Power Strips

Increasing power costs and the pressure to reduce carbon emissions is forcing the IT industry to reassess its approach to power management.

Whilst traditional power distribution units (PDU) provide a reliable and cost effective solution for a safe, secure and reliable connection of power within a data centre, most offer little scope to proactively monitor power usage in an intelligent manner.

LEADING EDGE POWER STRIPS

2bm offers a range of bespoke solutions to suit any application. Designated as Class 2 measuring devices, our power strips poll for information up to 4000 times each second, ensuring reliability and levels of accuracy unrivalled in the industry.

No off the shelf solutions

At 2bm we do not believe in 'off the shelf solutions'. Armed with an understanding of your specific requirements we can develop a solution unique to suit

  • Choice of finishes (black, gray, brushed steel)
  • 2-20+ socket outlets
  • Range of international and industrial plugs/socket outlets
  • RCD/MCB protected
  • Individually fused socket outlets
  • Horizontal/Vertical mountable (1U/2U/3U)
  • Kwh and current metering options
  • Rated up to 32A
  • Transient/surge and RFI protected

Integration of single powered devices
Our 'in-line' units allow you to monitor single powered devices such as SANs or larger SUN/IBM servers. Single of 3-phase units are available.

Retro-fit solutions
Monitoring of 'dumb' power strips is also made possible by our 'in-line' units by connecting in-line with existing power strip commando plug and the under floor commando sockets.

INNOVATIVE CABLING APPROACH

Each 2bm power strip has two RJ45 sockets which facilitates a 'daisy chain' of up to 32 PDUs (or 16 racks with A and B feed) into one SNMP trap (RS485 cabling protocol).

Readings are taken from each PDU in turn and fed down the line to the SNMP trap which is linked to the Sensorium software.

If intelligent power strips are not used, our bespoke ‘in-line’ unit can be fitted and incorporated as part of the 'chain' to ensure all information is captured.

The benefits of this approach are threefold. Firstly the cabling process is easy and cheaper to install and manage. Secondly the RS485 protocol is more robust. And finally it only requires one IP address for up to 16 racks as opposed to one per PDU, thus saving on network ports.