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.

Press Release

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

 

In 2014, Kalkitech acquired Applied Systems Engineering Inc., (ASE), a Smart Grid protocol technology leader and a leading manufacturer of RTU/SCADA/IED protocol test sets. The ASE2000 RTU/SCADA Test Set and ASE61850 Relay/IED Test Set are the market leader used by technicians in utilities globally. Based in Campbell, California, ASE has developed market-leading protocol test sets supporting more than 80+ protocols. ASE was founded in 1982 and in late 2014, became part of Kalkitech, a provider of Smart Grid optimization and communication solutions.

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:


  1. ABB: Software-defined Electrification  in cooperation with Red Hat
  2. Kalkitech: Edge for Smart Secondary Substation in cooperation with Intel
  3. EcoPhi: AI-Powered Substation Automation
  4. Fortinet: Virtualized Cybersecurity for Substation Automation
  5. Kalkitech: Utility / DERMS integration using DER Gateway
  6. ABB and Kalkitech: Virtualized Protection Automation and Control in cooperation with Intel and Vmware


2025 Photo gallery

Contact us for more information

Paul

O'Shaughnessy

Energy & Utilities Sector Head

Advantech Europe

Daniel

Sun

Energy &Utilities Sector PSM

Advantech Europe

Andrea

Nemeth

Energy & Utilities Sector Marketing

Advantech Europe


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Rick de Vries, IIoT Sales Director Central Europe, said: “At SPS Germany 2023, we will demonstrate the power of real-time virtualization and how to achieve the highest levels of cyber security. We will also display our latest AI implementation, which has been designed to provide valuable insight and modeling capabilities for situational awareness, predictive maintenance and IoT gateway solutions, for connecting to management clouds.” Additionally, Rick said, “We want to provide SPS visitors with the opportunity to interact and explore technologies that will define the future, while always keeping human beings at the forefront, in the perspective of enabling a smart and sustainable society.”

Jash Bansidhar, Managing Director of Advantech Europe, added: "Projects involving the use of IIoT are being implemented on an increasing scale today. The Industrial Internet of Things has definitely ceased to be just a concept and has become a real foundation for the operation of many manufacturing companies. The benefits in terms of process transparency, i.e. the possibility of their monitoring and optimization, are obvious. As a result, there is an increasing need for integrators and providers of IIoT technologies. From our perspective, this means development into local partner networks. Advantech's business model assumes that we offer our solutions to individual markets through local partners. The development of our company's ecosystem is an important element of its strategy. Moreover, the progressing globalization makes industries look for global support services - both in terms of assessing the possibility of using technology and its implementation and further maintenance. Advantech, as a global company with many years of experience, is ready to provide such support.”


At the booth, visitors can learn more through interactive demos and speak to Advantech’s specialist team, exploring the following applications and areas: 

  • Artificial Intelligence: Among the solutions at the booth are data-driven and AI-enabled use cases that will improve manufacturing operations with advanced digital simulations, autonomous factory operations, digital quality management, and strategic asset management.
  • Digital transformation: Manufacturing in the past has focused on lean and just-in-time production processes, emphasizing cost reduction, waste elimination, and increased efficiency of the entire organization through customer demand-pulling processes. Nowadays, digital technology provides fundamental value that presents commercial value through the immediacy and accuracy of information — driving rapid responses and decision-making.
  • Virtualization: Virtualization is a method that enables a computer to share its hardware resources with numerous digitally separated environments. Each virtualized environment uses its own set of resources, such as memory, computing power, and storage. This area will focus on tools for virtualized environments with Advantech’s powerful solutions.
  • AGV/AMR/Robotics: This area will include the latest solutions for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) by providing robot manufacturers and integrators access to both cutting-edge industrial computing technology and a powerful software platform for building, deploying, and running intelligent robots.
  • Technology area: At this final technology focus area, Advantech will showcase its software and tools, detailing how the company can speed up the development process, with its show team available to answer any questions and provide useful insight.


The SPS is the industry highlight of the automation sector and, with its unique concept, represents the complete spectrum of smart and digital automation - from simple sensors to intelligent solutions, from what is feasible today to the vision of a comprehensively digitized industrial world.

Do you need practical automation solutions for your field of work? Are you looking for approaches to solutions for the challenges of tomorrow? Then the SPS is the right place for you. The participation of highly qualified exhibitors and visitors enables you to exchange ideas at eye level and enjoy three qualitative days at the event.