Electricity + Control March 2018

COVER ARTICLE

Schneider Electric PowerTag ® Simplest and Most Accessible Way to Monitor and Secure All Your Electrical Assets

FEATURES: • Drives,motors+ switchgear • Temperaturemeasurement • Industry 4.0+ Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) • Plantmaintenance, test+measurement • Hazardous areas+ safety • Energymanagement+ environmental engineering

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T he smallest wireless energy sensor provides a simple and cost-effective solution to the very complex challenge of adding wireless connectivity to a miniature circuit breaker, and enabling real-time energy measurement and asset management at a more granular level. PowerTag ® is built to easily connect to a miniature circuit breaker, in order to add connectivity, and to provide building owners and facility managers with precise, powerful, and real-time data to increase the health of a facility’s strategic assets. Designed for any type of building, the energy sensor easily monitors and measures, currents, voltages, power, power factor and energy. This first of its kind connection enables greater availability of electrical assets by providing the ability to better manage critical loads - leading to higher reliability and efficiency of the electrical installation. Data is sent

wirelessly to a concentrator to display the data via inbuilt webpages or provide data for larger energy management systems or BMS. Data can also be leveraged to create customised e-mail alarms to assist facility managers with remote monitoring of their assets. PowerTag ® provides the innovation to make asset and energy management simpler. The majority of circuit breakers can now be tagged bringing electrical distribution connectivity to a new era. PowerTag ® can be easily fitted without the need for complex wiring or additional space requirements, in reality it’s a five-minute installation to add a PowerTag ® and you’re on and connected. The compact, space-saving auxiliary fits easily in new and existing distribution board. PowerTag ® is natively integrated into Schneider Electric’s Acti 9 Communication System to provide customers an all- in-one monitoring and control solution. As a connected product PowerTag ® is a key part of EcoStruxure Power – Schneider’s IoT enabled, open and interoperable architecture. And a small but impressive solution your customers will appreciate. PowerTag ® is available directly through Schneider Electric or Schneider Electric authorised distributors.

For more information about PowerTag, including technical specifications visit: https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/ product-range/63626-powertag

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