Rising electricity prices are on everyone's lips. Especially large companies need an accurate measurement of electricity consumption for cost accounting.

Through installation of new Server systems / IT equipment in Server racks, many administrators do not know whether the current distribution in the rack is still sufficient.

A purchase of new TCP / IP based power distribution units for measuring power at the Server level is in view of many of tight budgets not always possible, especially as the existing PDU `s often carry out their duties over the years without complaint.

With the current trend of IT consolidation through Server Virtualization, many existing Server cabinets / Server racks remain empty in many companies, so that unused PDU `s still found in sufficient numbers.

AKCP`s Power Monitor Sensor allows in combination with the securityProbe remote monitoring devices an Local and Network-based power measuring in Server rack.

At the same time critical power loads in the server rack could be non-stop remotely monitored. The appropriate security personnel can be pro-actively notified through the sophisticated notification wizard of the securityProbe alarm server.

At the same time detailed reports on the power (active power, reactive power, power form factor) can be generated.

Through the purchase of additional power monitor sensors, the monitoring of power consumption in data center and server room could be easily expanded. By the installation of SNMP-enabled sensors, such as Temperature sensor, airFlow sensor or water detector you could control important physical parameters in Data center / Server room.

Upon request, the securityProbe monitoring device including the connected environmental monitoring sensors, could be integrated into existing network monitoring systems. The field-proven open-source Nagios monitoring system is already pre-installed on securityProbe remote monitoring devices. It could be easily activated by a simple mouse-click. No addtional investments in Nagios hardware such as a Nagios Server system.

Here's a typical application scenario of IP-based power monitoring with securityProbe-5E Alarm Server and Power Monitor Sensor.

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