Schneider Electric has launched “EcoStruxure Rail” in India. Through this end-to-end digital solution, the company aims to build a collaborative digital environment for safe, efficient, reliable and sustainable metro rail operations in the country.
The solution also intends to significantly enhance smart management, provide electrical safety and improve energy efficiency by up to 25 per cent, enable efficiency planning services and safeguard system’s operations,
This is expected to increase overall operational efficiency by up to 20 per cent and reduce total cost of ownership by 15 per cent, a release from Schneider Electric said.
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Schneider Electric’s advanced IoT-enabled EcoStruxure™ Rail platform is best positioned to solve the critical challenges faced by the Indian metro-rail segment. It helps optimise energy consumption by using smart energy management solutions, integrating renewables, and braking energy recovery. Advanced building management solutions provider for the non-traction infrastructure.
Schneider Electric has collaborated with world-leading tech companies such as RIB, ETAP, and AVEVA to drive digital transformation in the metro-rail market. These companies use their robust, Vendor agnostic software portfolio to apply the “Single Version of Reality” paradigm over the entire cycle, resulting in a “Model Based Approach” in everything they do. The organization hopes to achieve this by providing all users with a consistent and collaborative dataflow across the entire lifecycle, from design to operation and maintenance.
The advanced IoT-enabled EcoStruxure platform from Schneider Electric has aided Metro Rail networks around the world in four areas: power delivery, environmental control, communication, and services.
It also increases the resilience of the system in case of cybersecurity attack by providing solutions to avoid and detect intrusions at all levels: control centre, telecom system and field devices.
It improves the smart management, electrical safety, and atmosphere of Metro stations, as well as the operation of their systems, with solutions for: traction power, signaling power, distribution power and construction management.
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