CASE STUDY: Schneider Electric

About Schneider Electric

With 180+ years of history and innovation, 135.000+ employees worldwide, Schneider Electric’s heritage empowers it to innovate at every level – and to ensure that Life Is On.

Schneider Electric drives digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.

Schneider Electric’s specialties include: Power Management, Process & Machines Management, IT Room Management, Building Management, Security Management, Industrial software design, simulation and optimisation, Industrial Automation, Control and safety systems and instrumentation, and Energy Management.

Product Background

Mongoose is integrated into Schneider Electric’s “Automation Runtimes” - a specialized distributed control system using multiplatform embedded devices. Where Mongoose powers a communication and RESTful API implementation.

We ran a short Q&A session with Santhosh Kumar P.B, Lead Architect at Industrial Automation Business Schneider Electric, to get his feedback on working with Mongoose.
Here are the key takeaways from it:

The challenge

Q: What challenges did you encounter that required Mongoose?

A: We needed the best in class web server for our devices which is lightweight and performant.

The decision

Q: Can you share a little about why you chose Mongoose and the process that led there?

A: After comparing the offers on the market, Mongoose was the only one which ticked all the boxes in terms of features, backed up with a good support.
We did not find a better commercially backed web server on the market than Mongoose, so the choice was really obvious.

The implementation

Q: What was it like integrating with Mongoose?

A: With the provided documentation, our teams were able to integrate Mongoose within 1-2 weeks effort.

The results

Q: What changed for you after you integrated Mongoose?

A: Schneider Electric’s controllers/devices are the best in class and with the high performance needs. Mongoose has helped us to achieve the required level of performance with the seamless integration.
Mongoose is very stable and we have not encountered any significant bugs.

Working with Mongoose

Q: What would you like others to know about working with Mongoose?

A: Easily, Mongoose is one of the best web servers on the market, works as advertised no less no more.