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Canara Insight for Branch CircuitsAVOID TRIPPED CIRCUITS AND QUICKLY IDENTIFY AVAILABLE CAPACITY

Data centers consume vast amounts of energy. For both multi-tenant and enterprise data centers, the need to understand concentrations of energy usage and potential points of energy wastage have never been greater.

Data centers and their tenants are implementing usage-based cost allocation for billing precision, while enterprise data centers are doing the same to accurately allocate usage to internal business-units. Data centers require data visibility to safely increase their utilization, maximize the value of their data center infrastructure and eliminate interruptions to service.

Affordable, extensive and easy to install.

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POWER INFRASTRUCTURE VISIBILITY

Canara Branch Circuit Monitoring System

delivers the granular visibility into power

utilization for advanced warning and prevention

of tripped circuits and unbalanced loads. As a

key component in the ecosystem of critical power

management, this essential alarming capability

provides timely, actionable notifications to the

appropriate personnel on impending issues with

power distribution at the circuit level.

An intuitive view of electrical panels allows data

center operators to quickly identify circuit-level

threshold violations and usage trends.

FEATURE LITE PRO

Individual BCM Collectors monitor up to 21 circuits and can be integrated to monitor a panel of up to 84 circuits

X X

Automatically identify and configure instrumentation of each branch circuit

X X

Supports replaceable CTs for various current thresholds on each branch circuit

X X

Provides current and MAX current at each individual branch circuit X X

Capture total current per phase for the entire electrical panel including any peak loads

X X

Monitor 1, 2 and 3-pole circuits X X

Configure paired circuits to monitor shared load such that if one fails, the remaining circuit carries the load

X X

Provides power (kW) and energy (kWh) measurement for each individual branch circuit

X

Capture power per phase and energy per phase for the entire electrical panel

X

The Canara Branch Circuit Monitoring

(BCM) System is an affordable solution

that is designed for ease of installation,

accuracy of data collection, timely

reporting of anomalies and intuitive

presentation of electrical usage history.

Whatever your need in granular per-circuit

monitoring, the Canara BCM meets you

where you are.

Canara’s BCM System delivers precise,

intelligent analysis of circuit-level electrical

usage, while enhancing visibility into the

power infrastructure, enabling load-based

cost allocation, and improving capacity

planning.

Leveraging the interoperability provided by

the Canara Manager, the system provides

integration via SNMP or Modbus into any

Data Center Infrastructure Management

(DCIM) or Building Management System

(BMS) software package.

When combined with the Canara Insight

Center, this solution incorporates robust

reporting and presentation of usage data.

CANARA INSIGHT FOR BRANCH CIRCUITS

EXTENSIVE FEATURE SET

The Canara Branch Circuit Monitoring (BCM)

meets a broad spectrum of circuit-level current,

power and energy monitoring needs among data

center stakeholders. The system features two

main solution tiers, with an easy upgrade path

from the Lite version to the Pro version.

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“ “Canara BCM delivers exactly what you need without unnecessary bells and whistles. It’s such a straightforward system, The ease of implementation and the user-friendly reports solidified our decision.”

— SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, GLOBAL PROVIDER OF INFORMATION SOLUTIONS

FEATURE LITE PRO

Intuitive modeling and graphical representation of the hierarchy of circuits, electrical panels, PDUs and other parts of the power infrastructure

X X

Precise aggregation of circuit level data to provide panel and PDU summary usage

X X

Provide historical usage trends by circuit, by panel, and by PDU X X

Circuit management module enabling users to define key properties of each circuit (e.g. name, owner, phase, breaker position, etc.)

X X

User-configured warning and critical alarm thresholds with email-based notification

X X

Usage-based power and energy calculation by circuit owner X

Configure energy-cost profile by individual circuit owners X

LOAD-BASED COST ALLOCATION

The Canara BCM solution includes the necessary

software module for allocation of circuits to

respective “circuit owners.” In tracking the

power usage, the system enables precise usage-

based cost allocation by accurately allocating

power usage to appropriate business units in an

enterprise or tenants in a multi-tenant data center.

ENERGY SAVINGS INITIATIVES, PERFORMANCE TRACKING AND CAPACITY PLANNING PRECISION

Through its real-time usage measurements,

Canara’s BCM solution highlights instances of

stranded power and wastage. Precise power and

energy calculations provide the granular metrics

necessary for evaluating energy efficiency and

long-term capacity planning. By presenting

historical trends of measured current usage

against known, facility-specific thresholds, Canara

BCM provides a reliable guide that answers the

question: “where to put additional load.” This

capability furnishes an early business indicator of

shifting tenant needs and identifies when tenant

usage warrants reduced or additional capacity.

INTEGRATION & DATA ACCESS

There are several mechanisms by which you can

access and visualize data from the Branch Circuit

Monitoring Solution. These include access via

Canara Connect, a software application hosted on

local Canara Manager hardware, or via an existing

Building Management Systems over SNMP or

Modbus to provide access to circuit level utilization.

Lastly, customers can leverage our monitoring

and reporting service. With Canara Insight for

Branch Circuits, secure, authenticated access to

system wide usage metrics is available anytime

anywhere via the Canara Insight Center.

CONNECTIVITY FEATURES LITE PRO

On board Ethernet to allow seamless connectivity as a secure private network

X X

Allows centralized access to the BCM data captured via the Canara Manager device

X X

System integrates with any DCIM software via SNMP or Modbus X X

Web-based access to locally hosted system through the Connect application

X X

Hosted 24 x 7 data access and periodic reporting via the Canara Monitoring Operations Center

X X

BENEFITS • Detect imminent circuit-level threshold violations early

• Mitigate risk of downtime as a result of over-current scenarios

• Identify phase or load imbalance at the panel level

• Allow for the reclamation of stranded power

• Enable usage-based billing

• Add load safely and preemptively identify need for additional capacity by tenant

• Provide clients with automatic or online capacity reports

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ONLINE www.canara.com sales@canara.com

+86 10 8712 0457 TEL +86 10 8712 0005 FAX

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CONTACT+1 415 462 8950 TEL +1 877 422 8874 TOLL FREE

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ROBUST REPORTING & SUPPORT SERVICES

Canara Insight for Branch Circuits is a monitoring

and reporting service that incorporates

manipulation, analysis and presentation of

your usage data. Core usage reporting is

provided via the Canara Insight Center. Critical

alert notifications based on usage in excess of

thresholds and rapid changes in utilization are

sent via email.

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