Overall advantages of solid-state electrical architecture

The most advanced wall switches on the market today include capacitive touch screens and wireless controls to provide more convenience. However, the vast majority of these designs still use electromechanical relays to control the load current today.

With the acceleration of technological innovation, power infrastructure has fallen behind the innovation curve, but the adoption of power management innovation has slowed down significantly.

With the explosive growth of electronic devices in all homes and buildings, problems in the electrical infrastructure are accumulating. Several large companies are working hard to provide innovative visions of electrical innovation based on solid-state switch concepts with integrated software, mainly for commercial and industrial applications.

Solid-state digital control

Breakthroughs in power digital control allow upgradeable firmware and machine learning embedded algorithms in buildings. The solid-state architecture—electronic components and silicon chips—makes this breakthrough possible, enabling software intelligence to be directly integrated into electrical products, electrical infrastructure, and thus into building structures.

The innovative digital features of solid-state architecture create possibilities for expanding functionality, adding value, and integrating and expanding existing intelligent building systems, such as residential and commercial security, commercial fire protection, access control, and building automation.

The overall advantages of solid-state electrical architecture include:

Improve reliability: There are few or zero moving parts, and higher reliability is guaranteed.

Faster and safer operation: The solid-state architecture enables faster operations, such as circuit breaker intervention.

Size reduction: The ability to reduce the size of power management technology through solid-state architecture opens up many additional features.

Smarter operation: The solid-state architecture is well-suited to accommodate algorithms and firmware, so machine-to-machine control (M2M) and machine learning intelligence (ML) can be integrated into the infrastructure.

Smart circuit breaker

"The utility grid is a key resource for Amber's operations," said Thar Casey, founder, president, and CEO of Amber Solutions. He continued: “Amber created a unique AC-DC enabler, a pseudo-switching converter, that uniquely converts a small portion of AC mains or grid power into adjustable DC power. Amber defines The use of AC Mains and developed another unique power control method, this time is to control AC power into the AC load. Through our Digital Power Management and Control System (DPMC), this is a small solid-state device, the system, and Its microcontroller, processor, and radiofrequency equipment are directly connected to AC power."

The state fixing method can simplify installation, reduce total cost, increase functionality and provide higher installation efficiency. Pre-installing such feature-rich devices can provide a ready-to-use platform for various functions. Amber's technology is a digital power management system, which is a small solid-state device that can efficiently manage the power of highly complex microcontrollers, processors, and RF devices directly from AC power. It eliminates the need for bulky electromechanical components (such as capacitors and magnets) that limit the reliability and functionality of today's equipment, effectively reducing the number of components.

"The major technological breakthrough will be contained in a single solution. We have found a way to eliminate the electromechanical power converter that converts alternating current to direct current. That power converter has an electrolytic magnetic transformer, which is electromechanical. We Found a way to eliminate it and turn it into a complete solid solution. Therefore, we will be able to solve the state, we will be able to completely turn it into a chip, and eventually, its size will be a small part of it," Casey said.

The solid-state modernization of traditional power infrastructure can provide upgrades in terms of quality, reliability, and safety, but it also has the opportunity to use intelligence as the foundation of the Internet of Things.

This promise of built-in intelligence in buildings can provide a range of benefits, from improved safety to energy saving, from advanced automation with built-in machine learning intelligence to continuous understanding of the environmental conditions in the building’s room to promote human health, and it’s also located in Inside the enclosure of a facility that monitors changes in the condition of the building.