Systems and methods for providing real-time predictions of arc flash incident energy, arc flash protection boundary, and required personal protective equipment (ppe) levels to comply with workplace safety standards

A system for making real-time predictions about an arc flash event on an electrical system, comprising:

• a data acquisition component communicatively connected to a sensor configured to acquire real-time data output from the electrical system;
• an analytics server communicatively connected to the data acquisition component, comprising,
• a virtual system modeling engine configured to generate predicted data output for the electrical system utilizing a virtual system model of the electrical system,
• an analytics engine configured to monitor the real-time data output and the predicted data output of the electrical system, the analytics engine further configured to initiate a calibration and synchronization operation to update the virtual system model when a difference between the real-time data output and the predicted data output exceeds a threshold, and
• an arc flash simulation engine configured to utilize the virtual system model to forecast an aspect of the arc flash event;
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• a client terminal communicatively connected to the analytics server and configured to communicate the forecasted aspect.