Schneider Electric Announces New Community Established as Part of EcoStruxure™ Next Generation Architecture Launch

Schneider
Electric Announces New Community Established as Part of EcoStruxure™ Next
Generation Architecture Launch

·  Open and interoperable
system architecture and IoT platform delivering enhanced value around safety,
reliability, efficiency, sustainability and connectivity for Building, Grid,
Industry, Data Center customers

·  Leveraging
advancements in IoT, mobility, sensing, cloud, analytics, and cybersecurity
technologies to deliver Innovation At Every Level from Connected Products to
Edge Control to Applications, Analytics and Services

·  Developed with
Microsoft, Intel and others and open to an ecosystem of developers, data
scientists, hardware and service partners who can create or co-create solutions
and applications

Singapore, March 29,
2017 – Schneider Electric, the global
specialist in energy management and automation, today announced the launch of
its next generation EcoStruxure™ architecture and platform to deliver
IoT-enabled solutions at scale for building, grid, industry and data center
customers. The enhanced architecture and platform is open, scalable and
interoperable, connecting the three core layers of Schneider Electric’s
technology stack, from connected products, to edge control, to applications,
analytics and services. This next generation EcoStruxure delivers enhanced
value around safety, reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and connectivity
of IoT-enabled operations.

As part of this
launch, the company also announced today that is establishing a new community
with technology and consortium leaders to maximize the benefits its customers
receive of an IoT-enabled operation.

Innovation at Every
Level: Technology and Consortium Collaboration

Flagship technology
companies enabling the next generation of EcoStruxure include:

·  Microsoft: Schneider
Electric leverages the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to deliver its digital
services, apps and analytics. Azure is the cloud backbone for EcoStruxure,
easing technology development on the platform. “Schneider Electric depends on
Microsoft Azure IoT technology to rapidly scale public, private and hybrid
cloud solutions,” said Sam George, Director, Microsoft Azure IoT at Microsoft
Corp. “We’re committed to working together to deliver new digital services that
leverage their vast domain expertise in targeted end markets.” One such digital
service, Conext 2 Advisor, is a secure monitoring and control solution for
managing and optimizing the performance of solar power plants, and is delivered
as an Azure cloud-based service, accessible on computers or mobile devices.

·  Intel: Schneider
Electric leverages Intel’s smart Field Programmable Gateway Arrays (FPGA)
devices to power its sensors and devices, networks and the cloud. Intel’s FPGAs
enhance the performance, power and flexibility of the EcoStruxure architecture
to enable smarter operations.

New partnerships are
also continually emerging with specialized technology providers like Zuora and
global industry leaders like the company’s recently announced partnership with Panasonic, both of which
further enable the delivery of new technology, new services, new business
models, and more service-oriented value for customers.

Schneider Electric
also serves on the board of the Industrial Internet Consortium and Thread
Group, where it is working with other leading organizations to accelerate the
growth and development of IoT solution architectures and standards for the
industrial and home automation industries.

Innovation at Every
Level: Ecosystem of Developers

The company is also
further establishing its innovation community for each of its end markets. Each
community includes open access for an ecosystem of developers and data
scientists, as well as hardware and service partners to create or co-create
solutions and applications for EcoStruxure.

These communities
include the portfolio of companies involved in the company’s Silicon Valley
Innovation Program, including Planet Ecosystem, Digital Lumens and OhmConnect
that have already begun to integrate their IoT solutions into the EcoStruxure
architecture and platform.

For more information
on the company’s EcoStruxure architecture, please see the accompanying press
release and visit http://www.schneider-electric.com/b2b/en/campaign/innovation/platform.jsp.