Schneider Electric Announces EcoStruxure for Integrated Energy Management

From Schneider Electric, the EcoStruxure solution architecture is an approach which seeks to unite the company's expertise across five areas: power, datacentres, process and machines, building control, and physical security - to enable intelligent energy management solutions for customers seeking to optimise energy efficiencies across multiple domains of their business. The company is rolling out EcoStruxure reference architectures as well as corresponding training throughout the course of 2010.

"Uncoordinated component-level attempts to solve energy management issues by different corporate functions without a comprehensive plan can actually inhibit a company's ability to meet efficiency goals," said Aaron Davis, chief marketing officer, Schneider Electric. "By providing our customers with clear and comprehensive reference architectures across key environments and applications, we intend to reduce inefficiencies and increase a company's ability to make invisible energy waste both visible and actionable."

Capacity constraints, efficiency losses due to poor system design, lack of standardization, low adoption of renewable energy and implementation conflicts between broad and local energy policies are some of the factors that contribute to the ongoing energy obstacles that companies face. With EcoStruxure, Schneider Electric says it is able to leverage its various competencies to deliver solutions to its customers at all levels of energy utilization.

EcoStruxure is based on a portfolio of purpose specific applications in the five domains of expertise that are essential to solve the energy equation, and is able to connect these five domains within an ecosystem of technology that relies on the use of IP and web services, allowing purpose specific applications to connect whenever needed, at the right level, says Schneider.