SCHNEIDER Electric has announced the EcoStruxure active architecture for managing energy in industrial facilities.
According to the company, the solution provides a coordinated way of optimising energy efficiencies across the multiple domains of a business.
The architecture covers power management for facilities, plant and large sites operations, enabling efficient, safe and reliable electrical distribution.
It also caters for datacentres, processes and machines, in addition to building control and physical security.
Utilising IP and web services, the solution connects the various domains within an open and flexible ecosystem, allowing purpose specific applications to connect whenever needed, at the right level.
The company claims businesses can anticipate better results and improved operations due to the systematic energy visibility and real time control of energy usage afforded by the new architecture.