How can industrial supervision at a historic site be modernized without interrupting operations?
The Palace of Versailles, open 7 days a week to 7.5 million visitors a year, could not tolerate any interruption. AVEVA System Platform, Historian Clients and InTouch Edge HMI enabled a phased rollout across more than 700,000 m² of buildings. Migrating existing data to a centralized platform took more than three years, without ever closing the site. This approach shows how digital transformation can fit into a sensitive heritage environment while modernizing technical networks.
What is the role of AVEVA System Platform in managing a large-scale heritage site?
AVEVA System Platform acts as an industrial operating system that centralizes the management of heating, electricity, air conditioning, and IT and telephone networks at the Palace of Versailles. It connects seven dedicated supervision servers, two hot-redundant servers at separate sites and five secure hubs. This object-oriented architecture makes it possible to logically model processes and equipment, simplifying maintenance and documentation throughout the life cycle of the installations.
Why is AVEVA Historian Clients essential for optimizing energy consumption?
AVEVA Historian Clients consolidates high-resolution real-time data from the seven supervision servers at the Palace of Versailles. This industrial database makes it possible to analyze consumption trends, identify energy-intensive equipment and generate detailed reports. Access to traceable, usable data allows teams to optimize the estate's energy consumption, a major challenge for a 700,000 m² site that must combine heritage preservation with industrial performance.
How does AVEVA InTouch Edge HMI improve technician responsiveness in the control room?
AVEVA InTouch Edge HMI gives technicians a standardized, intuitive graphical interface, allowing them to navigate from an overview down to the details of each level of the palace, including the attics, via a 3D screen in the control center. Operators view equipment status in real time from their workstation, which considerably reduces incident response times and service restoration time. It is an industrial supervision standard suited to complex infrastructure.
What concrete benefits has the Palace of Versailles gained from its AVEVA modernization project?
AVEVA solutions have enabled the Palace of Versailles to achieve the three objectives of the €400 million project: historic restoration, modernization of management processes and improvement of the visitor experience. Operational benefits include a significant reduction in response times to maintenance issues, better data integration, lower system development costs and optimized energy consumption. Hot-server redundancy guarantees the continuity of service essential to a world-renowned site.
