IP-Enabled Energy Management: A Proven Strategy for Administering Energy as a Service

290 Pages·2010·2.65 MB·English

by  Rob Aldrich

IP-Enabled Energy
Management

IP-Enabled Energy
Management
A Proven Strategy for
Administering Energy as a
Service
Rob Aldrich
John Parello
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—Rob Aldrich
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Acknowledgments
We believe the writing of this book is an opportunity to architect and articulate a solution to a
piece of a problem we are all just starting to understand—global resource management. There
has been much discussion in the last four years on how technology professionals can apply
existing tools to global problems related to the environment. If you combine the experience of
the authors, this book represents nearly 10 years of dedicated focus in addition to a virtual team
structure of nearly 80 people.
We could not have written this book without the dedication, support, and professionalism of
the virtual teams with which we interacted, primarily within Cisco. Creating a new technology
at Cisco involved scores of people that provide their talents, time, and cooperation. It is impos-
sible to name them all, but the entire Cisco family helped to create the work in this book and we
thank you all.
Our extended industry teams were made possible with the support of many of today’s lead-
ing technology companies. These companies all employ people who, like us, are trying to apply
their knowledge of technology to the myriad of problems related to improving global, natural
resource management.
Given the scope and limited standardization that exists in energy management solutions
today, not all companies with whom we interacted have specific solutions. However, all of these
companies maintained an open posture relating to improved energy management, and each
provided some piece of the puzzle. This posture, coupled with innovative thought across facili-
ties and IT disciplines, gave us a body of work we believe should be shared. We have provided
a table of the people and companies who, starting in 2006, have helped us shape the strategy
addressed in this book in some way:
Thanks to Company Individual(s) Contribution
American Power Neil Rasmussen, John Providing many, many contributions to crit-
Conversion (APC) Tuccillo, Victor Avelar, ical facilities modularity, IP management
and the entire APC Sciences capabilities, and pushing the technological
Center envelope for the data center facilities indus-
try in general.
BB&T Paul Marcoux Providing wisdom of the ages across many
elements of energy efficiency, from indi-
vidual products all the way up through grid
architectures.
Brunel University Simon Furber Telling us we had to build this, not for our-
selves, but for customers like you. Thanks
for being the lighthouse and the early
deployment.
Cisco Doug Alger Making it a priority to facilitate shared learn-
ing on energy-efficient data center design.
Andy Broer Providing leading capacity management
services that account for environmental
impacts.
vIII | Acknowledgments
Thanks to Company Individual(s) Contribution
Cisco Michael Brown Providing years of professional support,
friendship, and showing us how a writer is
supposed to write.
Cisco Green Task Force Providing countless hours of oddly timed,
global-collaboration sessions and having a
deep passion for affecting positive change.
Cisco Energy Management Having an obsessive need to provide real
Services Team solutions to real problems.
Cisco EnergyWise Coding, testing, and working around every
Engineering Team obstacle so quickly and so well. You are a
(Neetha Anandakumar, great team and it is a pleasure to help you do
Richard Andrades, Amber the work you are good at. Thanks for joining
Imam, Brock Miller, Jason in our little startup.
Ristich, Ravi Rayi, Lucern
Ma, Brad Schoening, Joe
Salowey, Scott Fluhrer, and
all the engineers, interns, and
managers at Cisco in our cross
company team that worked in
and out of our code base)
Cisco EnergyWise IETF Team Taking us “public” to the IETF with our MIB
(Benoit Claise, Mouli and the ongoing expert support.
Chandramouli, and the
NSSTG team)
Cisco EnergyWise Product, Providing the scope, development support,
Marketing, and Program marketing, and logistics for a great product.
Management Teams
(Sriram Balasubramaniam,
Berna Devrim, Albert
Mitchell, Ramesh Bijor,
Siva Valliappan, Carmen
Villalobos, Tom Zingale, and
everyone in the product and
marketing teams)
Cisco EnergyWise Test Team Testing our code and features even when
(Roger Abad, Isayas Abaye, we were early or late. “EnergyWise is
Joe Guo, Dante Thompson, working….”
and all the testers and
managers)
Edna Conway Providing strong leadership in address-
ing many elements of materials sourcing,
supply chain management, and product
compliance.
Piper Gianola Driving a culture of considerate attention to
the impacts of our activities.