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The synergy of SCADA with power monitoringStruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert Monitoring and control software for electrical distribution networks

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Uncompromising supervision for your critical energy assets

You need economical power system and critical process management to ensure ongoing reliability

PowerSCADA Expert software offers outstanding reliability, customizability, and ease-of-use

The best of SCADA and energy management come together in an integrated system that helps you respond to power challenges

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StruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert

Power monitoring and SCADA converge for enhanced performancePowerSCADA Expert is an electrical distribution network monitoring and control software that provides vital tools to enhance power system reliability and operational efficiency. Its powerful architecture combines our proven expertise in electrical distribution with the speed and control of high-performance SCADA to reduce outages while increasing power system efficiency.

Designed to satisfy your unique needs• Optimized functionality gives you fast, accurate,

and actionable information.• Dynamic user interface graphically highlights

issues or actions and their impacts.• Visualized trends and time-stamped alarms help

mitigate or prevent downtime.• Customizable interface to fit your specific

workflow and operations.• Essential protocols (Modbus, IEC 61850, DNP 3,

SNMP, and optional IEC 104) provide superior network integration and interoperability with other systems.

Reduce installation time by up to 30%

Energy and Infrastructure

Oil & Gas Data Centres Industry

An excellent fit for virtually every industry and application, PowerSCADA Expert delivers exceptional scalability so that it can grow to match multiple, changing business requirements while driving down the total cost of ownership. Components interact seamlessly, no matter the supplier, and Schneider Electric’s extensive product portfolio enhances overall capability.

• Modularity and redundancy ensures high availability and fast response times.

• Scalability that evolves with your site to protect your investment.

• Security by design and through Microsoft® Active Directory to match your company policies.

• Unique productivity tools speed deployment and lower costs.

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Bulletproof performance

Robust architecture and comprehensive redundancyPowerSCADA Expert offers secure, operator-dedicated, multi-user data and control access through a local server interface and full control client, also through web clients. It provides full redundancy for communications, network servers, alarming, trending, and data synchronization. Its dynamic, customized user interface can be fully optimized to your operational workflow so you can make faster, smarter decisions with confidence.

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PowerSCADA Expert provides all the power system visibility and control to improve energy efficiency, process productivity, and power system reliability. Powerful features enable more effective root cause analysis, lower incident response times, and improve safety. Wide ranging protocol interactivity ensures all components interact seamlessly.

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Real-time managementDesigned to boost productivity, PowerSCADA Expert delivers complete control and monitoring capabilities, and its intuitive commands increase operator efficiency:• Automatic or user control of electrical distribution equipment within the power network.• View any screen and manage any variable controlled through the SCADA system.• Monitor real-time power and energy data, alarms, events, equipment status (on/off, temperature),

and control interface.• Aggregate multiple device data into a single view for complete information from all system points.• Customize graphics for alarms, status indicators, control triggers, and facility views.

Analysis• View waveforms and record, save, or export

trends to archives.• Trend and analyse an virtually all

measured parameters to identify potential disturbance patterns.

• Display millisecond-accurate alarms and trends for sequence of events and root cause analysis.

• Amalgamate trend and alarm data for sophisticated disturbance views and analysis.

• User-defined colour coding and overlays highlight data series, time ranges, thresholds, and limits.

Electrical distribution• Single line diagrams with real-time monitoring

and control of devices, objects, and distribution points. Point-and-click navigation reveals deeper layers of detail.

• Animated, interactive industry-standard symbols and templates blend control and display functions.

• Dynamic colouring is easily configured using the default set or user-defined colours.

• True colour, easy-to-use human machine interface provides operators with intuitive, consistent screens.

Alarms and events• Easily discriminate between alarm criticality levels.• Capture and log every single alarm or event.• Organize, filter, and print by any alarm property. • Change symbol colour or flash an icon on a page.• View the most recent alarms from every page and

see detailed but easy-to-understand formats.• Event log for all PC-based and on-board field

events and alarms.• Annunciation based on alarm type.

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StruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert applications and benefitsElectrical network protection and controlPowerSCADA Expert integrates data from devices across your electrical network, so you have accurate system-wide decision-making information. Improve product quality, optimize asset usage, and automate previously manual tasks in order to improve personnel safety and productivity. Functionality like protection, metering, control, and condition monitoring lets you operate your distribution network securely, reliably, and cost-effectively.

Energy availability and reliabilityPowerSCADA Expert helps you maximize power network availability. Monitor key operations in real time and take immediate corrective actions when events occur.

Use the system to increase equipment life and uptime while reducing time spent troubleshooting system incidents.

• Outstanding data center uptime• Increased information from

less resources• KPI reporting and energy

costs management

Large data centres needs

• Report KPIs, energy costs, and filtered alarming

• Fast issue resolution and reporting to improve the electrical network quality and energy use

• Ensure safe operations• Maintain and improve production• Reduce and report on

production costs

Industry needs

• Dynamic electrical network view to improve production, reduce costs, boost safety

• Detailed electrical information across the multi-vendor network

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StruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert applications and benefits

• Maintain network stability and integrity

• Trigger, monitor, and report on recovery efforts

Utility needs

• Real-time visualization of the network and substations

• Disturbance waveform views for analysis and control for remediation

• Maintain secure upstream processing

• Ensure safety and improve production

Oil and gas needs

• Highly reliable monitoring and control tailored to unique O&G electrical distribution network needs

Make the most of your energySM

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