Network Health product overview

With the Network Health product you can visualize the performance of the lightning sensor network. The product uses a color-coded, gridded representation of the performance estimate generated by the Total Lightning Processor.

Performance statistics are obtained in two ways:

  • If enough lightning is present in a region, performance metrics are obtained from the lightning location data.

  • If lightning is not present, sensor status is based on the sensors that can participate in that region.

A full active display IRIS Focus license with an advanced feature IRIS Lightning Network Health license is required to run the Network Health product.

The Network Health product data is provided by your local Total Lightning Processor system. It uses statistical information derived from the lightning data produced by the system, as well as the status and configuration of LF lightning sensors connected to the TLP. Network Health is not available for lightning data brought in from external providers such as the GLD360, or from lightning data provided by VHF-based sensors. If a Total Lightning Processor is configured with a mix of LF and VHF lightning detectors, only information from the LF detectors will be used by the health modeling algorithms.

Figure 1. Network Health visualization
1 Lightning data: courtesy of Transpower New Zealand Ltd.