Branch Circuit Monitoring allows accurate monitoring and reporting of power consumption to racks and sub-circuits in Data Centres and may be retrofitted to live systems.
Data Centre managers are increasing driven to monitor energy use due to rising energy costs and customers that increasingly demand to be billed only for the energy they use. Branch Circuit Monitoring is installed on each of the branch circuits or a selection of the branch circuits at the main power distribution units to enable per customer/department billing.
Key Benefits:
- Can be fitted to live distribution boards
- Cheaper and easier to deploy than at the rack systems
- Accurate power measurement covering all circuits
- Enables accurate sub-billing
- Helps improve power distribution capacity planning
Installation and metering is centralised reducing cabling and repair costs compared to rack PDU metering. AIT specifies systems that include powerful software which accurately record power utilisation (A, kW, kWh) and power factors as well as phase imbalance. AIT's use its expertise to ensure software will integrate with existing systems and that custom reports are created as needed to monitor power used, billing by customer or division and to highlight significant power use changes.
Cost Comparison:
Assuming 36 circuits - to monitor18 server racks, each with dual feed power supply for resilience. Includes software with web interface to monitor A, kW, kWh over time. Fitting can be done by on-site personnel or as a service by AIT. Indicative pricing:
- Inline Monitoring £10k
- Branch Circuit Monitoring £2.5k
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AIT provides a complete Branch Circuit Monitoring solution including design, project management, installation, data mining and customised reporting, support and maintenance. AIT can specify and install Branch Circuit Monitoring (BCM) as a retrofit for existing power distribution systems.
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