From satellite launch pads to airport runways, provincial power grids to offshore oil facilities — named deployments with verified outcomes across Asia and beyond.
Singapore Changi Airport records 9,903 average annual minutes of lightning risk — more than any other major airport globally, and 46% more than the second-most exposed. Lightning events disrupt ground operations, threaten ground crew safety, and damage critical airport infrastructure. The Ionguard 150 trial at Changi is designed to demonstrate charge neutralisation performance across the protected area, provide field strength reduction data, and establish the basis for facility-wide deployment planning.
Lightning events on metro overhead lines and signalling infrastructure cause service disruptions, equipment failures, and safety shutdowns with immediate operational and reputational consequences. On the ShenZhen GuanKang metro line, Ionguard neutralised 83 lightning events within four days of deployment — a result that validated the system's performance under high-frequency tropical storm conditions and provided the data foundation for wider network rollout.
The stakes at a satellite launch facility are absolute — a single lightning event near the launch pad can destroy the vehicle, terminate the mission, and set programmes back by years. Ionguard protects the JiuQuan Satellite Launch Site using the same charge neutralisation principle NASA deployed to protect the Apollo launch pad in 1971. The continuity of this technology from Kennedy Space Center to JiuQuan represents over five decades of refinement in the most demanding application environment possible.
A lightning strike on a transmission pylon can trigger cascading failures across entire regional grids, affecting millions of customers and creating liability exposure that extends far beyond the immediate infrastructure cost. Ionguard is deployed across power pylons in LiaoNing, ShangDong, ChongQing, ShanXi, and Shenzhen provincial power grids, with greater than 90% strike probability reduction verified on Southern Power Grid transmission lines — the most rigorous field validation in the system's deployment history.
Petrochemical facilities and offshore oil platforms carry a category of lightning risk that is qualitatively different from other industries — a direct strike near fuel storage or processing equipment can trigger consequences that are catastrophic, irreversible, and massively reputational. Petronas Malaysia has deployed Ionguard across facilities where conventional grounding is either impractical or insufficient. The system's solar-powered, infrastructure-free deployment model makes it uniquely suited to offshore and remote petrochemical installations.
Singapore's equatorial position makes it one of the highest lightning-risk environments in the world. Changi Airport alone carries 46% more annual lightning exposure than the second-highest risk major airport globally. The question for Singapore-based infrastructure operators is not whether proactive protection is warranted — it is why it has not already been implemented.
| #1 | Singapore Changi Airport | 9,903 min/yr |
| #2 | Guangzhou Baiyun Int'l | 6,760 min/yr |
| #3 | Orlando International | 6,521 min/yr |
| #4 | Dallas Fort Worth Int'l | 3,860 min/yr |
| #5 | Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta | 2,994 min/yr |
Every engagement begins with a site assessment. We model your specific exposure and present a deployment proposal — at no obligation and in complete confidence.