Power system intelligence and reliability for your entire infrastructure

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Today, the growth of IT load, variable IT rack densities, and virtual machine technology combined with lower capital budgets and the pressure to make better use of existing infrastructure has created a power management “tsunami”. This wave of change challenges traditional management system tools and methodologies. “Business as usual” is not only unsustainable, it threatens availability. Riding this new wave requires in-depth situational awareness which can only be delivered by a power management system specifically designed for a data center.

As a key element within our modular and integrated StruxureWare for Data Centers software suite, Power Monitoring Expert – Data Center Edition is a specialized solution that provides comprehensive electrical system intelligence. With deep insight into the operation of your electrical infrastructure, it ensures your data centers can operate at the design level of reliability while still minimizing energy costs and making the most of your current assets.

Plug-in to all your electrical assets

In the past, managing the power distribution system in a data center was much easier because infrastructure tended to be overbuilt, IT rack densities were low and uniform, and IT equipment power utilization was low.

Moving beyond business as usual

Power Monitoring Expert – Data Center Edition collects and manages data so you can optimize your facility’s performance. It provides the perfect combination of data and analysis tools to meet the unique needs of your data center, enabling relevant information sharing and user-to-user collaboration.

Power Monitoring Expert – Data Center Edition provides today’s operations with reliability and power system intelligence

Manage power system efficiency to meet the changing demands of your data center.

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StruxureWare Power Monitoring Expert – Data Center Edition connects seamlessly to your electrical assets, providing a communicating layer of intelligence across your energy enterprise, and it helps you meet your financial and operational goals. It actively monitors and analyses the electrical power distribution infrastructure of your dedicated data center facility – including MV, LV and IT floor power (from service entrance to rack).

Components that integrate for a world-class,optimised, and totally efficient solution

Seamless integration and communications intelligence

Good system design provides advantages that far outweigh benefits at the component level

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Combined facility capital and operational expenses will be up to four times greater than the cost of the server itself

StruxureWare Power Monitoring Expert - Data Center Edition helps you meet your financial and operational goals

Solution componentsSoftware Applications:

> Power Monitoring & Control > Generator Test > Generator Power > UPS Power > Branch Circuit Power > PUE > Power System Losses > Branch Circuit Energy

Additional Elements: > Communication Gateways > Metering, Protection, & PLCs > Engineering Services > Solution Support Services

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> Identify and track over-subscribed capacity (ex: UPS, generators, switchboards, etc.)

> Identify redundancy comprised IT branch circuits

> Identify power equipment maintenance needs (ex: transformer temperature monitoring, UPS battery failures)

> Perform and document regular power equipment testing (ex: generator testing)

> Perform root cause analysis on electrical distribution system events (partial and full outages) to help reduce the probability of recurrent events

According to an analysis by the Uptime Institute, using 4,500 events over a 15 year period, technician error accounts for 33% of downtime in data centers. Ensuring that technicians have accurate information prior to, during, and after a maintenance activity is critical to minimizing technician error.

> View real-time electrical distribution system data for the complete maintenance cycle (prior, during and after)

Decrease the number of unplanned outages

> Quickly receive critical power system alarms

> View the critical alarm history sequenced by time to create an action plan to resolve the issues

Decrease the duration of unplanned outages

Improve the effectiveness of maintenance activities

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> Quantify and track the cost of power losses (transformers and UPSs) in the power distribution system

> Track power usage effectiveness in real-time and over time

Manage the dynamic relationship between branch circuits, rack, and customers so that it is possible to:

> Quickly and accurately calculate rack and customer energy, peak power, and peak current from raw branch circuit data

> Automatically export billing determinants to a billing system

Improve power distribution efficiency

Facilitate pay-per-use energy billing

Data center power distribution infrastructure is expensive and maximizing the use of this equipment, without compromising data center reliability, is critical for minimizing CAPEX. The right information allows facility operations to:

> Safely maximize the loading of power equipment without compromising reliability

> Rebalance phase loading to ensure that the full capacity of the circuit is used

> Identify and correct harmonic currents that add to key equipment loading

Optimize power loading of key equipment

StruxureWare Power Monitoring Expert - Data Center Edition saves you money by helping your team quickly identify problem areas

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