Matt Laherty blogs about the steps to take in order to measure the power consumption within disparate parts of an organization. This is a brilliant concept and can not only bring awareness to energy conservation and enterprise sustainability but promote healthy internal competition while saving the company . money.

"Step 2.  Select an Energy Monitoring Application That Can Collect the Data

Now that your Cisco EnergyWise enabled network can query power consumption for the whole building, deploy a software package that can give you a simple graphical interface  to configure, collect and report energy use information. 

There are several packages available today and more are in the works.

At this point we have a variety of product specific management tools deployed, but to date we have only one that can manage and monitor a complete Cisco EnergyWise deployment. This application is from JouleX."

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