Raritan intros intelligent inline-meter rack PDUs

GURGAON, INDIA: Raritan introduced a new family of smart inline power meters to its intelligent rack power distribution and energy management portfolio. The new Dominion PX-3000 Series is targeted at data centers that want to easily add power, energy, and rack environment data collection capabilities to stand-alone IT equipment or racks containing basic rack power distribution units (PDUs).

The four new Dominion PX-3000 inline power meters, as well as all of Raritan's intelligent rack PDUs, come with built-in monitoring, security and networking capabilities. The PX-3000 inline power meters are designed to be used in conjunction with dumb rack PDUs to provide comprehensive strip-level metering and easily deployed environmental monitoring. The PX-3000 Series also is intended to power stand-alone equipment with dedicated circuits, such as large network switches, storage arrays, and mainframe computers.

The Dominion PX-3000 gathers extensive power information, including data on voltage, current, power factor, apparent power, active power, and kilowatts per hour energy consumption. It also provides room temperature and humidity information through optional plug-in sensors. To make it easy for data center operators to view power activity, real-time information can be seen with a local display at the rack and from a remote graphical user interface (GUI) via a web browser. The PX-3000 Series is also fully compatible with Raritan's Power IQ energy management software for analyzing power usage and tracking trends.

"The Dominion PX-3000 power meters are ideal where dumb rack power strips have been used in the past, and now IT and facilities managers need to collect accurate power data to manage data centers for optimal efficiency and uptime," said Naim Malik, senior product manager, Raritan.

"Our inline power meters also provide industry-leading power measurement accuracy of +/- 1%. A large European customer ordered our solution on the basis of this accuracy, so that they can bill-back energy costs to internal clients," he added.