EcoStruxure™ Power SCADA Operation 2020

As a key element of EcoStruxure Power, Power SCADA Operation is engineered to help facilities like data centers, hospitals, industrials, airports and electro-intensive operations maximize uptime. With rich data integration from connected devices, PSO’s unique capabilities provide real-time situational awareness, and offer a high performance, cyber-resilient solution for your specialized power networks.

 

Benefits

 

Purpose-built edge platform that adapts to your complex electrical networks: ULLISTRONGNow 35% faster to deploy!/STRONG LIMore open protocols with OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), bridging IT and production LIHigh availability mobile notifications LISeamless integration with Schneider PLCs (including the M580) to monitor and control LICompliance to IEC-62443 international cyber-security standards/LI/UL

 

Applications

 

Help protect people and assets

Monitor breaker protection settings and ensure proper breaker operation and fault isolation to avoid safety hazards

Operate breakers remotely to minimize arc-flash risk

Detect abnormal conditions, such as rising busbar temperatures, that represent a risk to safety and operations

In hospital operating rooms, protect patient safety during operations by detecting circuit insulation faults

 

Maximize business continuity

 

Quickly understand the real-time state of your power system

Use real-time alarm notifications, filtering, sorting, and categorization to respond quickly to events

Perform root cause analysis by tracing sequence of events, analyzing waveforms, then quickly and safely re-establish normal operation

Perform fast, automatic fault isolation and power restoration

Monitor protection settings to ensure proper isolation of faults to avoid system wide outages

Analyze the aging of breaker contacts to avoid failures and enable proactive maintenance

Track system capacity to avoid overloads and make sure backup power systems are able to handle loads in case of an outage

 

Maximize operational efficiency

 

Set energy reduction targets and adjust operations for continuous efficiency improvements

Track how much energy and other utilities (WAGES) are generated, distributed, and consumed

Avoid power factor and peak demand penalties

Use shadow billing to identify errors in utility bills

Create accountability by allocating costs to departments or processes

Reveal unused system capacity to avoid upgrading or overbuilding

Showcase energy performance to a broad group of stakeholders via energy kiosk displays

 

Simplify reporting, align with standards

 

Comply with energy efficiency and green building standards (e.g. ISO50001/2, SEP, LEED, NABERS)

Verify utility/grid service and internal compliance to power quality standards (e.g. EN50160, IEEE519, ITIC)

Ensure regulatory compliance with backup power system testing (e.g. NFPA110 and others)

Comply with common IT practices (password management, whitelisting, two-factor authentication). Align with cybersecurity global standards such as IEC 62443. Use an industrial-grade firewall to monitor traffic between IT, OT, and Internet network zones.