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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 [email protected]
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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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