The meter offers five key innovations:
• Third-party-certified Class 0.1S accuracy This offers twice the precision of existing energy standards, and will ensure that the data used for power management systems is accurate and reliable.
• Cyber-security ready The meter is designed to align with grid cyber-security policies, with digitally signed, encrypted firmware, and secure protocols.
• Onboard power quality analysis This provides useful information, not just data, compliant with IEC 61000-4-30, IEC 62586-1 and IEC 62586-2, as well as extended waveform capture, and patented disturbance direction detection.
• Smart power event analysis This correlates related trends, events and waveforms automatically, based on the time and type of incident, thus saving time and providing insights with pre- and post-incident data.
• Patented ION programmability This adapts to power networks as they become more dynamic, supporting complex breaker monitoring or custom substation automation.
“The ION9000 is a big part of our answer to the new energy future,” says Alexis Grenon, Schneider’s senior vice-president for Power Solutions. “The rapid change in the energy industry will continue and any power system that is unable to adapt – for example, to any new standards, protocols, or certifications that will come in the future – may face obsolescence in as little as five years.
“The ION9000 provides the future-proof adaptability that modern power networks need,” he continues. “It offers a highly customisable platform, together with a new industry benchmark for accuracy, as well as a complete power quality analysis tool right out of the box, so it can quickly identify and help solve system power events.”
The ION9000 is a key element in Schneider’s EcoStruxure Power platform, part of its EcoStruxure open, interoperable system architecture which has been deployed in more than 480,000 installations, connecting more than 1.5 million assets.