The Future is Bright for Intelligent Transformers

Through ETOS® – the Embedded Transformer Operating System – Reinhausen is providing an open, modular system solution for monitoring, controlling, regulating, and digitalizing power transformers. It is the world’s first open operating system for intelligent transformers.

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One Solution for Everyone

The mod­u­lar struc­ture makes ETOS® a flex­i­ble solu­tion for a wide range of dig­i­tal­iza­tion projects and appli­ca­tions.

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  “The grad­ual dig­i­tal­iza­tion of our trans­form­ers enables us to eval­u­ate the sta­tus of our sys­tems sig­nif­i­cant­ly more quick­ly, more effi­cient­ly and, above all, more con­sis­tent­ly than before. We now no longer need to trav­el to the trans­form­ers but can access them direct­ly from the con­trol cen­ter instead.”Rúnar Svavar Svavars­son, Tech­ni­cal Man­ag­er at Veitur, Ice­land

The network operator

Dis­persed gen­er­a­tors, volatile volt­ages, increased net­work com­plex­i­ty, and loss of know-how are just some of the chal­lenges fac­ing net­work oper­a­tors. ETOS® helps to increase the reli­a­bil­i­ty and resilience of net­works and enables more effi­cient uti­liza­tion of trans­form­ers dur­ing oper­a­tion and main­te­nance. Dur­ing the dura­tion of their projects – and at any time after­wards – net­work oper­a­tors can ben­e­fit from Reinhausen’s advice and exper­tise.

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“The new, open oper­at­ing sys­tem for pow­er trans­form­ers allows us to pro­vide our cus­tomers with key advan­tages: We net­work our trans­form­ers with our cus­tomers’ dig­i­tal envi­ron­ments, increase reli­a­bil­i­ty, and max­i­mize flex­i­bil­i­ty with regard to con­nect­ing com­po­nents and accom­mo­dat­ing the require­ments of asset man­age­ment.” Dr. Jan Decler­cq, CTO at SGB-SMIT Group

The transformer manufacturer

All of the expe­ri­ence gained by Rein­hausen over decades of work­ing with trans­form­ers has gone into ETOS® which pro­vides trans­former man­u­fac­tur­ers with a scal­able, slim­line, indi­vid­u­al­ly adjustable dig­i­tal­iza­tion solu­tion. So they don’t need to spend time and mon­ey devel­op­ing their own sys­tems. And thanks to its inno­v­a­tive tech­ni­cal solu­tions, no addi­tion­al costs arise. The col­lect­ed data even helps man­u­fac­tur­ers to opti­mize their trans­form­ers and adapt them more effec­tive­ly to net­work con­di­tions and cus­tomer require­ments in the future.

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“We are con­fi­dent that ETOS® and PSI­con­trol will allow us to link net­work man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion and equip­ment infor­ma­tion in an intel­li­gent man­ner. The close part­ner­ship between PSI and MR cre­ates new oppor­tu­ni­ties for opti­miz­ing net­work man­age­ment which, for exam­ple, can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce net­work inter­ven­tions and enable bet­ter uti­liza­tion of the net­works.” Wolf­gang Fis­ch­er, Busi­ness Divi­sion Man­ag­er at PSI Soft­ware AG

The service provider

Ser­vice providers who plan new sys­tems for oper­a­tors can score points with dig­i­tal con­cepts. The mount­ing of ETOS® direct­ly on the trans­former allows the cap­tured data to be trans­ferred to the con­trol sys­tem via a stan­dard­ized con­trol-sys­tem pro­to­col using a fiber-optic cable. This great­ly reduces the amount of wiring need­ed com­pared to a con­ven­tion­al con­nec­tion method. Fur­ther­more, the open sys­tem allows ser­vice providers to inte­grate their own soft­ware in order to adapt process­es to cus­tomer require­ments.