With real-time remote power monitoring, environmental monitoring, and data centre infrastructure integration, an Intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU) improves the efficiency of data centres. Intelligent rack PDUs provide the technology necessary for a smarter IT infrastructure, allowing you to anticipate issues before they arise. They help data centre managers in achieving their ultimate objective, which is to maintain uptime while cutting costs.

1. What is an intelligent PDU?
With real-time remote power monitoring, environmental monitoring, and data centre infrastructure
integration, an Intelligent Power Distribution Unit (iPDU) improves the efficiency of data centres.
Intelligent rack PDUs provide the technology necessary for a smarter IT infrastructure, allowing you to
anticipate issues before they arise. They help data centre managers in achieving their ultimate
objective, which is to maintain uptime while cutting costs.
Different Rack PDU Types
• Metered Inlet PDUs: Metered inlet PDUs show data both locally and remotely and measure
power at the PDU inlet level.
• Metered Outlet PDUs: Metered outlet PDUs have metering at the outlet level in addition to
the same functions as metered inlet PDUs. They also show data both locally and across a
network.
• Switched PDUs with Outlet Metering: These PDUs incorporate the features of both switched
PDUs and outlet-metered PDUs.
Thegreatest option for lowering costs, improving availability, offering energy efficiency, and managing
capacity already in use is intelligent PDUs.
Non-Intelligent PDUs
Power strips used in data centre environments are known as basic PDUs. To power the stacked IT
equipment, they distribute voltage and current.
Monitored PDUs: These PDUs give a user access to a local display that normally shows data about the
electrical current. These devices are not network-connected, and remote access is not possible.
Why Use Intelligent PDUs in Today's Data Centers? Here are some clear benefits that intelligent
PDUs offer:
• Increased uptime: By using user-defined thresholds to monitor power at the device or PDU
level and get alerts, when possible, problems arise, and IT managers can maintain mission-
critical systems operating at their best.
• Reduce costs and power consumption: Without spending money on on-site visits, iPDUs can
monitor server performance and swiftly reboot failed systems by combining outlet-level
power monitoring with trend analysis. To save energy, IT equipment that is not in use during
off-hours can be shut off.
• Green data center: Reducing carbon footprints by offering the best possible temperature,
humidity, and energy control. Managers of data centers can increase efficiency by using
environmental sensors linked to intelligent PDUs.
• Real-time data collection: Real-time data on current (amps), voltage, power (kVA, kW), and
energy usage is gathered by intelligent PDUs (kWh). To understand real-time power load,

2. capacity, and trends at all levels of data centre infrastructure, intelligent PDUs collaborate
with DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) systems to produce reports that alert to
any unanticipated concerns.
See how Radiant can alter the way you approach managing the most difficult issues in your data
centre. visit radiant.in right now.