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Los Alamos National Labs (Department of the Energy) - Data Center Efficiency & Environmental Monitoring
Los Alamos National Laboratory located in Los Alamos, New Mexico underwent a large scale enterprise monitoring project that measured data center energy efficiency and the environment. Power metering sensors were installed on substations, distribution switchboards, and rotary uninterruptible power supplies that give line to line and line to neutral voltage, current, percent load, power factor, and power on each phase of the data center’s three phase system. This data collected from these metering devices will allow Facility Managers to access daily reports on total facility power usage, IT power consumption, and total mechanical power consumption. Phase II of the project included the installation of 184 wireless sensors that gave live measurements of temperature, humidity, and air flow readings. All of the above mentioned sensors were interfaced into a 3D graphical facility enterprise system called Environet. Learn more....
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 - Real-time Energy Optimization and Best Practices in a Mission-Critical Data Center
As one of the world's largest internet commerce platforms, eBay demands extreme data center reliability; any downtime would impact transactions worth more than $2,000 a second. Thus it's global data center team must excel simultaneously in delivering uptime and flexibility, while keeping costs down - a truly complex challenge, requiring constant innovation to be successful. Since its inception, eBay amassed a portfolio of 12 data center sites to keep up with its constantly-increasing compute load. Unsurprisingly, eBay's data center operating costs are also increasing every year as business growth continues. Learn more....
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University of Wyoming – Cellwatch Battery Monitoring System
The University of Wyoming underwent construction of the university’s new Information Technology Center in December of 2008. The ITC is a state of the art data center that is responsible for supporting nearly 14,000 students and staff by hosting the university’s production computing systems that provide critical IT services to operate the University. It was imperative for the University to provide secure 24x7 access to essential IT and data services; therefore, requiring that they install a UPS battery monitoring system that would monitor the 160 UPS batteries daily. Learn More…..
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ipHouse Uses Packet Power Solution to Measure Electrical Usage
ipHouse keeps a very close eye on the amount of energy being consumed by its customers. As information and internet technologies evolve, their voracious appetite for electrical power to fuel servers and support infrastructure is putting a strain on data centers. For ipHouse – a data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota serving hundreds of customers – and other data centers like it around the world, effectively monitoring and managing power consumption has become increasingly important. These tasks are much easier now that ipHouse is using Packet Power technology to gather detailed energy consumption data. The Packet Power solution continuously monitors the electricity usage of each ipHouse customer, then transmits that data for analysis and billing purposes. Armed with information, ipHouse is reducing costs, increasing revenue and more effectively managing the energy capacity of its data center operations. Learn more…
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