I saw the latest equipment at the showroom of Schneider Electric Osaka Building where the whole building is a demonstration

The energy management system (EMS), which manages and optimizes the energy use of factories and homes using ICT (Information and Communication Technology), attracts more attention since the Great East Japan Earthquake. With respect to such energy management, we lead the world with building management · mega solar etc.Schneider ElectricHowever, we have installed a showroom to display building management systems and server equipment all together, so we have observed them.

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Arrived at Schneider Electric Osaka Building, Kitahama, Chuo-ku, Osaka.


Entering inside ... ...


Seminar room for briefing for press was prepared.


The briefing will start soon.


Inside the seminar room the door to the showroom was open. As soon as I go inside, ...


Suddenly a huge black box appeared.


This is a data center UPS "Symmetra PX 250/500 kW". It is designed to be able to configure the UPS body, battery, power supply etc. in a case called a power frame of up to 4 units. Height 200 cm × width 180 cm.


The back side is clear like this. The depth is 107 cm.


Battery unit from the left. Supplies electric power to the UPS when power supply such as power failure is lost.


Inside is like this.


There are modular type batteries in the lower two stages, and you can respond to capacity increase of servers by freely adding power modules.


The second from the left is the unit that houses the UPS body.


The UPS is also modularized, and it supports hot swapping at 25 kW with one module. For example, when using 12 units of this with a 250 kW UPS configuration, all UPSs are running at 80% and even if two UPSs are broken at the same time, they can maintain the function as a 250 kW UPS. Of course, you can respond by adding modules to size up of the data center, and by optimizing the initial cost and running cost (electricity bill) by making it according to the scale.


The second from the right is an I / O frame + intelligence module, which manages the entire UPS system.


It is made "visible".


On the right end is an input / output maintenance bypass unit.


In the back of the huge UPS unit, there is even a huge black box ... rather than a room.


There is a passage like a locker room when you look inside from the glass door.


The ceiling of the aisle is translucent like this.


Key up and down.


A camera for security on the room. Security measures are perfect.


This is a cooling system that allows you to keep the server temperature low by discharging cold air from both directions by placing the server system on the right and left with a passageInfraStruXure".


Sucking air from the front of the server unit at the far right of the photo ... ...



The hot air sent in the locker room passage is sucked into the unit immediately beside.


this"InfraStruXure InRow RC"The water cooled cooling device took heat away from the air and the heat was discharged outside the building. Since it is cold air to remain, it is discharged into the server room and it is taken in again to the server rack. By placing it right next to the server, we have succeeded in drastically reducing power by minimizing the traveling path of high-temperature air.


A system that centrally manages the status of the server room was also exhibited.


You can manage one server at a time around the world. Engineers familiar with sophisticated systems can grasp server systems all over the world from a specific place and instruct the server rooms of each country as appropriate.


Schneider Electric also enters solar power generation systems.


This is a model of mega solar.


I see a container.


This is "PV Box" which consolidates collector boxes, inverters, transformers and switchboards necessary for mega solar in one container. It requires a lot of space and allows me to install traditional mega solar equipment that will take construction period and labor cost for construction in just a few hours.


Used in data centerPower Distribution Unit(PDU) product.


In other words, it is a high performance power strip for servers.


Power connector for the number of tons.


PDU is connected to the network, it is possible to measure and monitor power, voltage and current of each power cable. "AP 8841It is the world's most popular PDU.


Small UPS "Smart-UPS Series" is also displayed for a long time.


SMX3000RMJ2U


SMT 1000J


SMT 500J


BR1000 G-JP


BR 550 G-JP


Schneider Electric is doing the lighting of the building in an unexpected place.



The lighting device can remotely work using IT.


Visualization of even equipment replacement timing.



The flow of "visualization" extends to machine tools.


This demonstrates the status of industrial machines on display.


"It is also possible to grasp the status of industrial robots from a remote place with a tablet terminal".


After observing the showroom, I asked him to explain the circumstances of the establishment of Schneider Electric Osaka Building.

Schneider Electric's 2013 turnover is 24 billion euros (about 3.3 trillion yen), the ranking of the World Economic Forum's "the most sustainable companies in the world" ranks among the 4000 companies is the tenth place.


Boast top share in industrial touch panelsDigital CorporationAnd capital tie-up in 2002 and focusing on industrial business as well. In addition, Digital Corporation relocates its head office to Schneider Electric Osaka Building.


This time Schneider Electric Osaka Building opens as a showroom displaying Schneider Electric Co., Ltd.'s business products for digital at once. It will be used as a demonstration base of building business · solar business · IT business · industrial product. In other words, the whole building is a sample of service.


Schneider Electric Osaka Building, a demonstration building, introduced all its power conversion, power distribution, control and monitoring equipment. We are realizing energy conservation by analyzing electricity consumption by visualization of energy.


The Schneider Electric Osaka Building, which also functions as a disaster prevention center, is equipped with a building central monitoring and control system. You can manage all the building systems collectively.


I immediately went to see the building central monitoring and control system.


The control system is in a very small room of about 10 square meters ... ...



Always monitor with this monitor.




Electric power peaks can also be displayed clearly in graphs.


The image of the surveillance camera is managed by a small server. In an amazingly small room, I was able to grasp the whole building.