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White Paper
See the Power: Achieve Plug Load Visibility with
Enterprise Energy Management
Enterprise Energy Management
Introduction
Building management systems have conducted most enterprise energy management over the past several
decades. But just as technological advances have made the physical office worker more virtual, physical
boundaries such as buildings and campus locations are giving way to borderless IT networks and a broader
community of business devices. This can be a challenge for facilities departments tasked with managing and
reduci
ng the rising costs and demand for energy across the enterprise. After all, you can’t improve what you can’t
measure.
Power per square foot or power per user calculations have set the standard for determining how much energy a
building’s IT equipment consumes. But what if you could see actual energy consumption, utilization, cost, and
building’s IT equipment consumes. But what if you could see actual energy consumption, utilization, cost, and
carbon emissions for every device that is plugged into your network? New solutions for enterprise energy
management are making this possible and delivering dramatic cost savings: up to 35 percent in some cases.
As energy management becomes IPbased, you gain a detailed view of energy consumption for all your network-
connected IT devices, even HVAC, lighting, video, and access control systems. An enterprise energy management
solution can benefit facilities by providing detailed visibility into plug load, along with automated power
management for data centers, campuses, or distributed office environments, extending into facilities. Organizations
can use the solution to automatically manage and reduce power consumption for these devices and systems,
saving time and money while helping meet sustainability requirements.
How Does It Work?
For years, solutions to manage energy consumption and utilization at the IT device level have been cost
prohibitive, inadequate, and difficult to implement. Today this is changing for the better. With technology available
now, enterprises can transition their energy management approach from “always on” to “available when needed”
now, enterprises can transition their energy management approach from “always on” to “available when needed”
without hurting employee or business productivity or service-level agreements (SLAs). The results of this shift
include significant cost savings, reductions in carbon emissions, and increased visibility into energy use that can
aid capacity planning, policy decisions, and more.
New enterprise energy management solutions are providing a consolidated energy use dashboard for every
network-connected device in the enterprise. This delivers unprecedented visibility into the energy use of every
device, system, and facilities asset connected to the network. It also gives organizations the ability to actively
monitor and manage power for cost savings, without slowing productivity.
Cisco Energy Management software reduces energy costs by seeing, measuring, and managing energy use of all
network-connected devices and systems, with no software agents or hardware meters required. Cisco
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Energy
Management acts as a virtual smart meter, providing a global view of energy use for a wide range of devices,
including desktops and laptops, wireless access points, voice over IP phones, servers, network routers, switches,
and more.