by Shane Henson — March 16, 2012—Eaton Corporation, a diversified industrial manufacturer, recently made available its new Power Xpert Reporting version 3.0, created to help facilities management professionals make sense of exhaustive power monitoring data and identify vital statistics to improve the efficiency and reliability of facilities.
According to Eaton, the powerful software can be used track and compare systems within facilities and across the enterprise. New standard and custom reports help customers take advantage of government incentives, avoid penalties, and reduce their carbon footprint.
Power Xpert Reporting now provides 13 ready-to-go report templates with intuitive graphics and charts to help customers understand and manage critical power systems and energy flow as a whole. The newest version of Power Xpert Reporting adds standard baseline and dashboard report templates, along with custom reporting capabilities. Additionally, Power Xpert Reporting is tested and configured to use with VMware high-availability clusters for critical systems.
New baseline comparison reports measure actual power consumption over time against a baseline. The report helps verify that buildings’ energy systems are installed, calibrated and perform as planned. Additionally, data is normalized for facility size, location, weather and other environmental variables. These baseline reports support LEED certification and help customers take advantage of government incentives.
With geographical mapping capabilities, a new dashboard report gives customers a bird’s eye view of Power Xpert software and Foreseer installations around the globe. Using Microsoft Bing Maps, each building site’s current alarms and status is indicated on a map.
Further, customers now have the flexibility to create custom reports with user-selectable or virtual attributes and complex formulas for custom data. New custom reports allow users to create virtual devices to calculate data input based on existing real-world device—reducing equipment costs, while providing power monitoring capabilities, says the company.
