Eaton Updates Power Xpert Architecture

Eaton Corporation (News - Alert), a diversified industrial manufacturer today announced updates to its award-winning Power Xpert Architecture with an aim to enable enterprises to proactively manage their power systems and achieve a competitive advantage.

 

Eaton’s Power Xpert Architecture is an Ethernet-based management system that enables organizations to integrate multi-vendor power and facilities infrastructure equipment into a seamlessly unified system. The solution allows users to have complete visibility and access to real-time, synchronized power quality information at both the system and equipment levels. The architecture comes with several components such as software, gateways, meters, switches and network time servers.

 

“In most organizations, many elements of the critical facilities infrastructure are not monitored, and those that are monitored may not talk to each other,” said Jim Thompson, product line manager at the software and meters division of Eaton.

 

Thompson added, “Power Xpert makes it possible to see the big picture, to correlate events across the power system and to drill into detail for quick diagnosis and action. Version 1.2 updates to the architecture demonstrate our commitment to help customers proactively manage their power systems.”

 

The latest updates include; Updation of the Power Xpert Gateway (News - Alert) 600 (PXG 600) allows access to critical data for up to 96 Eaton and third-party electrical devices using a standard Web browser and one IP address. On-board Web pages allow for quick network setting and device configuration. Data logging, event notification and waveform file downloads also allow for robust power system analysis. The Power Xpert Gateway 400 has also been updated and now includes a new, more intuitive user interface. 

 

The Power Xpert Software Server Core Class comes with improved Graphical design and usability, advanced alarm features, software support for upgrading Power Xpert Meters and improvements in screen customization.

 

The Power Xpert Meters include enhanced energy and demand monitoring that enable users to “go green” with built-in trend graphing as well as weekly and monthly comparisons. Other than this, the energy logs are automatically saved every month on the meter’s FTP-server.

 

The Power Xpert Gateway Series 2000 Card (PXGX 2000) provides Web-enabled, real-time monitoring of Powerware uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) through standard onboard Web pages, Power Xpert Software or third-party software. The card offers a central point to connect UPSs to an Ethernet network.