FAQs
 


 
Potentia: Do you know the status of your circuits?

Data Center staff is challenged with not only tracking how much power is being used by each device or circuit but where those loads will switch to following a failure somewhere within the electrical infrastructure.

Circuit failures can be costly and can be caused by technicians simply adding new equipment at a Data Center; the extra equipment pushing distribution circuit breakers over their limits or even causing a cascade failure. Increasingly, another issue for Facilities Managers is under-utilization. Often power infrastructure is being under-utilized, resulting in extra costs across the data center.

Without being certain of where and how much spare capacity there really is, and how circuits will be impacted by component failures, the facilities staff cannot safely and efficiently utilize the Data Center power.

The Potentia tool from ICS brings the following capabilities to power management:

Identify circuit overloads and underutilization
Simulate failures at any level (any combination of Circuit, Panel or PDU failures)
Show status of individual devices after failures
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