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Inline Energy Meters

Inline energy meters make use of the network management features from an intelligent PDU and use ‘plug and play’ or hardware connections. The single and three phase energy meters can provide a range of power related information including volts, amps, kVA, kW, kWh and power factor and provide billing grade level accuracy within +/- 1% for colocation datacentre racks and server clients.

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Inline Energy Meter Installation

Inline energy meters can generally be added to existing installations quickly whether they have a PDU already in place or not. They can be useful additions when upgrading any server room or datacentre and provide both real-time and network metering and monitoring to assist load balancing, capacity planning and avoid overload conditions. Up to 6 external sensors can be added to each inline energy meter for temperature and environment monitoring.

For more information on our range of inline energy meters please contact our projects team.

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Related FAQs

  • Can an intelligent PDU provide smart socket metering and control?

    With intelligent PDUs each individual socket is remotely monitored for power and energy usage and can be remotely controlled i.e. powered down or rebooted to provide total control of the connected load(s).

  • Can you use a PDU for environment monitoring?

    Some of the metered, smart and intelligent PDUs we supply can be installed with additional plug-in sensors for temperature and humidity. The PDUs are connected to the local IP network and can report monitoring readings taken by the sensors.

  • Do you supply in-line energy meters?

    As well as power distribution units we have specific in-line energy meters that can be installed between power sources and their connected loads. The in-line meters come with flying leads, plugs and sockets and provide a range of power related information including kVA, kW, power factor, voltage, frequency and kWh of energy usage.