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News Release from: Dranetz-BMI | Subject: Power monitoring equipment
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2006
Project could cut operating costs for
data centres
Dranetz-BMI has teamed with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Silicon Valley giants in a project to demonstrate technologies that could reduce the operating costs of data centers.
Dranetz-BMI, a pioneer in power quality, demand, and energy monitoring, has teamed with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Silicon Valley giants in a project financed by the California Energy Commission to demonstrate technologies that could potentially reduce the operating costs of data centers by billions of dollars a year Sun Microsystems in Newark, California is hosting a functioning power system to demonstrate DC power systems for data centers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dranetz-BMI provided all of the power monitoring equipment to measure the efficiency of AC (Alternating Current) and DC (Direct Current) levels for the innovative project.
Data centers - the backbone of the Information Age - provide computing and data storage for websites and databases in support of virtually every larger-sized private corporation and institution.
However, these centers can use 100 times more electricity than an individual office building on a square foot basis - putting a strain on the electricity grid, especially in the summer months.
The onus of the project is to eliminate the significant losses in electric power seen as a result of the multiple conversion steps implemented at today 's data centers.
By distributing DC instead of AC throughout the data center, electrical power losses and the parts needed for conversion are reduced, ultimately increasing efficiency and reliability.
In addition, DC distribution reduces facility cooling needs, cuts floorspace demand, and increases reliability.
Dranetz-BMI provided its Signature System power quality, demand and energy monitoring system to gather AC and DC project data.
The Signature System captures all power data including critical events typically missed by other systems, and automatically converts the data into valuable information for power systems management.
Instead of proprietary software that must be installed and updated on a PC, users need only a standard Web browser to access, view, and analyze data.
By using the web browser feature the Signature System installed at the demonstration site is available on the Internet for the use of all project participants.
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