Bentley Systems extends infrastructure digital twins

Bentley Systems has acquired power systems engineering software developer EasyPower to incorporate its solutions in digital twins.

With the acquisition, Bentley Systems intends to incorporate electrical modelling and analysis across the lifecycle of digital twins of every type and thereby broadening its comprehensiveness in infrastructure engineering.

EasyPower’s design and analysis software solutions, including arc flash solutions for electrical engineering professionals, are aimed primarily for designing, analysing and monitoring power distribution systems serving industrial and commercial facilities, to ensure safety, reliability and regulatory compliance.

With an increasingly electrified future and with disparate and widely distributed energy resources on both sides of the meter, all infrastructure assets will benefit in terms of performance, economics, safety and resilience from continued simulation and assessment of power distribution conditions and designs over their project and operating lifecycles, a Bentley Systems statement reads.

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“All infrastructure projects and assets have power distribution systems, which are too frequently analysed using unnecessarily complicated software that is disconnected from 3D/4D BIM and digital twin workflows,” comments Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley.

“By incorporating EasyPower within our design and modelling portfolio, and our iTwin platform, we can help enable the distribution systems powering infrastructure to be more readily adapted to new imperatives for sustainability and resilience, while making electrical safety assurance more ubiquitous, accessible and evergreen.”

Priorities for Bentley Systems will include integrating EasyPower’s schema and digital workflows with its OpenBuildings, OpenFlows, OpenPlant, OpenRail and Bentley Raceway and Cable Management applications.

EasyPower CEO Kevin Bates added delight in joining Bentley Systems at this point of inflection for electrical power in infrastructure and in infrastructure digital twins.

“Our purpose has been to make electricity more accessible, more reliable and safer to use.”