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Welcome to the Distribution Solutions Challenge

Alessandro Palin 
President 
Distribution Solutions
ABB Electrification

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Make electricity reliable and resilient for people around the world

Causal analysis system to facilitate operational management and decisions to keep critical power distribution systems at our customers’ premises up and running.

Apply now, if you want to work with us on:

• Simplifying and accelerating the behavioral analysis of power distribution systems such as substations or switchgear 

• Creating a digital tool that can ingest diverse OT & IT system/device data on these systems

• Identifying behavioral patterns of power distribution systems based on the mined data by leveraging pre-defined rules and AI capabilities

• Automatically guiding customers to the root cause of abnormal behavior of their power distribution system (e.g., fault analysis)

• Providing clear mitigations how to fix the root cause to ensure the future readiness of power distribution systems (based on pre-defined rules)

Focus segments

• Hospitals

• Data Centers 

• Utilities
   

The open innovation X factor:

• You are welcome to apply even if your solution is not completely within the scope. We are always open for out of the box solutions

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Awards for the winner: 

• $30,000 for a collaboration with ABB Electrification to develop an MVP that can be productized and offered to ABB customers

• 6 month free SynerLeap membership, ABB's startup accelerator, which will boost your growth and visibility across ABB, our partners and customers (Value $8'000)

• Exclusive mentoring sessions with Microsoft startup advisors

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Collaborate with ABB experts

• You will receive expert support from ABB during the 10 days of competition

Distribution Solutions 

Sherif El-Meshad, Digital Lead 

Ganesh Kulathu, Digital Systems Global Product Management

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Technical environment in power distribution systems

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About Distribution Solutions

ABB’s Distribution Solutions Division is a technology leader in electric power distribution. Our 17,000 employees are dedicated to delivering safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions to customers in more than 100 countries. We enable our customers in utilities, industries, infrastructure and transportation segments to help improve electric power quality, situational awareness, reduce outage time, and enhance operational reliability and efficiency. With ABB Ability™ enabled digital products and solutions, our switching, limiting, measuring and sensing devices, switchgear, modular substation packages and related services, are reinforced with value-added digitalization layers to allow customers to unlock the full potential of their electrical systems.