Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation today announced the successful completion of a strategic project with Europe’s largest centre for ophthalmic treatment, Moorfields Eye Hospital.
 
Founded in London in 1805, Moorfields Eye Hospital employs 1,800 staff who treat thousands of patients each year. This establishment is reputed for providing its patients with an exceptional level of care, which is only made possible with an efficient and highly available infrastructure that provides site managers with the required level of insight and control over their facility.
 
As the oldest and largest centre for ophthalmic treatment, teaching, and research in Europe, Moorfields Eye Hospital has recently invested in a Schneider Electric EcoStruxure for Healthcare solution in its drive to modernise its aging infrastructure. This EcoStruxure deployment features, among other facility insight solutions, RTLS (Real Time Location Systems) technology, which facilitates the tracking of staff, patients, and critical assets within the hospital premises, as well as monitoring general patient flows.
 
“The EcoStruxure platform has allowed me to integrate all of the systems into one proper platform, which has helped us get all of the right data at the right time. We’ve spent fewer man hours maintaining the system and my OPEX costs have gone down,” explains Chris Harding, Director of Estates and Facilities, Moorfields Ey
e Hospital.
 
“This project is a great proof point Schneider Electric’s collaboration with world-class healthcare institutions, to provide them with innovative, cost-effective solutions that promote efficiency and safety, said Chris Needham, Healthcare Solutions Lead at Schneider Electric. As with all our customers, we are committed to a strong partnership with Moorfields, now and for the long-term. Thanks to our healthcare solution experts in the UK and our EcoStruxure IoT-enabled infrastructure platform, we are able to provide Moorfields with the facility insight they need to run effectively and efficiently.
 
About Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure
EcoStruxure is Schneider Electric’s open, interoperable, IoT-enabled system architecture delivering enhanced value 

around safety, reliability, efficiency, sustainability, and connectivity for our customers. EcoStruxure leverages technologies in IoT, mobility, sensing, cloud, analytics, and cyber security to deliver Innovation at Every Level including Connected Products, Edge Control, and Apps, Analytics & Services. EcoStruxure has been deployed in 450,000+ installations, with the support of 9,000 system integrators, connecting over 1 billion devices. For more information about EcoStruxure, please read our EcoStruxure brochure.
 
EcoStruxure is tailored to four end markets in which Schneider Electric has decades of expertise and experience: Building, Data Centre, Industry, and Grid.
By bridging Information Technology and Operational Technology, EcoStruxure lets customers maximise the value of data. Specifically, it helps them translate data into actionable intelligence, to make better business decisions. By bringing together the worlds of energy, automation, and software, EcoStruxure takes advantage of the full potential of IoT.
 
EcoStruxure for Healthcare helps make the best of the hospital’s existing infrastructure by integrating the older but valuable building systems into one comprehensive platform. Having full visibility into the hospital infrastructure, Chris’ teams can now ensure that many aspects of the building now under control can monitor and report when outside health and safety compliance.
 
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