ABB’s plug-and-play digital solution makes data-driven power management strategies simpler and more effective
ABB is launching the industry’s first turnkey digital low-voltage power distribution system. The fully integrated solution, based on the ABB AbilityTM cloud platform, brings together ABB’s smart power technologies in a compact, competitive installation that makes energy management, grid management and asset management simpler and more effective.
Giuseppe Scali, global product manager for ABB’s Breakers and Enclosures business, said: “This is yet another technological first for ABB. This complete digital solution for low-voltage power distribution provides the step-change in energy management that industry needs: everything is integrated and connected with cloud-based algorithms providing powerful data-driven functions that will help customers cut power costs, increase uptime and improve their return on investment.”
ABB’s digital low-voltage power distribution solution makes energy management easier to integrate, more effective and accurate. Advanced sensors embedded in the solution’s circuit breakers are accurate, two times better than standard breakers and comparable with traditional multimeters and network analyzers, ensuring that every energy-saving opportunity is identified.
With more precise sensing, higher quality data is available to the algorithms that power the Electrical Distribution Control System, part of the ABB AbilityTM cloud platform. Updates and alerts sent direct to smartphones and PCs help users to identify demand peaks and lower power costs. With load management hard-wired into the solution, typical savings can be up to 20 percent.
For facilities with renewable generation on-site, ABB’s digital low-voltage power distribution solution also provides a smart way of maximizing return on investment and uptime. An embedded automatic transfer switch function equips the system to manage different power sources and loads, with adaptive protection that recognizes network changes, connecting and disconnecting swiftly and intelligently.
ABB’s digital low-voltage power distribution solution also makes asset management smart, improving uptime and streamlining servicing costs. Bluetooth and Ethernet connectivity enable cloud-based predictive maintenance algorithms to monitor device performance and key environmental parameters in order to determine servicing intervals. Customers can drop routine annual maintenance, instead receiving regular status updates and intelligent alerts when servicing becomes necessary.
For designers, panel builders, and end-users, on-line configurator combined with the simplified product architecture delivers significant time, space and material savings. Sensing, monitoring and connectivity are efficiently integrated in the hardware – with ABB’s Emax 2 smart air circuit breaker and the new unveiled Tmax XT molded case circuit breaker – and packaged in ABB’s compact, modular System Pro E Power cabinet enclosure. A common, intuitive interface makes installation and operation quick and simple.
The level of functionality for the solution is completely scalable. ABB’s online Marketplace offers more than 50 software functionalities making it easy to optimize, and as upgrades in field are possible at any time without additional hardware, the digital solution can evolve as customer requirements change.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: bringing electricity from any power plant to any plug and automating industries from natural resources to finished products. As title partner of Formula E, the fully electric international FIA motorsport class, ABB is pushing the boundaries of e-mobility to contribute to a sustainable future. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 135,000 employees. www.abb.com
