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 Smart-Watt
makes it simple to accurately measures the
energy consumption of any electric circuit. Simply plug the male
plug into the power source, then connect the equipment to
the female receptacles and your done. Smart-Watt keeps a
cumulative total of the energy consumed in 0.1 watt-hour increments and retains
that reading even in the event of a power failure. Smart-Watt conforms to ANSI
Standards for watt-hour meters so you are assured of the same high
accuracy standards that public utilities require for their meters.
To make reading the meter easy each Smart-Watt is equipped with a unique
internal ID and network connection for automated reading. You can
daisy-chain multiple Smart-Watt units together and connect them directly
to a PC COM port for automated reading or use our
Smart-Net Gateway that
provides an IP interface to read a group of Smart-Watt units across your
local area network or remotely over the internet.
Smart-Watt also provides the ability to
detect the current load on the connected circuit. You can query a
Smart-Watt in real-time across your network to see the current load in
watts. This can be useful information to make sure
you aren't approaching the limits of the circuit and prevent an
unintended trip of the circuit breaker.
Smart-Watt's are available for both 120
or 208-240 volt circuits. The 120 volt units are available in 15,
20 or 30
amp models with NEMA plugs and receptacles. The 208-240 volt units are available in
a 15, 20 or 30 amp models with NEMA plugs and receptacles or 10
and 16 amp models with IEC 320 plugs and receptacles. You can also
order Smart-Watts without plugs, receptacles or cords and hardwire
them into a circuit.
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If linking your Smart-Watts together in
a wired network isn't practical we have another deployment option.
Each Smart-Watt can be equipped with a stainless steel button that
allows the meter reading to be obtained using a Palm Pilot equipped with
a special probe. A momentary contact on the stainless steel button
with the probe downloads the current meter reading into the Palm Pilot. Once
you have obtained each reading the data can be uploaded into a PC for
analysis or billing purposes. You can also link multiple Smart-Watts
together and obtain multiple readings by touching a single button.
This provides additional flexibility and a migration path for
deployment. You can first deploy individual units and read them
periodically with a Palm Pilot. Once you have several units
deployed in a area you can link them together and automate the readings by
connecting them to the COM port of a PC or an IP Gateway.
Information
about Smart-Watt networking features
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Smart-Watt Features
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High
Resolution Watt-hour
Metering |
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Easily meter the power
consumption on individual circuits. Measure the power
consumption of any device(s) plugged into Smart-Watt. Either
120VAC
or 208-240VAC models available. |
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Network Monitoring |
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Smart-Watt is managed through
software running over a network, so yearly, monthly, daily or
hourly power consumption reports are easily generated and
monitored. |
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Smart-Watt Daisy Chaining |
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An unlimited number of Smart-Watt
meters can be connected on the network, so there is no need to
run a separate IP drop for each meter. Simply connect one
Smart-Watt to the next. |
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Auto-Configuring Network Management |
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Smart-Watt meters can be easily
added and removed from the network without any programming
because the software automatically detects and configures newly
discovered devices. |
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Smart-Net Network Gateway |
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You can manage an entire network of
Smart-Watt's from a single IP address by utilizing our Smart-Net
Gateway. This provides a simple interface to work with
Smart-Watt's from across your local area network or to remote
locations from across the Internet. |
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Alerts |
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Automatic email alerts can be sent
out based on a multitude of conditions. For example an alert may
be sent when when power
consumption approaches maximum conditions so that a tripped
circuit breaker can be avoided. |
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Battery
backup |
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The power consumption data is
preserved by battery backup on each Smart-Watt device and thus
you can be assured that the information will be accurate even
during power loss. |
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Soaring energy costs together with
the increased power consumption of high density servers is straining
data centers. In extreme cases a data center can run out of power
capacity before they run out of space.
Data Center
Market
Report PDF 135KB
Most data centers charge their customers
based on the amount of rack space needed for their computing
equipment. The challenge is some customers fill the racks to
capacity with
high density equipment, with high rates of utilization, and consume significant electricity.
Others have few pieces of equipment which sit idle much of the time.
This can cause extreme variations in the amount of energy used by each
data center
customer. The data center may make a healthy profit on customers with
low energy usage but they make far less and can even lose money on
customers with high energy usage.
The solution is to meter each customers
energy usage and bill them accordingly. Smart-Watt provides an
easy, accurate, and economical way to accomplish this.
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Smart-Watt Models |
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120 Volts |
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Plug & Recp. |
Amps |
Price |
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None |
Hardwire Model |
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5-15 |
15 |
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5-20 |
20 |
call |
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L5-15 |
15 |
call |
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L5-20 |
20 |
call |
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L5-30 |
30 |
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208 - 240 Volts |
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Plug & Recp. |
Amps |
Price |
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None |
Hardwire Model |
call |
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L6-15 |
15 |
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L6-20 |
20 |
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L6-30 |
30 |
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C13/C14 |
10 |
call |
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Amp Meters measure the rate
of flow on an electric circuit at a given moment in time. Amp
Meters function much like the Speedometer in your car which measures the
speed at a given moment.
Power is measured in watts
which is the product of amps times voltage. Watt-hour Meters
continuously monitor the voltage and amperage of a circuit to calculate the true electric usage over time in watt-hours.
Watt-hour Meters function much like the Odometer in your car which
measures the cumulative mileage traveled.
Although both provide useful
information only a Watt-hour Meter can accurately measure cumulative
electric usage. For cost allocation, energy billing, or
accurate load profiling our High Resolution Watt-hour Meters are the
perfect solution. |
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