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Packet Power Environmental Monitoring Solutions

Battery or AC power? One reading per row or 12 readings per rack? No problem. Packet Power’s range of wireless environmental monitors combines industry-leading flexibility with exceptionally low costs. Track temperature, relative humidity and differential pressure where needed. And installation is fast and easy.

Industry-leading Wireless Monitoring

Packet Power make the data center industry’s most widely used wireless power and environmental monitoring system. If you run a critical facility Packet Power products are simple to install, configure and manage, making it easier and less expensive for you to get the information you need to lower costs, avoid outages and improve operational effectiveness.

Operations Management

Utilize monitoring data to increase availability, minimize unused power and spot hot spots before they become a problem.

Energy Cost Allocation

Now that the cost to power a server over its useful life often exceeds its purchase cost, allocating operating costs is more important than ever.

Colo Companies

For companies that run data centers as their primary business, energy usage information powers decisions in many areas.

Cooling Optimization

In many facilities, gathering the data needed to more efficiently remove heat is the key to saving the most energy.

Data Center Retrofits

Increasing power densities can create both power and cooling challenges in existing data centers. Adding monitoring provides the insight needed to prevent issues and extend the life of the facility.

Measure PUE

Love it or hate it, PUE is one of the data center industry’s key performance metrics. Analyzing your power usage effectiveness doesn’t have to be hard.

True plug and play power monitoring

Smart Power Cable

Smart Power Cables revolutionize branch circuit monitoring. Other solutions can be costly to implement, complex to install and difficult to scale. Smart Power Cables avoid these issues by incorporating metering in a power cord and accessing the energy usage data via a wireless network. Since the cables can be used with any device with a plug, there’s no need to uninstall existing equipment, and you can have one monitoring system that works across all your devices.

Smart Power Cables support the full range of IEC, NEMA, specialized and regional connectors. There are more than 50 standard models, and custom cables can be made on request.

S Cable – Single-phase circuits from 10A to 32A
R Cable – Single and three-phase circuits from 16A to 100A

Features

Captures information on voltage (V), current (A), power (W), power factor, energy (Wh), frequency (Hz) and temperature
Maintains key data during power disruptions
10 to 100 amp capacity, single- and three-phase versions, 100 to 480V
Local LED display
Supports all IEC, NEMA, regional and specialized plug and connector formats
Proven with thousands of cables in use worldwide
Failsafe design will not disrupt the flow of power

Benefits

Accurately captures energy information in real-time
Use with any BMS or DCIM application that supports standard SNMP orModbus protocols
Monitors anything with a plug including SANs, mainframes and switches
Secure, proven wireless network designed for data centers
Simple ‘‘plug and play’’ installation means no electricians required
Highly cost-effective
Self-forming, self-optimizing network minimizes IT resource requirements

Temperature Monitoring that Adapts to Your Needs

Environmental Monitoring Flexibility

Battery or AC power? One reading per row or 12 readings per rack? No problem. Packet Power’s range of wireless environmental monitors combines industry-leading flexibility with exceptionally low costs. Track temperature, relative humidity and differential pressure where needed. And installation is fast and easy.

Key Features:

Monitors temperature, humidity and differential pressure
Uses AC or battery power
Measure up to 12 temperature points per monitor
Utilizes Packet Power’s proven wireless mesh network
Each monitor covers 1 to 6 cabinets based on your needs
Use with EMX Energy Portal to see realtime 3D facility heat maps
Scales to thousands of monitoring points per facility
Easy integration with third party BMS and DCIM systems
Low cost per monitoring point
Leak detector probe senses the presence of water

Environmental Monitor Models

E300
- 1 temperature point
- No external probe ports
- Dew point and relative humidity included
- Battery powered
E302
- Up to 3 temperature points
- Two external probe ports
- Dew point and relative humidity included
- Battery powered
E306
- Up to 6 temperature points
- Six external probe ports
- Dew point and relative humidity optional
- Differential pressure optional
- Local display
- AC powered (or PoE splitter)
E312
- Up to 12 temperature points
- Twelve external probe ports
- Dew point and relative humidity optional
- Battery powered (or AC)
Individual Temperature Probes
- Buy exactly what you need
- 1 to 15 meter lengths
- Any quantity
- Use with E302, E306 or E312
Leak Detector Probe
- Sensing height can be adjusted to as low as 1/32 of an inch (1mm)
- 2 to 15 meter lengths
- Any quantity
- Use with E302, E306 or E312

Branch Circuit Monitoring

Whether you want to allocate energy costs, avoid unplanned outages or balance loads across phases, our wireless panel monitoring solutions give you the flexibility you need to measure what matters.

Packet Power’s wireless branch circuit monitors install in a fraction of the time versus other systems by eliminating communication wiring, configuration and providing fully pre-configured wiring harnesses. You’ll be online receiving useful monitoring information immediately after installation.

A significant part of the branch circuit monitoring installation involves defining the circuit mix on a particular panel and making that information usable in your monitoring application.

Our panel editor makes it easy to specify the amperage and number of poles per circuit. If you have panels with similar circuit maps, you can easily apply panel definitions from one panel to another. And if you need to access data via SNMP or Modbus, we make that easy too.

Features

Power versions measure V, A, VA, W, PF, Wh, THDi, THDv, Hz
Works with PDUs, RPPs or panelboards from any vendor
Monitors 100 to 480V circuits
Can be wall-mounted, directly attached or installed under the floor
Includes pre-wired, pre-configured split-core CTs in a flexible wire harness
Local LED displays V, A and W on main input circuit and A on branch circuits

Benefits

Cost effective
No communications cables or configuration
Simple, non-technical installation
Use anywhere including branch circuits, RPPs, panelboards and PDUs
Compatible with any existing hardware and data is accessible via SNMP or Modbus
Secure purpose-built wireless protocol proven in data centers worldwide

Benefits

Robust: Custom-developed a wireless networking protocol specifically to meet the demands of data centers. By keeping transmissions short, tuning the network only for monitoring, optimizing network routing with each transmission, automatically adjusting to changes on the fly, and utilizing radio frequencies best suited to difficult radio environments.

Simple: Wireless monitoring units install quickly and automatically create a stable wireless mesh network. As monitoring units are added and removed over time, the network immediately adapts. No other solution installs faster and is easier to manage. EMX monitoring application will have you realizing value from your data before the consultants from other DCIM vendors can hold their installation planning meetings.

Scalable: Growing from 50 to 1,500 monitoring points? No problem, the Packet Power network is designed to make it easy to grow over time. There is no need to buy monitoring equipment before you really need it. As the size of your monitoring network grows, simply add another Ethernet Gateway and the network will automatically rebalance traffic flow. Firmware upgrades can be done on even the largest networks via the wireless network without disruption to normal operations.
Secure: Packet Power separates your monitoring network from your core data networks. It provides a wireless environment that is not built on a standard protocol, uses atypical radio frequencies, is limited in scope solely to monitoring, and can’t be used as an intrusion point to your wired networks. Add 128bit AES encryption and the option to radio isolate different portions of the wireless network from each other, and you have the most secure monitoring solution available.
Open: Our monitoring devices can be used with any DCIM or BMS application that supports Modbus or SNMP. Or use our EMX software to gather data from both our and other vendors monitoring units. We want to make it easy to add intelligence to your existing infrastructure.

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