The synergy of SCADA

with power monitoring

StruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert
Monitoring and control software for electrical
distribution networks

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 Uncompromising
supervision for your
critical energy assets

You need economical PowerSCADA Expert The best of SCADA and energy
power system and software offers management come together
critical process outstanding reliability, in an integrated system
management to customizability, and that helps you respond to
ensure ongoing ease-of-use power challenges
reliability

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StruxureWare
PowerScada Expert
Power monitoring and SCADA converge
for enhanced performance
PowerSCADA 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.
Oil & Gas Energy and
Infrastructure
Reduce
installation
time by up
to 30%
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.
•M  odularity and redundancy ensures high
availability and fast response times.
•S  calability that evolves with your site to protect
your investment.
•S  ecurity by design and through Microsoft® Active
Directory to match your company policies.
• Unique productivity tools speed deployment
and lower costs.
Data Centres Industry
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Bulletproof performance
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.

Robust architecture and

comprehensive redundancy
PowerSCADA 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.

Alarm Server Trend Server

Ethernet
Ethernet

Display clients

Server I/O Standby I/O

primario server

Fully customized Security is integrated

interface according into all interface
to your operator needs elements

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Real-time management
Designed 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.

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.

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.

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StruxureWare PowerSCADA Expert
Electrical network
Industry needs
protection and control • Ensure safe operations
• Maintain and improve production
PowerSCADA Expert integrates data from devices • Reduce and report on
across your electrical network, so you have production costs
accurate system-wide decision-making information.
Improve product quality, optimize asset usage, •D  ynamic electrical network view
and automate previously manual tasks in order to improve production, reduce
costs, boost safety
to improve personnel safety and productivity.
• Detailed electrical information
Functionality like protection, metering,
across the multi-vendor network
control, and condition monitoring lets you operate
your distribution network securely, reliably,
and cost-effectively.

Energy availability
and reliability
PowerSCADA 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.

Large data centres needs

• Outstanding data center uptime
• Increased information from
less resources
• KPI reporting and energy
costs management

• Report KPIs, energy costs, and

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

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applications and benefits

Oil and gas needs

• Maintain secure
upstream processing
• Ensure safety and
improve production

• Highly reliable monitoring and control

tailored to unique O&G electrical
Utility needs distribution network needs
• Maintain network stability
and integrity
• Trigger, monitor, and report
on recovery efforts

• Real-time visualization of the

network and substations
• Disturbance waveform views for
analysis and control for remediation

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