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Garner laughs . “ Human behaviour is fallible . One person does things one way , the other person does things another way . You can ’ t get consistency if you ’ re trying to run a building or a manufacturing plant based on human behaviour .
“ What you can get consistency on , is through automating that system . So in my house , if I put PIR sensors in every room . Now , when my daughter leaves the room , that light automatically goes off . You ’ re less reliant on behaviour , and you ’ re more reliant on technology and automation .
“ If we move on to something like an industrial facility where machine learning is introduced , a variable speed drive running at 80 % compared to at 100 % can save a huge amount of energy in that simple change . AI can really help with that .”
Crucial to this approach ’ s success is making sure that organisations have access to the right data . “ If you ’ ve got the right data coming into it to say ‘ our capacity to produce is reduced , we don ’ t need to run the machine at 100 % anymore ,’ your consumption goes down significantly . You start to see optimisation throughout the whole process . And ultimately that will be fed by a data centre into the cloud , stored and managed for analytics to be able to compare and learn from it and do better the next time around .
I think that ’ s where you start to see this bigger picture of where the data centre plays into driving operational efficiency ,” Garner adds . “ Around 60 % of the reduction will be around energy efficiency , and 40 % will come from how we produce or generate energy differently . Once we ’ ve got that energy , we ’ ve still got to do better with it than what we ’ re doing today . And that ’ s
one of the interesting aspects for me where the data centre really comes into it .”
AVEVA acquisition providing a true end-to-end view In January Schneider Electric announced it had completed the acquisition of global industrial software leader AVEVA ,
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