How are dealers responding to Square Ds “distributed control” architecture?
What the distributed architecture really does for [dealers] — besides saving them money by them not having to buy that central processor and having to buy an additional one if they go one keypad over the capacity — the real value is the freedom it gives them on the job. Without that central processor they don’t have to coordinate back to that central point on which keypad’s doing what. So with the distributed intelligence, that keypad doesn’t need to be in a specific sequence in the line. It’s intelligent and it’s embedded in there so it’s communicating in a mesh, instead of back to a central point. Say on the job they want to change a design or add a keypad. It’s simple. They can just cut the wire, splice it and put it in and they’re done and they don’t have to go back and re-coordinate things with the processor. How does Square D/Clipsal plan to specifically cater to the retrofit market? Our European division has looked at Powerline carrier technologies. It’s something that we’re s
