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.

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.

As soon as you start to add multiple devices to your server rack, power management can become an issue. The use of Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with some form of metering or intelligent IP connection can help to overcome this and provide a pathway for the future scale-up of your IT deployment.

For many organisations, there is no right time to refurbish their server room or datacentre environments. In use 24/7 means that any refresh whether of a critical system or the entire facility is going to result in a period of downtime. However, most facilities are designed with a set working lifetime of 10-15 years and this links directly back to the critical systems in operation. Whilst they may be well maintained and regularly tested, the fact is that around years 8-10 critical power and cooling systems are ready for an upgrade or replacement.

The datacentre industry is under immense pressure to reduce its energy usage and achieve a smaller carbon footprint. One of the biggest users of non-compute energy are the cooling solutions used within hyperscale down to medium and small-sized datacentres.

Some of the metered PDUs, 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.

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).

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.

We have over 30 years of experience working within data centre and server room environments. Our knowledge and experience means that we know how to design, install and maintain the right cooling, energy management, power and monitoring solutions for any critical IT environment.

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