5 Benefits of outlet-metered PDUs

Intelligent PDUs often have metering features integrated besides their switching capacities. Ideally, they are outlet-metered: This means, they measure electrical quantities not only on the level of the device – unit-metered -, but also individually on the level of each port – outlet-metered. Metered quantities can comprise up to nine different electrical dimensions (energy, current, power factor, phase angle, frequency, voltage and active/apparent/reactive power).

Your benefits

1. Reduce costs

   With switched and outlet-metered PDUs, you can save service costs by remote device resets (switching off and on again).

2. Enhance energy efficiency

   Because of the outlet-metered function you can monitor the energy usage with ±1 percent billing grade accuracy of every connected device. This means AV and IT admins can quickly see where energy is being used and quickly identify power eaters. In datacenters it also simplifies load balancing and reveal spare power capacities.

3. Increase uptime

   Because of the detailed measurements of electrical quantities and in particular fault currents, you can identify problems in your installation before it comes to failures. This proactive monitoring approach increases your uptime. Or in other words: costs for downtimes are reduced effectively.

4. Protect the installation

   Because of the integrated overvoltage protection your IT environment will be protected against voltage damages.

5. Maximize rack space

   Intelligent PDUs can also be mounted vertically thanks to different brackets and holders. This means your rack space is used in an optimized way. Moreover horizontal PDUs have up to 12 outputs and ensure the best rack ports ratio

Did you know?

These are the typical power consumptions of appliances in standby mode

* Assumes an average standby time of 22 hours per day.