Monitoring of the electrical-continuity chain — UPS and standby generators, with the ATS and main switchboard as supporting signals — so a backup that is not ready surfaces before the outage it was meant to cover, not during it, and the site stays online: an office building's tenants and critical rooms, or a bank branch's ATMs, teller and core-banking systems, security, and comms. Monitors readiness ("will the backup take the load, and for how long?"), not just "broken now." Continuity links to the other monitoring add-ons for the layers they already cover — Chiller Plant Monitoring (critical-environment cooling), Fire Detection & Suppression Monitoring, and Vertical Transport Monitoring — which read alongside continuity but stay separate add-ons.
Impact: Turns silent backup failure into readiness caught before the outage, not during it — a fading UPS bank, a generator left in MANUAL, or a shrinking ride-through is surfaced and referred to the electrical / power vendor while there is still time to fix it, rather than discovered when the primary source drops and the backup does not take the load.
What it solves: A site's backup-power systems — the UPS that bridges a transfer and the standby generator that carries the load while fuel lasts — exist for the moment the primary source fails, and that is exactly when their health is invisible. In an office building that continuity keeps tenants and critical rooms online; in a bank branch it keeps the branch transacting — ATMs dispensing, teller and core-banking systems reachable, security and comms up — so a grid dip does not close the branch. Backup fails silently: a dead start battery, an aged UPS bank, a generator left in MANUAL after service — the failure is discovered during the outage it was supposed to cover. Keedian monitors readiness across the electrical-continuity chain — UPS state of charge, battery health, transfer and discharge events; generator AUTO mode, start battery, fuel, and last real test; the ATS and main switchboard as supporting signals — and raises an alarm when a backup point is not ready or its ride-through is thinning. The other continuity layers stay with their own add-ons: critical-environment cooling (CRAC / data-center) with Chiller Plant Monitoring, fire detection and suppression with Fire Detection & Suppression Monitoring, and elevators / escalators with Vertical Transport Monitoring — they read alongside continuity but this add-on does not absorb them. The boundary is Keedian's field-services model: Keedian shows state and readiness, routes a not-ready backup to the responsible vendor, and keeps the evidence and audit trail. Keedian does NOT control or maintain the asset — the UPS, batteries, generator, and their service stay with the customer's electrical / power vendor.
These are the operational metrics this add-on monitors and alarms on. Keedian surfaces them and, where the contract includes managed service, triages them; acting on the physical asset stays with you and your vendors.
The core metrics are summarized below. Full methodology, thresholds, diagnosis steps, and escalation criteria are in the Metrics Catalog.
The building's electrical-continuity rollup: the share of critical backup points that are both ready and have their redundancy available right now — a UPS on line with a healthy battery, a generator in AUTO with fuel and a good last test, the ATS armed to transfer. A point that is degraded, in a fault or bypass state, or has lost its redundancy drops out of posture. It answers the one question backup exists for: if the primary source fails this minute, does the backup take the load? Target 100% of critical points ready.
Full detail → Metrics CatalogEstimated ride-through time for a building's critical load if the primary source fails now — the UPS bridges the transfer on battery, then the standby generator carries the load while fuel lasts. It answers "for how long?", the second half of the readiness question posture answers with "yes or no". A shrinking estimate — an aging battery bank, a low fuel tank — is a continuity risk building silently. Compared against the building's agreed minimum autonomy.
Full detail → Metrics CatalogWhether the UPS will actually bridge the transfer when the primary source fails: battery-bank health and capacity versus nominal, state of charge, estimated autonomy minutes, transfer-to-battery events, and the last discharge-test result. A UPS looks fine on its panel right up to the moment a tired battery bank collapses under load — this metric surfaces the fade, the on-battery and bypass events, and the failed self-test before the outage that would expose them.
Full detail → Metrics CatalogThe one question a standby generator has to answer — will it start and take the load when the UPS bridge runs out? Read from AUTO-mode state, start-battery health, fuel level, and the last real test (did it start within its start-seconds window and actually take load). A generator left in MANUAL after service, a dead start battery, or a test that never really loaded the set are the silent faults discovered during the outage — this metric surfaces them beforehand.
Full detail → Metrics CatalogEach metric includes definition, detection logic, diagnosis steps, recommended actions, escalation criteria, and prevention controls. Thresholds are reference values to be calibrated per client.
View Metrics Catalog →Backup posture stays at or above target with redundancy intact, ride-through autonomy is tracked against the building's agreed minimum, and there are zero not-ready critical backups — a UPS bridge and a generator that will start and take load when called. Expected (pending validation) — offices have no named Keedian reference deployment yet.
Model A or B per building, scoped per building. UPS read over SNMP (UPS-MIB, RFC 1628) or Modbus (APC / Eaton / Vertiv / Legrand); standby generator over Modbus on the controller (DeepSea / ComAp / Woodward) or dry contacts to the BMS; the ATS and a multifunction meter on the main switchboard as supporting signals. In a Model B building the same signals are read from the BMS. No sensor-by-sensor cost modeling — instrumentation is scoped per building.
The readiness alarms in scope are managed on the same 24/7 basis as the rest of the contract — surfaced, triaged, and referred to the customer's electrical / power vendor with a recommended action.
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