by Shane Henson — June 17, 2013—JouleX, an innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, announced this month that it has added Best Energy Reduction Technologies, manufacturer of Bert, a WiFi plug, to its JouleX-Ready technology partner program for an enhanced energy solution.
The fully integrated JouleX and Bert solution allows customers to quickly and easily manage their entire plug load, both information technology (IT) and non-IT, to reduce energy costs by up to 70 percent, says JouleX. The solution integrates seamlessly with building management systems from Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and others.
Bert extends the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) platform to monitor, analyze, and control devices plugged into outlets that are not natively enabled with Internet protocol (IP) such as refrigerators, coffee makers, copiers, water coolers, vending machines, lamps, even mobile phone and tablet chargers.
According to JouleX, this solution gives facilities managers the ability to manage their non-IT plug load with their existing WiFi network along with their IT plug load in a central dashboard—providing visibility into all plug loads in context with other building loads such as lighting and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
“The combined solution of JouleX and Bert provides organizations with a plug load system that can measure energy usage, identify savings and reduce energy waste throughout the entire enterprise,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “We are excited to go to market to provide an integrated plug load solution to customers around the globe.”
