Why visit this event?
Enlit Europe 2026 (Vienna, Austria) is one of the energy sector’s leading international events dedicated to the acceleration of the digital transformation of energy systems.
Where to find Advantech & its partners?
Visit booth
Ah30,
in Hall A of VIECON – Vienna Congress & Convention Center, Austria between 10 and 12 November 2026, and explore Advantech's
cutting-edge hardware and software offerings focused on
Software Defined Automation.
Focus Areas

Substation Automation
& Virtualization

Connectivity & Cybersecurity

Battery Energy Storage Systems
& Renewables
Advantech will exhibit its WebAccess: Secure Remote Management and Remote Asset Monitoring demo as well as our hardware portfolio.
Discover our live demonstrations in cooperation with our ecopartners:
- AI EdgeLabs: Grid Edge Secured by Design
- Bosch Rethrox: CtrlX – Your Open Edge Platform for Energy Infrastructure
- Grid to Great: Software Defines Substation and Experience Pack: Hassle-Free Process Bus Experience
-
Kalkitech/ASE:
Software Defined Substation
- Zero Parallax: Continuous health monitoring for the grid
Read our official Press Release to find out more about our booth proposal and live demos.
AI EdgeLabs AI EdgeLabs delivers AI-native runtime security for the devices and workloads that modern energy infrastructure increasingly depends on. From substation gateways and industrial PCs to GPU servers, containers and AI agents, AI EdgeLabs protects the edge host itself, detecting and stopping threats directly on the device in real time.
- Built for the edge: one lightweight container deploys in minutes on x86 and ARM, works fully offline and detects threats with sub-millisecond on-host latency.
- Complete protection: network intrusion and lateral-movement detection, host and container security, ransomware and privilege-escalation prevention, and vulnerability management that prioritises the CVEs actually exposed in production.
- Compliance ready: continuous posture checks with built-in mappings for NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act and IEC 62443, so operators stay audit-ready.
- AI-assisted response: MITRE-mapped alerts, investigation support and automatically generated playbooks help small security teams close incidents in minutes.
Advantech and Bosch Rexroth ctrlX OS combine industrial edge hardware with an open, secure and scalable software platform for tomorrow’s energy infrastructure. From renewable generation and energy storage to substations and distributed energy assets, energy infrastructure increasingly needs local intelligence, secure connectivity and flexible software.
ctrlX OS provides the common software foundation
- Open: Develop and integrate your own applications using Linux technologies and an app-based architecture.
- Secure: Industrial security is built into the platform. ctrlX OS is IEC 62443-4-2 Security Level 2 certified.
- Real-time capable: Bring edge applications and control workloads together on one industrial platform, depending on the selected architecture and hardware.
- Scalable: Use a consistent platform approach across field, edge/IPC and server environments, depending on hardware and application requirements.
- Extendable: Combine your own software with validated applications from the ctrlX OS ecosystem.
- Manageable: Centrally manage devices, applications, licenses, configurations, backups, rollouts and security updates with ctrlX Device Portal.
Your applications. Your services. One industrial edge platform.
Grid to Great is a pioneer in substation digitalization, building on more than 40 years of innovation that began with Locamation in Enschede, the Netherlands in 1983. We help utilities, system integrators and industrial operators make their grids more flexible, efficient and resilient, the foundation of an accelerating energy transition.
Our IEC 61850-compliant and certified Process Interface Units digitize voltage and current data at the source. The compact, DIN-rail Voltage SAMU and Current SAMU (Stand-Alone Merging Units) are 60% smaller than conventional designs, plug-and-play over two fibre-optic cables and combine protection and power quality in a single device. Together with our virtualization software, including the virtual Merging Unit (vMU), with vPMU (2026) and vPQ (2027) on the roadmap, they enable centralization of devices and software-defined substations across greenfield and brownfield, MV to HV, AIS and GIS, for utilities, industry, data centres and onshore & offshore DER.
Grid to Great is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified, with technology deployed in more than 150 substations across five countries and partnerships including leading TSO's and DSO’s worldwide. Visit us to discover how we shape a smarter, software-defined substation future -together.
Kalkitech helps in the digital transformation of the energy and utility industry to achieve operational excellence. Kalkitech's solutions enable customers to implement mission-critical applications from the edge to the data center or cloud. To build standards-based solutions, services, and products, Kalkitech invest extensively in research and development in several areas, including power systems engineering, thermal engineering, control theory and communication, and information technology
Built on Intel® Xeon® server hardware, the setup showcases a standards-based, software-defined, hardware consolidated platform spanning process and station bus networks. At the process bus, an ASE 61850 Test BNET system simulates Merging Units delivering Sampled Values to a reference Virtual Protection Relay (VPR)—developed using Kalkitech’s modular Virtualization Development Framework (VDF) and hosted atop the open-source SEAPATH hypervisor.
Upon injecting a simulated fault condition, the VPR publishes an IEC 61850 GOOSE trip command, which is instantly surfaced on the Substation Alarm & Monitoring (SAM) annunciator hosted within an orchestrated Virtual SAS (vSAS) cluster comprising HMI, PMS, and Substation Gateway. Complete end-to-end timing, GOOSE delivery, and protection performance metrics are verified and analyzed via the ASE 61850 Test tool suite.
Zero Parallax builds a thermal asset health tracker for energy utilities facing growing demand, renewable integration and ageing assets. Its proprietary wide-angle thermal imaging monitors all critical substation assets around the clock, and its auditable data fusion platform shows in real time how assets respond under changing conditions and which ones need attention.
Technology Partners

Founded in 1968, Intel’s technology has been at the heart of computing breakthroughs. Intel is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. They stand at the brink of several technology inflections—artificial intelligence (AI), 5G network transformation, and the rise of the intelligent edge—that together will shape the future of technology. Silicon and software drive these inflections, and Intel is at the heart of it all.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
AMD is the high performance and adaptive computing leader, powering the products and services that help solve the world’s most important challenges. Our technologies advance the future of the data center, embedded, gaming and PC markets.
Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees who were passionate about creating leading-edge semiconductor products. AMD has grown into a global company setting the standard for modern computing, with many important industry firsts and major technological achievements along the way.
Micron is the world leader in innovative memory solutions that transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. For over 45 years, Micron has been instrumental to the world’s most significant technology advancements, delivering optimal memory and storage systems for a broad range of applications.

Microsoft creates platforms and tools powered by AI to deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers. The technology company is committed to making AI available broadly and doing so responsibly, with a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
NXP
builds solutions—not just products—that enhance the capabilities of people, organizations, and the world at large.
They are committed to keeping their customers ahead of the competition and helping them to prepare for change.
From Austin to Toulouse, Shenzhen to Nijmegen, NXP people around the globe work to make our world a safer, smarter more connected place.
NVIDIA technologies have been used for more than 30 years by scientists, researchers, developers, and creators to do amazing things.
NVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges no one else can solve.
Their work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society.
Red Hat is an open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a consistent, comprehensive foundation for transformative IT and artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the enterprise. As a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500, Red Hat offers cloud, developer, Linux, automation, and application platform technologies, as well as award-winning services.
Since 1999, Savoir-faire Linux has been a leader in open-source software engineering with offices in France and Canada. Specialist in embedded systems, our experts help manufacturers, utilities, as well as energy technology providers, to develop, industrialize and secure their products and solutions. We bridge the gap between research, prototyping, and large-scale industrial deployment. Strongly involved in the LF Energy since 2021, SFL has a proven track record of delivering high-quality services to prominent utilities and energy stakeholders. Our teams combine cutting-edge software engineering with a deep understanding of energy sector challenges, from IT/OT convergence to interoperability and cybersecurity.
Our Alliances
Edge for Smart Secondary Substation (E4S) Alliance is a community driving standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure architecture for the utilities.
Increased demand for electricity puts a huge stress on power grid infrastructure, with the electrification of transportation, power storage, and requirements to maximize the utilization of renewables at the edge of the grid among the critical functions that the grid will be called upon to support.
Adaptive “smart” grid control is crucial to enable operators to manage demand for power and reliability across the board. To deliver electricity reliably, we need to build the next-generation smart grid. The industry has created the Edge for Smart Secondary Substations (E4S) Alliance accelerates the creation of standards-based flexible, manageable, and interoperable platforms.

VPAC Alliance is Driving standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure software-defined architecture to host protection, automation, and control solutions for power system substations. The global move to a sustainable energy infrastructure is placing stress on the power grid as weather-dependent renewable energy sources are deployed at all layers. At the same time, new loads are being added to the grid, dramatically increasing our dependence on electricity. Transportation is switching from liquid petroleum to electric batteries, heating and cooking systems are being electrified, and our appetite for computing and communications systems continues to grow. A new paradigm of adaptive, resilient, secure, and intelligent grid control enables operators to manage these increasingly bi-directional and highly dynamic-evolving power systems. To address the industry challenges, technology leaders created the Virtual Protection Automation and Control (vPAC) Alliance call for standards for flexible, manageable, and interoperable platforms. Using software-defined technologies and virtualized versions of standard solutions, industry participants can then build out the adaptive, intelligent tools and algorithms needed for the grid of the future.

450 MHz Alliance is an industry association representing stakeholders in the 450 MHz spectrum.
The members of the alliance include wireless carriers, equipment manufacturers, and companies in various vertical markets for machine-to-machine communication.
The alliance is committed to promoting the potential of the 450 MHz spectrum and helping its members achieve their objectives more effectively.
Enlit 2025 Aftermovie
Episodes from Enlit 2025 video series
Watch our video series, and get to know our live demonstrations back from Enlit Bilbao.
See our 2025 demo list below.
Advantech Webaccess/DMP and Edge Automation - SoftPLC & EtherCAT, CODESYS-Ready Platform.
Solutions presented at Enlit in cooperation with our partners:
- ABB: Software-defined Electrification in cooperation with Red Hat
- Kalkitech: Edge for Smart Secondary Substation in cooperation with Intel
- EcoPhi: AI-Powered Substation Automation
- Fortinet: Virtualized Cybersecurity for Substation Automation
- Kalkitech: Utility / DERMS integration using DER Gateway
- ABB and Kalkitech: Virtualized Protection Automation and Control in cooperation with Intel and Vmware


























