MR. GOPURAJ N

"ABB plays a crucial role in energy transition. Our goal is to help customers around the world optimize, electrify, and decarbonize their operations. Our Sustainability Agenda is fully aligned with this mission, guided by recognized bestpractice standards and is embedded throughout our business."

Q. Can you elaborate on your company’s profile, ABB Limited, as it is a pioneer in automation and electrification, paving the way for a future that is more resource efficient and sustainable?

As a leader in technology of electrification and automation, ABB plays a crucial role in energy transition. Our goal is to help customers around the world optimize, electrify, and decarbonize their operations. Our Sustainability Agenda is fully aligned with this mission, guided by recognized best-practice standards and is embedded throughout our business. Our aim is to enable a low-carbon society, preserve resources, and promote social progress for a net-zero future. As a global technology company, we strive to create a better world through safe, smart, and sustainable electrification. Our portfolio of automation solutions brings increased quality, accuracy, and precision to industrial processes, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. Our product portfolio is equipped with advanced technology and datadriven insights to optimize the management, efficiency & reliability of electrical assets.

Q. Can you please shed light on your company’s product portfolio under Smart Power & Smart Buildings?

At ABB, we specialize in offering a diverse range of cutting-edge products and services under our Smart Power & Smart Building offerings. These products deliver tangible advantages to our valued clientele. Smart Power division is the technology leader, with solutions that make power supplies smart, connected and protected. Our product portfolio provides the latest and most advanced technologies in power conditioning, low-voltage circuit breakers, switches, motor protection and control, and safety products. With data driven insights the energy efficiency, reliability and management of electrical assets can be optimized. Similarly Smart Buildings product range is equally exhaustive providing highly energy efficient, reliable & automation products covering Energy Distribution, Wiring Accessories and Building & Home Automation and Metering.

Q. What are the future trends in smart buildings sector? What opportunities do you foresee?

In a dynamic and ever evolving landscape businesses are increasingly using devices to monitor and manage real-time energy consumption. Automation is widely used to regulate HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems and lights to maximise comfort and energy efficiency. Utilising big data analytics, building data can yield insightful information that improves resource allocation and lowers carbon footprints. Cutting-edge technologies like augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and robots are anticipated to completely transform the Building Segment. Energy efficiency and sustainability will be the main drivers behind the creation of smart Buildings. Further, it is projected that the use of voice-activated automation, facial recognition technology, biometric security systems, and environmentally responsive smart materials will rise. Building towards a decarbonisation journey is the first step for us. ABB AbilityTM Building Analyzer tracks building data (temperature, equipment runtime hours, occupancy, and costs) and utilities (energy, gas, water, and steam) in real-time and offers practical insights to help you save money while enhancing sustainability, occupant awareness, and energy efficiency. ABB AbilityTM Building Analyzer is a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) solution that can extract data from an infinite number of data points of nearly any type and source and present it in an intuitive interface. Insights are transformed into areas that can be improved, measured, and ranked according to ROI, energy use, and carbon emissions. The solution enables users to connect to the service from any commercial building, regardless of size or type of tenant.

Q. As your company is a platinum sponsor of EL Asia 2024, how are you gearing up for this mega event?

ABB is showcasing the latest global technologies and introducing them to India at this year’s ELASIA. This provides the customers the opportunity to physically view the products at the stalls, get answers to their questions, and gain a good understanding of the company and its product offerings. It helps give the customers a walk-through of the product and its operation, with a proper touch and feel helping them visualise their usage within their own projects. They can experience the benefits and unique features in real time through exciting product demonstrations. This mega event also helps enhance the visibility, reaching a wide number of existing and prospective Customers.

Q. As your technology and innovations are evolving every time, what have been the strategies, priorities & key challenges your company has come across?

ABB has a proud history of technological innovation and just to mention we are celebrating 100 years of our invention of Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB). We have not only pioneered but also innovated several automated technologies and maintained our market leadership. Sustainability is one of our top priorities, as it will play a pivotal role in the overall development of the industry & help align them to the future of circularity. Smart Applications are becoming more and more of an economic necessity, as they optimize resource utilization, and there will be a significant shift in the way buildings industry operates in the future. At ABB, we are heavily focused on technological advancements. We offer a wide variety of energy management solutions that are scalable for automation and energy control, no matter the size of the application. The Customer is at the core of all our innovation strategies and as technology evolves, we will continue to remain a strong partner on this journey towards Safe, Smart & Sustainable use of energy.