Fujitsu and Daxten have being named finalists in the DCD EMEA Awards 2014. Fujitsu’s Project Empower utilised Packet Power’s wireless power and environmental monitoring solution and was recognised in two separate categories: Innovation in the Mega-Data Center and Innovation in IT Optimisation. The winners will be announced on the 11th of December 2014 in London.

Under Project Empower, Fujitsu was seeking to implement a new power charging model for their customer base while also helping improve their operational efficiency and drive power usage improvement on their IT equipment. They needed a monitoring system that could meet the following criteria:

• Monitor power usage at various metering levels including but not limited to: PDU, rack, strip, outlet, device
• Capture kW, Amperage, power factor and kWh at high accuracy
• Minimise upfront deployment costs and the need for additional IT resources and architectural designs
• Deploy easily both for all new installations and retrofit of existing customers

Daxten and Fujitsu have a long standing relationship, and Daxten introduced Packet Power’s technology to Fujitsu. After conducting a successful proof of concept, Fujitsu selected Packet Power for the following reasons:

• Very low upfront costs
  • 30.3% less expensive than alternatives in year 1 alone
  • No need to cable each meter
  • No need for servers or FTE to support
  • Start quickly on cloud based EMX portal with easy migration to local DCIM in the future
• Ease of deployment and management
• Environmental monitoring and power monitoring provided using a common radio network
• Flexible design allowing the ability to monitor the environment at various levels and to optimise cooling to meet metered rack requirements
• Supports both new build and retrofit customers equally well

The Packet Power solution has far exceeded Fujitsu’s expectations yielding significant savings of as much as 30.3% in year 1 and 74.4% each year thereafter compared to a traditional wired smart power strips.  Most importantly, Fujitsu was able to use the information provided by the Packet Power system to implement a new charging model based on real world usage and optimise their IT efficiency.