Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 37 | Page 81

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology Using energy efficiency tools to cut consumption ///////////////////////////// Schneider Electric. Green tech Intelligent CIO caught up with Richard Francis, VP – End User and EcoStruxure Gulf and Pakistan, of Schneider Electric, to talk about the company’s innovative EcoStruxure architecture including its capacity for energy saving. www.intelligentcio.com What is Schneider Electric EcoStruxure architecture? It is, if we can summarise it, our eco-system for digitisation. What does it mean and what does it consists of? We can summarise that in four main pillars. It is a platform. It is the experience. It is a community and it is lifecycle tools. So when we say platform it’s a technology platform where you start from the infrastructure of the building or plant or the project that needs to be connected. And then it aggregates those and brings the integration of all that you can see on site to the edge control where you are able to control your installation to control your building or control your plant and at the same time collect data and bring it to a higher level. So you would be able to analyse and to put some data in the cloud if you need or on premises to do some analysis and INTELLIGENTCIO 81