Power Management

Energy costs continue to rise and to be a significant drain on the profitability of any business or organization. That is why companies everywhere are looking for ways to cut back on energy usage. Many utilities firms are now offering significant rebates for reduced energy usage. However, to take advantage of these rebates, firms typically have to cut energy consumption by a defined percentage over the previous year, often as much as 20% or more. Herein lies the challenge. How do you cut energy costs while still maintaining service levels necessary to be competitive?

What many businesses may not realize is that the solution is as simple as the "off" button on the front of the computers they use every day. Firms often leave their desktop and notebook systems running 24x7x365, which consumes far more energy than many realize. Even power-save modes draw energy -- wasted energy and wasted profits. The costs can be staggering, as the example below shows.

The average work-day is about 10 hours, or 50 hours a week. A week, however, has 168 hours. This means that even in power-save modes, systems are drawing energy for about 118 hours where no one is using them. This equates to 6136 hours for one machine in one year. Think of the energy consumed for an office with 100 systems - 613,600 hours of wasted power draw! Calculate Your Potential Savings

SyAM Software has developed a Power Management solution that could cut energy costs by as much as 40% or more. Our products allow administrators to create power policies and enforce them without any intervention by end-users. Just think, no more "please shut down" stickies everywhere.

Learn more by reading about how Region #12 School District in Connecticut is saving power and qualified for an energy conservation rebate towards the purchase of SyAM Software.

Each desktop or notebook running the System Client and managed through a System Area Manager, can be quickly configured for a daily scheduled graceful shutdown.

Administrators configure the daily shut-down period through either of our System Area Management Interface or to groups of systems through the SyAM Management Utilities.

Additional Scheduled power on of groups of systems can be enabled using the SyAM Management Utilities.

But can this really reduce energy costs by 40% or sometimes substantially more? An example illustrates this point.

How Much Can You Really Save?

Without Power Management

• Number of PCs - 200
• Energy Rate (per kWh) - $0.17
• Average Wattage per PC - 114
• Weekday Hours On - 24
• Weekend Hours On - 24
• Annual kWh Used - 199,728
• Annual Cost - $33,954

With Power Management

• Number of PCs - 200
• Energy Rate (per kWh) - $0.17
• Average Wattage per PC - 114
• Daily Hours On - 14
• Weekend Hours On - 0
• Annual kWh Used - 83,539
• Annual Cost - $14,202

The Difference

• Total Energy Savings - 42%
• kWh - 116,189
• Dollars - $19,752 in one year, not including rebates from utilities firms

Consumption Assumptions*

• Typical Desktop - 114 Watts
• Typical Laptop - 50 Watts
• Power-save Mode - 30 Watts
• Typical 17" CRT - 150 Watts
• Typical 17" LCD - 75 Watts
• Sleeping Monitor - 15 Watts

*based on US Department of Energy calculations and information

Wattage Calculations
(Watts X Hours Used / 1000) X Cost Per kWh = Total Cost