Tracking Energy Consumption on the Cisco Store

This 12 months at Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, the Cisco Store started a brand new initiative to proceed selling sustainability in our every day operations. The energy for the know-how deployed at our journey retailer was routed by way of twelve Meraki MT40s (sensible energy controllers that may monitor and remotely management energy). With our gadgets operating 24/7, we baselined the shop’s energy consumption all through the occasion with the assistance of CAE Labs’ WiserWatts: our whole vitality consumption for the present was 222.01 kWh. WiserWatts screens our Meraki gadgets’ energy consumption and offers power-saving, energy-efficient suggestions. Next 12 months, we are going to schedule our energy to check vitality and price financial savings to actively scale back our carbon footprint. Similar baselining and consequent energy scheduling will likely be carried out at Cisco Live Global beginning this June.

We equally baselined our energy consumption at our San Jose retailer, with the full energy consumption for 15 screens operating 24/7 over one week popping out to 429.72 kWh. With the assistance of CAE Labs, we scheduled the shop’s entry factors and switches to activate and off over PoE (Power over Ethernet), and screens had been routed by way of Meraki MT40s. We started shutting off the facility throughout off-hours in San Jose, solely permitting screens to stay ‘on’ for 12 hours a day, Monday by way of Friday: this resulted in our energy consumption over one week decreasing to 154.87 kWh, a 274.85 kWh distinction!

Compared to the baseline week, scheduling energy shut offs throughout off-hours additionally resulted in vitality prices decreasing from $64.46 USD to $23.23, a $41.23 distinction (assuming $0.15/kWh within the United States).

As one of many Cisco Store’s six core pillars is Sustainability, we closely prioritize decreasing our carbon emissions. Our scheduled energy shut offs additionally resulted in a discount of our greenhouse fuel emissions (GHG emissions) from 204.96 kg CO₂e to 74 kg CO₂e, a 130.96 kg CO₂e distinction.

The Cisco Store plans to commonly monitor our vitality, value, and GHG financial savings with this new initiative, and month-to-month updates will likely be printed on our Cisco Store Tech Lab ShareLevel web page (Cisco staff: log in through SSO to view). Be positive to examine again in to see our progress!

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