SAN DIEGO, Calif. – June 6, 2006 –EDSA Micro Corporation today unveiled a new software application that accurately predicts when and where electrical power outages are going to occur, while there is still time to preempt them... helping to resolve a problem that drains more than $150 billion annually from the U.S. economy.
The new software application, called Paladin® Live™, is designed for use within facilities with large, “mission-critical” electrical power requirements... such as power generation plants, computer data centers, telephone network operations centers, airports, military bases, hospitals, petrochemical refineries, transportation networks, or other large production facilities... where electrical power outages result in downtime with costly or even catastrophic consequences.
Because 80% of downtime in such facilities is caused by electrical power problems within the facility itself, Paladin® Live™ helps organizations collectively save billions of dollars in losses... and continue to provide failsafe services for their customers despite operational problems. Besides ensuring optimum up-time, Paladin® Live™ also helps these facilities perfect their system management, maintenance, and emergency procedures... since human operator error is a leading cause of downtime.
“Even a medium-sized electrical power system can experience hundreds of thousands of conditions that make the system unmanageable... and worst case, generate an outage,” said Adib Nasle, president of EDSA. “Paladin® products not only help organizations design their electrical power systems so they are ‘Perfect on Paper,” but ensure that they operate precisely as they were designed."
In a related announcement, EDSA also announced that Eaton Corporation -- a global leader in electrical control, power distribution, and industrial automation products and services – will be reselling Paladin® Live™ as part of its own offerings.
Adaptive Intelligence, Prediction Technology
Paladin® Live™ is available immediately, with new software options scheduled for release throughout the year. Among these new options will be the first commercial use of “adaptive intelligence” and “auto-associative memories” software technologies... which will allow Paladin® Live™ to literally explore and teach itself about the operational details of an organization’s electrical power system.
This knowledge is not limited to only electrical components like circuits, switches, and connections: the system observes and learns about all of the electricity-drawing equipment throughout the operation, until it masters the correlations between the passage of time, important events, and cause-and-effect interactions between equipment.
Armed with the knowledge that it has learned on the job, Paladin® Live™ is then able to autonomously make expert assessments about the health of electrical power infrastructure, in order to distinguish between normal states of operation, and conditions that could – left unchecked – be symptomatic of a longer term operational problems.
About EDSA Micro Corporation
EDSA is a privately-held developer of software solutions for the design, simulation, deployment, and preventative maintenance of complex electrical power systems. Founded in 1983, the Company’s Paladin® software products are used by thousands of commercial, industrial, governmental, energy and military customers worldwide, to protect more than $100 billion in customer assets. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., the Company’s worldwide operations include 30 sales, distribution, and support offices located throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
For more information about EDSA and its products, visit www.edsa.com.
EDSA and Paladin are registered trademarks of EDSA Micro Corporation;
Paladin Live is a trademark of EDSA Micro Corporation.
For more information, please contact:
Jim Neumann, EDSA
jneumann@edsa.com
858.675.9211 x212
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