Interview with an ACS project manager: digitalization, internet of things and smart cities

What are "smart" cities, digitalization and the Internet of things? What is the role of programmers in the age of high technologies and artificial intelligence? The manager of key projects of Schneider Electric, Andrey Binevsky, answered these questions and not only for the Pixel school.





Tell us about your work - what do you do, is your work directly or indirectly related to programming?





I work as a key project manager for automated power supply control systems (ACS) at Schneider Electric. It is a major global electrical equipment vendor. My work with programming is rather indirectly, because I manage programming projects, I sell projects in which programmers work, since no "smart" system can be organized without coding, without the labor of engineers and programmers.





What are automated power supply control systems (ACS)? Tell us more.





There are different approaches to energy supply systems. In general, what is energy? Energy is not only electricity, it is also water, gas, heat, steam. To generate steam you need water and gas, or water and electricity; to generate hot water you need both water and electricity. And for each household or technological task, you need to choose the best options for the implementation of energy resources. We must not generate excessive heat, we must not create too much warm water, so that we can later drain it down the drain. It is necessary to find that symbiosis between the required amount of energy resources and the amount created. This symbiosis is called energy efficiency. That is, all systems must be energy efficient.





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Help . Most often, ICS managers grow out of technical specialties, such as system administrators, equipment adjusters, electrical engineers, machine gun engineers, etc. The salary of a specialist most often consists of a salary and a bonus for fulfilling the plan. The average salary of managers of automated control systems in Moscow, according to hh.ru, is from 100 thousand rubles .








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