In the age of big data and IoT, digital connectivity exists across the manufacturing floor, electric grid, buildings, healthcare facilities, transportation and in the home. We’re innovating Intelligent Power solutions that collect data, learn and provide actionable insights to optimize power use and continuity. 

Our focus is to improve the quality of life and the environment by advancing power management. This keeps us dedicated to engineering connected products that power your home, office, facility, machine, airplane or vehicle today and well into the future. 

We make the “things” that make the Internet of Things work. Our electrical, aerospace, hydraulic and vehicle products and services live at the origin of data. And with that data, we help you operate more efficiently than ever. 

IIoT-enabled devices can be leveraged to make smarter business decisions. We equip our products with sensors and sensing technologies to dissect the fundamental makeup of power - whether it’s electrical power, fluid power or mechanical power. Because we know how our products are best operated and maintained and have a depth of expertise in your applications, we continuously strive to make greater advancements in productivity and cost efficiency. 

Raw, unprocessed data has limited value. Transforming that data into actionable insights helps our customers reduce total cost of ownership, drive efficiency and maximize uptime. We use digital models, or “digital twins”, to mimic physical assets in the real world allowing us to rapidly design, build and test solutions virtually before committing to large capital investments. We then pull data from these "digital twins" to help inform new product development. 

We rely on industry-standard protocols and infrastructures to aggregate and disseminate data. While there are many processes within the markets we serve, we remain cloud and services agnostic. We strive to develop a communications platform approach that is open, scalable and secure — transforming the way systems, things, people and processes interact with one another. We also work with your partners to increase scalability and ease compliance.  

Using IIoT-enabled devices to collect and transform data into clear insights gives you the information needed to continually make better decisions faster. The information collected and analyzed by our products helps you optimize processes across the board to increase their overall value throughout an extended product lifecycle. With our Intelligent Power solutions, you and your customers can depend on a lower total cost of ownership and a healthier bottom line.

Our digital expertise and Intelligent Power solutions let us help you:

• Generate the raw data you need to develop insights
• Better understand your power use to create better business models
• Develop and deploy enhanced data-driven solutions

Visualization tools that use generated data to provide easy-to-use, consistent experiences across mobile devices, digital control screens and web-based apps. 

Services that allow us to consistently pull information from assets, store and analyze it and share it with customers.

 

Hardware and software packages that help us take advantage of the latest in computing power as it becomes available. 

Sharing information throughout our company is a critical part of how we leverage the idea of Intelligent Power. We efficiently capitalize on our scale by sharing the learnings from our core disciplines — electrical, hydraulics, aerospace and vehicle — through the Eaton Business System: cross-business processes that allow us to share best practices and synergies. While some players may have electrical expertise, for instance, they don’t have the luxury of data from a vehicle or hydraulics business. 

IntelliConnect: Provides diagnostics and predictive analytics through transmission codes, engine duty cycles and terrain information to notify truck drivers and fleet owners in real time of the severity of issues with a vehicle.

PredictPulse: A 24/7 predictive monitoring service for Eaton’s uninterruptible power systems that tracks and sends parametric data and real-time alarm information every 15 minutes to help ensure data center uptime. 

Resilient power: Whether on- or off-grid, our Power Xpert Energy Optimizer controller monitors and regulates every aspect of power. The controller is connected to an energy infrastructure and the utility grid via open protocols. Through diagnostics, predictive and prescriptive analytics and models, grids can operate under challenging conditions. 

Hydraulic boom stability control: This boom stability control system uses onboard sensors to prevent “boom bounce,” detecting vibrations with microprocessors and unique computerized algorithms to automatically stabilize cylinder position and the entire boom structure. 

Connected lighting: Physical light fixtures that increase building, business and community operating efficiencies through controls and data. Users control light and solve higher-complexity problems through sensing and communication features found inside the fixture.

In November 2017, Navigant Research announced that the market for IoT lighting solutions is expected to grow from $651.1 million in 2017 to $4.5 billion in 2026. In their recent report, “Navigant Research Leaderboard: IoT for Lighting,” Eaton was named a leading influencer in IoT for lighting.