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Lower Real Estate Energy Costs by Submetering Electricity
Packet Power Team: Mar 6, 2024 7:00:00 AM
Retrofitting a multi-tenant building (or collection of buildings) with a wireless circuit monitoring system can pay for itself in less than a year. The ROI improves even more if your energy provider uses flex pricing and charges more for power...
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Data Center Challenges and Branch Circuit Power Monitoring
Packet Power Team: Feb 15, 2024 7:47:33 AM
The latest survey of data center operators shows the biggest challenges the industry is facing. The Uptime Institute aggregated answers from hundreds of digital infrastructure managers worldwide. Here are the things they say are top of mind:
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Largest Wireless DC Power Monitoring Deployment in the World
Packet Power Team: Jan 24, 2024 10:14:48 AM
In late 2019, as the global Covid pandemic was about to explode, a Fortune 100 telecommunications company engaged Packet Power to solve a critical problem: provide real-time visibility into their Direct Current (DC) power distribution architecture...
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Preparing for Data Center Liquid Cooling Upgrades
Packet Power Team: Jan 8, 2024 8:24:38 AM
Although liquid cooling is already widely used in many data centers, further expansion of the practice is coming fast. A market study in Asia predicts 31% growth in the liquid cooling market through 2027. This boom echoes the literal buzz being...
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Current Transducers: Split Core, Solid Core, and Why You Should Care
Packet Power Team: Dec 21, 2023 9:00:00 AM
Current Transducers are a key component of every power monitoring system. If you have ever wondered why they are used or how they work, here's a quick review of alternating current transducer basics.
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Smart Monitoring Solutions for Smart Manufacturing
Packet Power Team: Oct 26, 2023 9:00:00 AM
In manufacturing, efficiency is the name of the game. Factory operators seeking to maximize production uptime and reduce costs need precise data (both real-time and aggregated) to optimize operations. If you are going to make progress with...
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AI Increasing Demand on Energy Efficient Data Centers
Packet Power Team: Oct 12, 2023 7:00:00 AM
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries and at a cost for data centers: a substantial increase in energy consumption. AI relies on deep learning and neural networks, demanding massive computational resources. To meet these...
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Energy Monitoring Systems & Data Center Compatibility
Packet Power Team: Sep 28, 2023 9:30:00 AM
As the demands on data centers continue to grow, space is at a premium in existing facilities. In an attempt to maximize their computing per square foot and minimize their costs, many operators are installing power monitoring systems so they can...
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Improving PUE in Data Centres for Energy Savings
Packet Power Team: Sep 6, 2023 2:36:48 PM
Facing soaring energy prices, data centre operators are doing everything they can to become more efficient. End-user demand continues to surge and improving power usage effectiveness (PUE)–which is increasingly harder to achieve–is required as part...
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