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IIoT gets applied to safety

With Safety Advisor, Schneider Electric provides a cloud-based platform to aggregate real-time data, analytics and insights from multiple sites into a single user interface for the creation of an enterprise-wide risk profile.

Schneider Electric's Ecostruxure Process Safety Advisor is an IIoT-based, digital process safety platform and service.
Schneider Electric's Ecostruxure Process Safety Advisor is an IIoT-based, digital process safety platform and service.

Safety has historically been and still is for many, an entity unto itself. Safety systems often have their own dedicated controllers and networks, intentionally kept separate from other industrial systems to ensure operational and personal safety.

Because of this separateness that characterizes the bulk of industrial safety technologies, safety is not a term often heard within the context of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) discussions. But when you look at safety from a data perspective, it’s easy to see why it’s well-suited for IIoT.

That’s the direction from which Schneider Electric is approaching industrial safety with the release of its EcoStruxure Process Safety Advisor. The company describes Safety Advisor as “an IIoT-based digital process safety platform and service that enables customers to visualize and analyze real-time hazardous events and risks to their enterprise-wide assets, operations and business performance.”

Built on Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure SIF Manager application for tracking and validating safety instrumented function (SIF) performance over the life of a plant, Safety Advisor is designed to provide “a single view into the health and status of the user’s safety instrumented functions, which helps to identify potential risks and their impact on operations performance,” according to Schneider Electric.

Safety Advisor begins its work by collecting, digitizing, and analyzing local data from existing safety and process control systems. With this information, Safety Advisor can provide contextual insight into past, present, and future operating risks based on real-time operating conditions. Next, Safety Advisor aggregates data from every site into EcoStruxure’s secure cloud platform to create a dynamic view into enterprise-wide operating risks.

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