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eiPower Cloud Based Assessment

Discover your potential energy and emissions savings

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Assessment Results in Net Zero Cloud

How much can you impact ESG and cost savings?

See what your organization is actually paying to power computers before you move forward with a complete implementation. Through our eiPower Cloud Services Assessment, we measure the power used by a group of computers for 18 days. Then, we’ll share with you the average energy usage, cost and carbon emissions per day per computer — and what you could have saved with eiPower. It’s as simple and safe as installing a smart phone app.

How It Works

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We send you our IoT software sensor, a standard 10mb MSI installation file, which you distribute to up to 500 computers. Our highly secure sensor has passed every security review.

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We measure the amount of kWh usage, and time each computer could have gone into low power mode—saving electricity, carbon emissions and energy costs.

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You tell us how much you pay for power, including peak/off peak and winter/summer rates. 

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We deliver an assessment report showing the average kWh usage, cost and carbon emissions per day—and the savings you could have achieved with eiPower.

eiPower Computer Power Usage Assessment FAQs

  • Before the assessment begins, EIP or Partner will collect the criteria of success, which will be documented and proven in the assessment report.
  • You will schedule testing of the IoT sensor (an MSI app that installs on a PC) with your security team. Then, choose up to 500 computers as assessment candidates, perform any change control procedures, and schedule IT for package build and assessment group creation. You’ll deploy IoT sensor to a few computers at first. Once EIP verifies they are showing up on the cloud server, you can schedule full deployment.
  • After three days of full deployment, EIP will verify computers are sending data and eliminate computers that are not to ensure the quality of the data collected. After this, the assessment should commence on a Monday and run for 18 days.
  • As the data is collected, you will forward the price of electricity by time of day, peak/off peak, and winter/summer season.  This is used to calculate electricity cost savings.

You can assess up to 500 computers, although 250 will produce sufficient data. When fully deployed, we will capture the data for 18 days before running the report.

No, the IoT sensor does not change any desktop settings, or interfere with IT maintenance or user productivity.

eiPower only captures power event data, which is stored in a SQL Server database that can be encrypted. The eiPower IoT sensor is the only component that initiates a connection to the server—and that sensor has been used in highly secure government and defense contractor installations. All data is transferred securely via SSL. Additionally, all cloud components conform to both AWS and Microsoft Cloud Security standards. Both government and commercial cloud platforms are available.

Data captured includes the computer and monitor model, the power state duration of time the computer spent in various power modes, and the present power scheme. This data is used to calculate kWh usage, cost, carbon emissions and potential savings. Data can be sent real time or on a schedule. Sending from IoT sensors is randomized and rarely exceeds 1.2KB.

The computers you select as your assessment candidates should represent daily business use. We don’t recommend using IT computers because they do not represent user configurations and are modified by users with administrator rights. Similarly, computer lab, and kiosk PCs are not good candidates because they do not represent the daily use of your business.

We recommend installing the IoT sensor on a few computers first. EIP will send screen shots of the computers from the Cloud Server for verification before you deploy the sensors to your remaining assessment computers.

How much can you save?

Schedule an assessment to uncover your potential energy and carbon emissions savings.