Data centers need more than just a few installed power meters, they need a comprehensive energy and power management system that provides proactive warning before you overload a PDU circuit, detailed energy usage data, and exact information for troubleshooting power quality events. For single-building monitoring solutions from the utility coupling to the computer room floor, to multi-site enterprise energy management solutions, Schneider Electric’s PowerLogic energy and power management system delivers the information needed to reduce energy-related costs and increase uptime.

Our rule here is that if it has critical power going through it, we want to not only monitor the position of the circuit breaker, but we want to monitor the power that goes through it as well. We use that for both capacity measurement and prediction as well as to determine what the status of the system is at any given time. Square D has provided us with a rather well developed, integrated monitoring software system that uses both aspects, both the position and the analog metering to display the status and the capacity of all equipment that is involved in critical power delivery.

Charlie Linkhart, Chief Engineer
Raging Wire Enterprises
Sacramento, CA