name: Eaton Vocabulary
description: |
  Operational, capability, product, and partnership vocabulary used across Eaton's digital surface — Brightlayer (Data Centers, Utilities, Industrial, Buildings, Mobility), the developer-portal API catalog, the Smart Breaker / EV Charger APIs, the Brightlayer Experience Hub marketplace, and AI-factory partnerships.
version: 0.1.0
modified: '2026-05-23'

products:
  - name: Brightlayer
    description: Eaton's intelligent digital portfolio spanning Data Centers, Utilities, Industrial, Buildings, and Mobility.
  - name: Brightlayer Data Centers Suite
    description: DCIM + Distributed IT + DCPM + EPMS software for managing power, cooling, space, and connectivity in data centers.
  - name: Brightlayer Utilities Suite
    description: Utility-facing software including Demand Response Management System (DRMS) and DR Analytics.
  - name: Brightlayer Industrial Suite
    description: Industrial power management including Power Xpert Protection Manager and Power Xpert Dashboard.
  - name: Brightlayer Buildings Suite
    description: Building energy management and lifecycle optimization (co-developed with Autodesk Tandem).
  - name: Brightlayer Mobility Suite
    description: EV charging and fleet eMobility management.
  - name: Brightlayer Power
    description: One of the four Brightlayer 8.0 on-premise offerings, focused on intelligent power management.
  - name: Brightlayer Distributed IT
    description: Performance management for distributed IT and edge UPS/PDU fleets.
  - name: Brightlayer DCIM
    description: Data Center Infrastructure Management.
  - name: Brightlayer EPMS
    description: Electrical Power Monitoring System.
  - name: Brightlayer Experience Hub
    description: Marketplace where customers and partners discover, purchase, and develop Brightlayer-built solutions.
  - name: Brightlayer UI
    description: Open-source design system and component libraries for React, Angular, and React Native used to build Brightlayer apps.
  - name: AbleEdge Smart Breaker
    description: Eaton's smart circuit breaker line for residential and commercial loads.
  - name: Green Motion EV Smart Breaker Charger
    description: Level-2 EV chargers integrated with the AbleEdge platform (hardwareType ev-emcb).
  - name: Rack PDU G4
    description: Eaton (formerly Tripp Lite) intelligent rack PDU with NMC exposing REST, SNMPv3, and Modbus TCP.
  - name: Beam Rubin DSX
    description: Eaton + NVIDIA reference architecture for end-to-end AI factories on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform with 800 VDC power.
  - name: Digital Energy Twin
    description: AI-powered building / data-center digital twin co-developed with Autodesk Tandem on top of Brightlayer.

apis:
  - name: Eaton Smart Breaker API
    aliases: [EM API, Energy Management API]
  - name: Eaton EV Smart Breaker Charger API
  - name: Eaton Smart Ambient Monitoring API
  - name: Brightlayer Demand Response Service API
  - name: Brightlayer Operations Insight APIs
  - name: Brightlayer RESTful API (On-Premise)
  - name: Eaton Rack PDU G4 REST API
  - name: CI-Data Open API (by WES)
  - name: Eaton easyE4 JSON API

terms:
  - term: emcb
    definition: hardwareType identifier for a standard Eaton AbleEdge Smart Breaker.
  - term: ev-emcb
    definition: hardwareType identifier for an Eaton Green Motion EV Smart Breaker Charger.
  - term: Em-Api-Subscription-Key
    definition: Required HTTP header carrying the customer/developer subscription key for all Eaton EM API requests.
  - term: DRMS
    definition: Demand Response Management System — Eaton's utility platform that orchestrates load-control switches.
  - term: DCIM
    definition: Data Center Infrastructure Management — Brightlayer module for end-to-end data-center operations.
  - term: DCPM
    definition: Data Center Performance Management — Brightlayer's holistic view of space, power, cooling, and connectivity.
  - term: EPMS
    definition: Electrical Power Monitoring System — Brightlayer module for electrical-system telemetry and alarms.
  - term: NMC
    definition: Network Management Card — embedded controller on Eaton Rack PDU G4 that exposes the REST API.
  - term: 800 VDC
    definition: Next-generation DC power architecture for AI factories advanced by Eaton/NVIDIA with the Beam Rubin DSX platform.
  - term: Vera Rubin
    definition: NVIDIA's GPU/AI platform used as the deployment target for the Eaton Beam Rubin DSX reference architecture.

partnerships:
  - partner: NVIDIA
    description: Co-developed Eaton Beam Rubin DSX platform for end-to-end AI-factory deployment with 800 VDC architecture.
  - partner: Autodesk
    description: Co-developed Brightlayer Digital Energy Twin (Brightlayer + Autodesk Tandem) for buildings and data centers.
  - partner: Siemens Energy
    description: Helping address global power bottlenecks for AI factories by enabling simultaneous data-center + onsite power build-out.
  - partner: Microsoft Azure
    description: Brightlayer hosting + telemetry pipelines run on Azure cloud infrastructure.

segments:
  - Power Management
  - Electrical
  - Aerospace
  - Vehicle
  - eMobility
  - Hydraulics (divested 2021)

tags:
  - Power Management
  - Electrical
  - Smart Breaker
  - EV Charging
  - Demand Response
  - Data Center
  - DCIM
  - PDU
  - UPS
  - Utility
  - Industrial
  - Building
  - Mobility
  - AI Factory
  - Energy
  - IoT
  - Sustainability