Schneider Electric announced the launch of EcoStruxure Energy Hub, a scalable self-service IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that helps to simplify the management of digitalized building energy systems.
EcoStruxure Energy Hub is available for download in the App Store in the U.S. beginning April 2022 and through Schneider Electric, the EcoXpert Partner Channel, Distributors or Electrical Contractors.
With EcoStruxure Energy Hub, commercial, industrial, and institutional building owners and operators can more easily comply with emerging energy codes and standards, more effectively manage essential energy systems, and better ensure they’re on track to meet larger sustainability goals. The solution is providing businesses with the ability to more quickly connect their devices and begin collecting data and visualizing actionable insights about their energy use from a more user-friendly smartphone app.
Through its compliance with energy codes, EcoStruxure Energy Hub allows service providers to help overcome the ever-changing complexities of meeting local energy codes to help satisfy customer requirements. In addition, it provides the capability to remotely service customers, maintaining ongoing relationships and further maximizing service value-add. EcoStruxure Energy Hub is designed to be user friendly, from purchasing through installation, deployment, configuration, and use.
EcoStruxure Energy Hub is Designed to be User-Friendly, Smart, and IT-Friendly
EcoStruxure Energy Hub is designed to be user-friendly and more quickly implement, operate, and connect devices for collecting and visualizing data. Its graphical configuration makes it easier to customize to the environment, while dashboards and reports are automatically populated to help speed up time-to-value. It is built on an energy platform designed by energy management specialists that takes additional effort out of configuration by understanding and analyzing energy and power data to produce energy savings of up to 30 percent, driven by a better awareness of energy spend.
As a web-based application, there is no software to install or maintain, which helps to eliminate shutdowns for software upgrades and maintenance as new features are released continuously and updated automatically. EcoStruxure Energy Hub is a native IoT solution that is designed to be more IT-friendly and with end-to-end cybersecurity.
With the EcoStruxure Panel Server (available in Q3 2022) and Site Server, the next generation IoT gateways designed to be cyber-resilient for intelligent energy networks, businesses can connect their energy and power infrastructure, collect data, and more securely and quickly push data to the cloud.
Compliant with the requirements of cyber-security standard, ISA/IEC 62443, data is more securely transmitted to the EcoStruxure Energy Hub’s user-friendly designed web and smartphone app to help visualize actionable insights.
Energy Code Compliance and Energy Usage Analysis
EcoStruxure Energy Hub provides energy analysis and benchmarking features to help identify the factors contributing to energy usage, analyzing energy usage patterns, and implementing energy conservation measures. The software makes it easier to track energy consumption with the following features:
- Collecting and storing energy data for 36 months or more.
- Categorizing energy usage by load types, such as HVAC, Lighting and Plug Loads, to identify where to focus energy conservation initiatives.
- Aggregating energy usage data by site, building, floor, area, or zones.
- Comparing and ranking top contributors to energy usage across multiple sites, buildings, floors, areas, zones, equipment, or devices.
- Analyzing factors contributing to energy usage, usage patterns and isolate energy waste.
- Monitoring and reporting on energy usage in accordance with ASHRAE 90.1, IECC, LEED, California Title 24.
Electrical Distribution Monitoring and Alarming
As business operations depend on reliable power, EcoStruxure Energy Hub provides alerts to disturbances in the electrical system and more easily monitors the real-time status of electrical equipment. By collecting information from the electrical equipment, it can send notification alerts by email or through the mobile app.
The EcoStruxure Energy Hub mobile app enables easier viewing of alarm notifications, reviews details of the alarm, and remotely acknowledges alarms with an audit trail. Alarm details are shared between the web and mobile apps so all users with permission have access to the same information.
Additionally, real-time device status can be viewed for each asset, including voltage, current, demand and energy measurements. Historical trends can also be viewed for the selected time range.
EcoStruxure Energy Hub is currently available via the App Store or by contacting a Schneider Electric EcoXpert.