ABB Electrification Virtual Startup Challenge
3 challenges, 3 winners

Innovate the digital future of smart homes 

ABB is a world-leading provider of smart home solutions. The company is working together with partners to create smarter residential homes.

Through intelligent and automatic lighting, air-conditioning, heating and movement detection, we provide greater energy efficiency and increased security. In a Smarter Home you can get the best in comfort and control the heart of the home at the touch of a button remotely or from the comfort of your armchair.

We are looking for innovative solutions, which enhance the ABB Smart Home offering as a means to lower the energy footprint, engaging and supporting the end-users to seriously start having sustainable behaviors and enhancing their habits, entertaining while pushing forward to sustainability.

Energy efficiency in Industrial buildings 

The demand for energy in industrial plants has a relevant impact on the overall production costs.

Digitalization has transformed electrical systems, allowing them to achieve maximum performance, reducing costs and development time. Optimizing electrical systems becomes possible through the collection of real-time data from loads, power consumed as well as other inputs such as power availability from power sources (solar systems, local storage systems, environmental data such as temperature and humidity). 

We would like to improve and enhance the energy efficiency for any plant through its Energy Management and are looking for innovative solutions to optimize loads inside of a plant.

Reliable power distribution in Industry and Utilities 

Today reliable and constantly available energy supply is crucial. To distribute power from power generation to and within process industry plants, data center and other infrastructure areas, medium and low voltage switchgear solutions are used.

The correct function of components in the switchgear, such as circuit breaker, over the entire life depends on the environmental conditions i.e. in harsh environment regular maintenance is required. With digitalization of switchgear and collection of data i.e. from temperature sensors, the target is to determine the operating conditions and derive reliable information on switchgear availability. 

We are looking for innovative solutions to detect changes in conditions of electrical equipment and environment of switchgear inside of a plant.