Raritan Introduces Intelligent Inline-Meter Rack PDUs

Raritan has added 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 centres that want to 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 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 strip-level metering. 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 (kVA), active power (Watts), and kilowatts per hour (kwh) energy consumption. It also provides room temperature and humidity information through optional plug-in sensors.

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To make it easy for data centre 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 analysing power usage and tracking trends.