Reclaim money from your power bill with IPMPlus

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Agenda

• The Big Picture – why is saving power in computers essential?• Limitations of Conventional Power Saving approaches▫ Technical limitations▫ Management issues

• The IPMPlus approach to power management▫ Technical Approach▫ IPMPlus measurement system and soft metering▫ The Standard Arithmetic of Power Savings in Computers▫ Power Savings and extension of UPS & Laptop Battery Life

• Case Study• About Vigyanlabs • Customers of IPMPlus

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Imagine…

Computers left powered on in…• Schools• Colleges• Companies • Banks• Training Centers• Hospitals• Browsing Centers• …• Almost everywhere

The average PC wastes 50% of the power it consumes…Source: ClimateSavers, a Google-led consortium

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The Big Picture – why is energy savings in computers important?

Energy savings Environmental Impact

800 Kilograms of CO2

1,000 kWh of Electricity saved 95,000 Liters of Water

200 Full Grown Trees @ 39 Kilograms per year of CO2 absorption

A organization with 1,000 PCs can save…

100,000 kWh (units) of electricity in a year

80,000 Kilograms of CO2

95,00,000 Liters of Water

20,000 Full Grown Trees @ 39 Kilograms per year of CO2 absorption

and Rs. 10 Lakhs per annumin electricity bills

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Limitations of Traditional Power Management Approaches

• Technical challenges▫ Multiple Operating Systems run in organizations. ▫ How to enable Power Savings on a Large Scale

across Operating Systems without spending too much time and effort?

▫ 1 Power Policy Does Not Work for everyone. How to deploy Customizable Policies for different kinds of Business Functions? E.g. Front Office, Finance, HR, Marketing

▫ Power Policy affects People’s Work ! Some examples:

System turns off when you are presenting Network connection gets terminated File Download stops due to system going to standby Software Upgrades get interrupted

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Limitations of Traditional Power Management Approaches

• Management challenges▫ People do not remember to turn off PCs. How to

make sure PCs are powered down on a large scale when employees leave?

▫ Turning off PCs when they are working irritates people. How can you enable power savings without turning off?

▫ How to measure Power Savings Impact and convince the management? What is not measured, is not adopted. It is not practically possible to connect an Energy Meter

to every PC to report Power Savings Impact.

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IPMPlus from Vigyanlabs A new approach to Intelligent Power Management

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IPMPlus is the winner of NASSCOM’s Technology Innovation of the Year Award, 2013

• IPMPlus software enables Green Computing▫ Measures Energy Consumption▫ Delivers Energy Savings ▫ Improves IT Asset Utilization▫ Reduces Carbon footprint▫ Non-intrusive and easy to deploy ▫ Scales to 1,00,000 PC environments

• IPMPlus comes with strong credentials▫ Patented technology ▫ Featured by IBM as a Partner World solution▫ Benchmarked at IBM Innovation Lab▫ Certified by Microsoft for Windows 7 and 8

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IPMPlus energy savings approach is non-intrusive and delivers quantified energy savings

Traditional approach to energy savings in IT infrastructure

IPMPlus approach to energy savings in IT infrastructure

• Generic power optimizations• Time-based policies• Device specific, not scalable

▫ Chip/Server/OS-specific• Intrusive

▫ Impacts User Experience▫ Impacts system performance

• Energy savings not measurable

• Fine-grained power optimizations• Application-sensor policies• Multi-OS support

• Non-intrusive• No impact on User Experience• No impact on performance

• Energy savings quantified

IPMPlus is supported on Windows XP, Vista, 7 & 8RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS

and Fedora

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IPMPlus enables Fine-Grained Power Management

• Traditional Approach▫ Can only move systems

across power states as supported in Version/Edition of OS Standby Hibernate Power Off

• IPMPlus approach▫ Can enable fine-grained policies across

groups Set Monitor Working brightness level Set Idle Monitor brightness level Dim Monitor, Turn-off monitor Enable ‘adaptive’ processor speeds Turn off hard-disk

▫ Can enable ‘Do Not Power Off’ conditions If CPU utilization > x% If Network traffic exists If live Print or File Copy operations are

going on

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IPMPlus enables Fine-Grained Power Management

• Traditional Approach▫ Cannot group nodes and

customize policies for ad-hoc groups – have to follow Domain Groups only

▫ Cannot enable uniform power policies across multiple Editions and Flavors of Operating Systems

▫ Application based power policies NOT possible

• IPMPlus approach▫ Can create ad-hoc groups agnostic of

OS/Flavors/Editions▫ Can apply Custom Policies for each

Group

• Application Sensor based Power Policies can be enabled▫ Patented by Vigyanlabs

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Benefits of ‘Application Sensor’ based power policies

• Software Applications drive Computer Resource usage▫ CPU▫ Memory▫ Disk I/O▫ Network I/O

• Using application sensors helps ensure “non-intrusiveness”

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Using IPMPlus in Computers helps in…

• electricity consumption• cooling loads • peak load demand charges• air pollution• carbon footprint• water wastage

And…Saves MONEY too…

Case Study: IPMPlus delivers 50% energy savings for M.S. Ramiah Institute of Technology

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Established in 1962, MSRIT is one of India’s finest engineering colleges with NBA Level A accreditation

IPMPlus Deployment

Founded in 1962 One of India’s finest engineering colleges 35,000+ engineering professionals since inception One of the largest educational campuses located in Bangalore, India’s IT capital Accredited at the highest level, Level A, by National Board of Accreditation of India

1,600+ PCs and Laptops covered in Phase – 50+ lab facilities and college administration covered in Phase – 1 Implemented on Windows and Linux operating systems Go live in 15 days end-to-end Phase – 2 deployment plans to cover nearly 3,000 systems

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IPMPlus power savings policies helped the institute cut energy consumption by 50% in 6 months

14.79 MWh of electricity saved

50%Reduction in energy consumed

6.72 Tonnes of CO2 emissions reduced

172 TreesEnvironmental impact equal to planting these

many trees

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The arithmetic of power savings in computers

• Average power consumed by a PC = 1 kWh per day (for 8-9 hours of usage)

• Estimated power consumption by 5,000 PCs in a year with 220 working days (excluding college holidays) = 220 x 5,000 x 1 kWh = 1,100 MegaWattHours

• At INR 10/- per kWh, Energy Consumed by PCs in a year = 1 Crore 10 Lakhs for 5,000 PCs per annum

• Average idle time in colleges as % of hours of usage = 30-50% • Potential for power savings @ 30% = 330 MWh which

translates to 33 Lakhs per annum

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The arithmetic of power savings in computers…Advanced Scenario

• There are significant difficulties in procuring power and ensuring power supplies to a large PC user community▫ Steadily increasing cost of power per kWh ▫ Penalties being levied by Electricity Board for exceeding limits▫ Capital expenditure towards UPS purchase and maintenance▫ Costs of diesel generator backups for many hours every day

• 30% power savings in computers => 30% More Load can be added on UPS

• 30% power savings => 30% less charge cycles in laptops and consequently, 30% longer battery life

Reducing energy consumption in PCs can help in reducing Total load in UPS and spend on diesel backup

About Vigyanlabs, the creators of IPMPlus

• An innovative, science and technology company• 15+ United States Patents• Experts in Green Computing and High Performance Systems• Architects of ‘Aadhaar’, world’s largest biometrics based

identity system• Industry recognition and partnerships

▫ Winner of NASSCOM Technology Innovation of the Year, 2013 and NASSCOM IP4Biz Award, 2012

▫ Red Herring Top 100 Technology Companies of Asia, 2013▫ ChannelWorld – Top 50 Hot Companies of 2013▫ IBM Global Entrepreneur, 2011▫ Microsoft BizSpark, 2010

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Top Enterprise Customers of IPMPlus – Indian and Multi-national Companies

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Shri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka

Multinational Customers

Indian Customers

A leading Australian Bank

IPMPlus delivers True ROI™ and Actionable Sustainability ™