User Manual

Packet Power™ Smart Power Cable User’s Manual
Copyright 2012 © Packet Power, LLC.
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Figure 4: The EMX portal provides detailed energy use reporting and energy and power usage data along with
alarm capabilities.
o Packet Power’s EMX monitoring portal provides access to real-time information
on power, energy and environmental usage along with data analysis and
reporting tools that can be easily customized. The Power Manager product
compliments the portal and adds tools specific to advanced data center
monitoring. Packet Power’s applications can be accessed from a cloud-based
service or installed at a customer site.
o Certain models of the Ethernet Gateway provide protocol conversion and
management capabilities allowing applications that can accept data in the SNMP
or Modbus TCPIP protocols to access data from the wireless monitoring devices.
A Smart Power Cable communicates with other cables and a Gateway using Packet
Power’s wireless mesh network. As soon as a Smart Power Cable is plugged in, it
automatically tries to join the wireless network. If you already have an operating Packet
Power network within your facility, information from a newly installed Smart Power Cable will
become available shortly after it is plugged in. If you do not yet have a Packet Power
network operating within your facility, please refer to the gateway section of the manual for
additional information regarding wireless gateway and software setup.
Communications
Information gathered by a power cable is transmitted via a Packet Power radio network
operating at either 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz (the exact frequencies vary with region – please
contact Packet Power for details). The network operates in a mesh topology. Each device
in the network must be within range of at least one other device (either another monitoring
node or the Gateway) in the network. The effective range of the radio in the Smart Power
Cables varies depending on several factors, including the environment in which the product
is used. Typically, each device has an effective range of 20 to 50 meters. The Smart