essential for data centers and why CMCE devices are the most effective solution.
The Risk of Lightning Strikes for Data Centers
Data centers house complex and sensitive electrical equipment that is highly vulnerable to power surges and outages caused by lightning strikes. Lightning strikes are a leading cause of electrical surges that can damage power systems, routers, servers, and other crucial infrastructure within a facility. Even indirect lightning strikes, which occur nearby but not directly on a data center, can induce electrical surges that travel through the power grid, wreaking havoc on equipment.
Here’s why data centers are particularly vulnerable:
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Continuous Operations: Data centers require 24/7 uptime, and even a brief interruption can lead to major financial losses and disruptions for customers.
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Sensitive Equipment: The servers, routers, and power systems in a data center are highly sensitive to electrical fluctuations and surges caused by lightning strikes.
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Interconnected Systems: Data centers are often part of a broader network, so a lightning strike on one system can ripple out, affecting other interconnected systems and facilities.
When lightning strikes, the consequences can range from damaged equipment and power outages to prolonged downtime. For data centers, which are responsible for supporting critical services like cloud storage, banking systems, and internet services, the costs of downtime can be astronomical—both financially and in terms of reputation.
Why CMCE Devices Are Essential for Lightning Protection in Data Centers
Traditional lightning rods work by providing a path for lightning to travel safely to the ground. While effective to a degree, this approach only addresses the damage after a lightning strike occurs. It does not prevent the strike itself, nor does it protect the sensitive electronics within a facility from the electromagnetic surges that often accompany lightning strikes.
CMCE devices, on the other hand, provide proactive protection. These devices neutralize the electric field in the surrounding area, preventing lightning from forming in the first place. Here’s how CMCE devices offer superior protection for data centers:
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Proactive Lightning Prevention: Instead of redirecting lightning after it strikes, CMCE devices prevent lightning from forming around the data center, protecting both the building and its critical systems.
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Surge Protection for Sensitive Equipment: By preventing lightning strikes, CMCE devices help avoid electrical surges that can cause irreparable damage to sensitive servers, routers, and power systems.
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Reduced Downtime: The biggest advantage of CMCE devices for data centers is the ability to maintain continuous operations. With no lightning strikes and no resulting electrical damage, data centers can operate 24/7 without fear of unexpected outages.
The Cost of Downtime for Data Centers
According to industry reports, the cost of downtime for data centers can reach as much as $10,000+ per minute. This includes not just repair costs but also lost revenue, penalties, and damage to reputation. Downtime can also affect service level agreements (SLAs), leading to further financial repercussions. Even a short outage caused by lightning can result in millions of dollars in losses, especially for facilities supporting critical infrastructure like banking, government services, and cloud storage.
Installing CMCE devices in data centers provides a cost-effective solution to minimize the risk of lightning-induced downtime, protecting both equipment and revenue streams.
Why Choose Eeko Lightning Solutions for Lightning Protection?
At Eeko Lightning Solutions, we specialize in protecting high-risk facilities like data centers from the dangers of lightning strikes. Our CMCE devices are the most advanced lightning protection technology available, offering a proactive solution that prevents lightning strikes before they occur. With minimal maintenance requirements and a track record of success in a variety of industries, CMCE devices offer the long-term protection that data centers need.
Telecom: Protecting the Backbone of Communication
Cell towers, relay stations, and other telecom structures are critical links in our communication networks — and they are highly vulnerable to lightning. Their height and often isolated locations make them natural lightning magnets. A single strike can destroy equipment, knock out services, and cause widespread disruption, especially in storm-prone regions.
Traditional grounding systems and surge protectors help redirect energy, but they don’t stop the strike itself — and the risk of surge damage to connected systems remains. That’s where CMCE comes in.
✔ CMCE technology prevents the formation of upward streamers, eliminating the initial stage that allows lightning to strike a tower or its immediate surroundings.
✔ Continuous, passive protection that requires no power or external maintenance.
✔ Ideal for high-storm regions like the Southeast and Midwest, where telecom infrastructure faces frequent lightning exposure.
By proactively protecting towers, CMCE helps ensure network reliability, reduce repair costs, and maintain public safety.
Why Oil & Gas, Mining, Telecom, and Data Centers Are Turning to CMCE for Lightning Protection
Critical infrastructure is the backbone of modern life. From powering cities and fueling industries to keeping people connected and data secure, systems like oil and gas facilities, telecommunications networks, and data centers play a vital role. But these essential operations face an often-underestimated threat: lightning. With more severe weather events and a growing reliance on sensitive technology, many of these industries are turning to advanced solutions like CMCE (Charge Motion Control Equipment) to proactively prevent lightning strikes before they can do damage.
In this article, we’ll explore why traditional lightning protection falls short, how CMCE technology offers a game-changing solution, and why industries that can’t afford downtime are adopting it.
The Growing Risk: Lightning and Critical Infrastructure
Lightning strikes may seem like rare, isolated events, but their impact is anything but minor. The U.S. sees 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes each year, contributing to $8–10 billion in lightning-related losses annually. These costs stem from fires, equipment destruction, power outages, service interruptions, and in some tragic cases, injuries or loss of life.
Climate trends are intensifying this risk. Studies have shown an increase in storm frequency and severity, particularly across high-risk regions like Texas, Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the Midwest. Lightning season — typically May through September — is stretching longer, with more violent storms threatening operations.
For industries where uptime, safety, and asset protection are non-negotiable, waiting for lightning to strike and reacting afterward is no longer good enough.
Your On Site Saftey Matters Most
Alert Board
Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, it provides accurate and timely alerts on-site regarding the lightning danger level. With this proactive tool, you can manage risks effectively and safeguard the well-being of everyone around you during stormy weather.
Real-Time Alerting
With our real-time alerting service for lightning, you’ll never be caught off guard during a storm. Get immediate alerts that allow you to take swift action and protect what matters. Perfect for businesses, outdoor enthusiasts, and anyone who needs timely weather updates, our system is your trusted companion in severe weather conditions.
Difference between Lightning Rod Protection and Lightning Suppression.
●Lightning rod protection systems are designed to minimize the damage caused by a lightning strike by attracting the lightning bolt providing a safe path for the lightning current to follow. Still attracting the lightning strike that can travel along wet ground surfaces. Surges still accurs and damage to equipment and injuries to staff.
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Lightning Protection Suppression system stops, upward
lightning flares and prevents the development of all lightning ground strikes within the device coverage radius.
The primary goal of Lightning Protection Suppression Unit is to prevent lightning from causing harm to people, structures and equipment.
How the Protection Suppression Unit works
THREE DIFFERENT SIZES
CMCE 120 METER RADIUS, CMCE 55 METER RADIUS AND CMCE 25 METER RADIUS
Lightning Protection Suppressor protected area
CMCE 120M Radius Unit
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Mining Lightning safety
NO Lightning Ground Strikes have been recorded in the RED protected zone area in the last 15 years.
Verified, Certified and Tested with Full Insurance Protection.
No Lightning Ground Strikes in the Protected Lightning Suppressor Zone
Confirmed by Vaisala Historical Data Report Global Lightning Network
Lightning Protection Suppressor
The Multiple Electric Field Compensator (MEFC) is an advanced lightning protection system that neutralizes electrical field imbalances, preventing lightning strikes within its coverage area. By absorbing and safely dissipating excess charges, it eliminates upward lightning streamers and ensures a secure environment.
How It Works
Operates as an electrostatic current passive capturing system.
Maintains a balanced electric field within its three-dimensional radius.
Coverage Radius
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120m: Large industrial sites, oil rigs, mines, and energy farms.
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55m: Light industrial and commercial facilities.
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25m: Homes, small factories, businesses, and sports fields.
Charge Management
Absorbs surrounding electromagnetic charges.
Internally arranges charges to prevent lightning formation.
Industry Applications
- Used in mining, ports, airports, oil & gas refineries, energy farms, Communication Centers, Data Centers, Telcom Towers and construction sites.