Schneider Electric partners with Microsoft to enable open IoT application development
施耐德電氣與微軟合作開展開放式物聯網應用開發

Schneider Electric, a specialist in energy management and automation, announced an advancement in its collaboration with Microsoft Corp.. Customers can now gain access to multiple cloud-based applications from Schneider’s EcoStruxure architecture that utilize the full capabilities of the Azure cloud plaform, as well as capabilities like mixed reality, to bring new levels of decision making capabilities, productivity and efficiency.

能源管理與自動化專家施耐德電氣宣布與微軟公司進行合作。客戶現在可以從使用了Azure云平臺全部功能以及諸如混合現實功能的施耐德EcoStruxure架構獲得多個基于云的應用程序，使決策能力、生產力和效率進入新的層次。

The two will accelerate the delivery of cloud-based, IoT solutions for all of Schneider Electric’s end user segments, marrying Microsoft’s experience in the cloud with Schneider Electric’s domain expertise in power management, plants, machines, buildings, data centers and grids to empower companies in a wide variety of markets to use IoT as a competitive differentiator. This includes several cloud-based applications available today driving plant, building, people and asset optimization.

兩者將加速為施耐德電氣所有的終端用戶行業提供基于云的IoT解決方案，將微軟在云領域的經驗與施耐德電氣在電力管理、工廠、機器、建筑、數據中心和電網等領域的專業知識結合起來，使得一眾市場參與企業可以利用物聯網加強競爭優勢。目前推出的數個基于云的應用程序，主要用于驅動工廠、建筑、人員和資產優化。

The combination of Schneider Electric industrial software and Azure is already enabling customers, like Seminole Country Florida, to mobilize big data solutions for use in the field. Seminole County has improved its ability to ensure safe drinking water for its more than 440,000 residents by allowing plant managers and operators to view plant data on mobile, handheld and tablet devices and receive critical operational data in minutes.

施耐德電氣工業軟件和Azure的結合已經讓佛羅里達塞米諾爾縣這樣的客戶，能夠在現場移動應用大數據方案。通過允許工廠經理和操作員在移動手持和平板設備上查看工廠數據，并在幾分鐘內收到關鍵的操作數據，塞米諾爾縣提高了其保護44萬多居民安全飲水的能力。

The open and interoperable design of the EcoStruxure architecture and the computing power of Azure will arm industrial companies specifically with advanced analytics, maintenance and training solutions and empower operations and maintenance personnel with new mixed reality capabilities that provide an enhanced user experience with digital hologram context and prescriptive actions.

EcoStruxure架構的開放性和互操作性設計以及Azure的計算能力將為工業企業提供先進的分析、維護和培訓解決方案，并為運營和維護人員提供新的混合現實功能，利用數字全息圖場景和規范性操作，提供更好的用戶體驗。

Schneider Electric will continue to build HoloLens technology into its process design and simulation and enterprise asset management solutions to bring mixed reality capabilities to its industrial maintenance, asset performance and training offerings. Provided as part of the company’s EcoStruxure for Industry solution, this capability is designed to improve personnel safety and asset performance. It also transforms training outcomes by creating an immersive experience that exposes personnel to interactive and simulated situations and environments to help make operational decisions and investigate processes prior to interacting in the real-world.

施耐德電氣將繼續把HoloLens技術加入其流程設計和仿真以及企業資產管理解決方案中，將混合現實能力帶到其工業維護、資產績效和培訓產品。作為公司面向工業領域的EcoStruxure（EcoStruxure for Industry）解決方案的一部分，該功能旨在提高人員安全和資產績效。它還通過創建沉浸式體驗，將人員暴露于交互式和模擬場景和環境中，以便在現實世界進行交互之前進行操作決策和調查過程，從而改變培訓結果。

The relationship builds on Schneider Electric and Microsoft’s work in driving advanced analytic solutions and is part of Schneider Electric’s strategy to build an ecosystem of industry-leading partners to advance and co-develop its EcoStruxure architecture solutions.

這項合作基于施耐德電氣和微軟在推動先進分析解決方案方面的努力，是施耐德電氣構建行業領先合作伙伴生態系統戰略的一部分，旨在推動并共同開發其EcoStruxure架構解決方案。