Packet Power Blog

Power Factor: The difference between promise and reality

You may be getting less power throughout your facility than you think, thanks to something known as power factor. Power factor affects power management, especially if you’re running very high power equipment such as an uninterruptible power supply... Read More

How to Pinpoint Hot Spots in Your Data Center

Hot spots in a data center must be closely monitored: let the warmest areas in your facility get too warm and you risk degraded performance, outages, and potential equipment damage. Yet they can also drive how much you spend to cool your entire data... Read More

Data Center Retrofitting: The Role of Monitoring

Data centers must meet constantly evolving needs. Trends such as increasing power density, cloud computing, edge computing, and data analytics ultimately place differing demands on the data center. This often requires that improvements be made to... Read More

[VIDEO] Convert basic PDUs into Smart PDUs in minutes

Do you have basic power strips that you wish were metered? Would you be interested in a way of upgrading your existing power strips that doesn’t require running additional wires or removing your existing equipment? Packet Power’s Smart Power Cables... Read More

We Recommend: Top 10 Reasons to Monitor Busway Tap Boxes

Energy usage data helps ensure your critical facility runs smoothly. DCIM provider, Sunbird, recently published an ebook that does a nice job of outlining the benefits of using power monitoring on overhead busways. Read More

Having trouble getting a smart PDU? Packet Power has a solution.

If long lead times on intelligent rack PDUs are putting your deployment schedule at risk, Packet Power can help. Our Smart Power Cables are the easiest way to add power metering to any device with a plug. Combine a smart power cable with an easy to... Read More

Packet Power Wireless Network Connector adds flow meter support

Do you have a smart device that you can't get information from because it is not connected to a network? The Packet Power Wireless Network Connector (WNC) can link it to our wireless mesh network --- and the WNC can now work its wireless magic on... Read More

Holiday greetings from Packet Power

2020 has been an unforgettable year and we are particularly grateful for the ongoing support of our customers, partners, friends and family in these challenging times. May 2021 bring peace and prosperity to you and your loved ones. Read More

Even fewer stranded smart devices with Wireless Network Connector

Packet Power's Wireless Network Connector provides an easy way to make supported metered devices not connected to a network work over Packet Power's wireless network. We've just added more supported devices so you'll have fewer stranded smart... Read More