| Providing real-time information and insights about IoT products
| Increased visibility and efficiency for connected products

Schneider Electric announced on the 4th that it has announced seven new EcoStruxure Advisors at the 'Hannover Messe 2019' held in Hannover, Germany from the 1st to the 5th (local time).
EcoStruxure Advisor is the top layer of Schneider Electric's integrated architecture platform, EcoStruxure, providing users with visibility into all connected products in their ecosystem and analytics to improve efficiency.

The rapid digitalization of smart factories, smart buildings, data centers, and energy grids unlocks the potential for companies to transform their data into business opportunities.

According to Gartner, $20 billion worth of IoT connected devices will be installed worldwide by 2020, and the IIoT is projected to account for $14 trillion of the global economy by 2030.
Schneider Electric has released seven new applications: EcoStruxure Power Advisor, which provides in-depth insights into power equipment data quality and network health; EcoStruxure IT Advisor, which provides a comprehensive view of data center assets and performance; EcoStruxure Workplace Advisor, which improves building comfort and efficiency; and EcoStruxure Process Safety Advisor, which enables comprehensive safety management of digital processes.

▲EcoStruxure Equipment Efficiency Advisor, which creates business insights for manufacturing environments ▲EcoStruxure Pumping Performance Advisor, which improves water and wastewater pump performance ▲EcoStruxure Clean-In-Place Advisor, which provides cleanliness management measures for food and beverage companies.


Power Advisor Provides Power Data Quality and Network Insights
EcoStruxure Power Advisor combines expert advice with advanced algorithms to identify problems in power management systems and pinpoint power quality issues in large-scale distribution systems. Power Advisor allows users to track and analyze equipment health, manage power capacity, gain flexibility, and receive advanced alerts remotely.

In particular, the analytics function for establishing a reliable data base provides managers with real-time data quality information through insights and recommendations, and enables effective identification and management of power grid issues through grid status system summaries and trend analysis.

As of November 2018, major software updates have been implemented, and the system is installed in approximately 650 locations, connecting approximately 130,000 Assets Under Management (AUM).


IT advisors provide asset and performance status to data center managers.
EcoStruxure IT Advisor is a highly secure planning and modeling software that gives data center professionals instant visibility into their data center operations. It supports data center capacity optimization, change planning, business impact analysis, workflow automation, and energy billing, reducing operating expenses (OpEx) and improving return on investment (ROI).

Users can understand the physical location of assets through a floor view of areas, cages, racks, and IT assets. Manage physical infrastructure to meet redundancy, backup time, and availability requirements to achieve capacity optimization. Real-time analysis of data center infrastructure, which highlights redundancy vulnerabilities through external impact simulations, improves change management performance. IT Advisor is cloud-based, allowing you to access your data anytime, anywhere, keeping your cybersecurity up to date and providing automatic software updates and backups.


Workplace Advisor: Improving Building Comfort and Efficiency
EcoStruxure Workplace Advisor is designed for large office buildings, enabling flexible digital services that empower building managers to create smart workspaces. Data from IoT-connected devices and systems is analyzed through an intuitive dashboard, providing actionable insights. It also integrates with mobile apps for efficient and convenient connectivity.

Quickly identify underutilized offices, conference rooms, and amenities, maximizing space efficiency with effective reallocation methods based on real-world data, and supporting office hoteling by allowing employees to check available space in real time.

By actively monitoring temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, noise, lighting, and volatile organic compound (VOC) levels, occupant quality of life and productivity are improved. Building owners and managers can reduce operating costs through optimized facility management and make informed decisions based on real-time occupancy and environmental data and analytics. It also supports efficient execution of cleaning, security, and other facility management services based on actual space usage trends, and as a SaaS solution, more services will be continuously added.


Process Safety Advisor provides real-time enterprise-wide risk profiles.
EcoStruxure Process Safety Advisor enables customers to create accurate, real-time enterprise-wide risk profiles. It is a digital process safety platform and service that aggregates real-time data, analytics, and insights from multiple sites and locations into a single user interface.

Capture conditions requiring corrective action with easy-to-understand performance dashboards and leading indicators of safety status, while documenting the overall process with built-in SIF audit trails that support safety compliance.

Safely managing assets and activities and controlling business risks in real time is challenging for customers. Safety Advisor helps identify risk factors within minutes and take swift and decisive action to achieve better business performance.


Equipment Efficiency Advisor: Generating Business Insights from Plant Data
EcoStruxure Equipment Efficiency Advisor helps you profile and measure the subtle, persistent, and often unnoticed losses in your manufacturing environment. A solution designed for operators, production managers, and maintenance personnel to meet their individual needs, collecting, measuring, analyzing, and reporting operational performance, availability, quality, and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), while also performing root cause analysis.

Equipment Efficiency Advisor includes lean manufacturing tools for performance management and real-time KPIs for machines and production lines, accessible through a simple, intuitive graphical interface. This allows manufacturers to gain business insights from plant operation data and improve real-time OEE performance. Users can see immediate OEE improvements of 5-10% within 3-4 weeks, resulting in a payback period of just nine months.


Pumping Performance Advisor: Improves the life and efficiency of your pump control box.
EcoStruxure Pumping Performance Advisor improves the performance, efficiency, and sustainability of control boxes for water and wastewater pumps. Delivered through consulting and digital service software, it provides maintenance cost assessments and a service center that translates actionable insights into specific recommendations through a user dashboard.

The service center is accessible through the Schneider Electric digital service platform. It also instantly improves profitability by reducing operating costs by up to 15%, improving asset performance, and optimizing energy efficiency through the detection of inefficiencies, prediction of failures, and provision of recommendations based on operational practices.


Clean-in-Place Advisors Eliminate Losses for Food Companies
Clean-In-Place (CIP) operations are becoming increasingly important as food companies must comply with stringent regulatory standards while simultaneously responding quickly to changing consumer demands.

Production managers need to execute CIP operations quickly and efficiently, freeing up more time for production rather than cleaning. EcoStruxure Clean-In-Place Advisor includes a walkthrough audit feature that verifies compliance with energy, automation, and process best practices.

The CIP monitoring tool provides tracking and diagnostics, product loss monitoring, an energy monitoring dashboard, and real-time reporting capabilities. These features enable users to fundamentally eliminate loss factors, reduce unnecessary resource consumption, and improve cleaning effectiveness and time taken.