Schneider Electric Announces StruxureWare™ Software Platform To Help Companies Simplify And Optimize Energy Management. Drive Efficiency
New software platform enables simplified integration and increases visibility and control across company's EcoStruxure™ energy management architecture
Palatine, IL — Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, recently introduced its StruxureWare™ supervision and optimization software, an integrated software platform designed to simplify energy management and optimize process operation in buildings, data centers and industrial facilities. StruxureWare is the software component of the company's comprehensive EcoStruxure™ energy management architecture portfolio. From a single point of access, it provides intelligent monitoring, automation, planning and reporting on critical facility management systems from across the organization.
"Energy is invisible in many businesses today. StruxureWare helps organizations gain control of their energy costs and consumption by making it visible and providing context on its use – providing CEOs and facility managers enterprise-wide energy information at their fingertips to help make informed decisions on how to best reduce their energy usage and maximize cost savings," said Philippe Delorme, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Schneider Electric. "For the first time, companies now have a simple integration, consistent user experience and scalable platform across all areas of their organization."
StruxureWare is designed to simplify integration time, improve reliability, enhance visibility to energy information and optimize operational efficiency, providing a fully integrated system designed to best fit the needs of building, data center, and industrial customers. As the software platform of EcoStruxure, it connects five domains of business expertise – power, data centers, process and machines, building control, and physical security – within an open and flexible technology architecture, delivering up to 30 percent savings in capital and operational expenditures, including energy.
The first software suite, StruxureWare for Data Centers, was introduced in June 2011. StruxureWare for Data Centers is a management software suite designed to simplify the installation and deployment of power and cooling and provide visibility to all domains that effect the data center environment. It combines previously independent offerings for monitoring, automation, planning and implementation to provide a multifaceted, complete view of all functions of the data center, providing a simple, integrated experience for many users and groups who manage both the facility and IT infrastructure environments.
Other StruxureWare suite offerings will be introduced over the next 12 months – StruxureWare for Buildings, StruxureWare for Industry and StruxureWare for Grid. Each of these suites contains specific applications to help companies manage and monitor their sustainability initiatives, optimize their current operations and better manage their sites and processes.
About Schneider Electric
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centers/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 110,000 plus employees achieved sales of more than 20 billion euro in 2010, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations "Make the most of their energy."
SOURCE: Schneider Electric