Verdiem dashboard displays PC power savings

What's the reading? Verdiem's dashboard can be customized to view energy and carbon emissions reductions.

(Credit: Verdiem)

Verdiem on Monday is expected to release an add-on to its PC power-management software that gives people a customizable view of energy savings and carbon emissions reductions.

The Seattle-based company said that the software, called Sustainability Dashboard, offers a visual display for a number of metrics, such as savings over time, and translates that into the equivalent of cars removed from the road or trees planted.

It works with Surveyor, a program that lets IT departments automatically put computers on standby mode on a schedule. For example, it can turn off PCs at night that are left on or put a PC on standby after being idle for more than an hour.

The company says it can save a business between $20 and $60 per year by setting up power-management policies and that payback for the upfront investment can come in less than a year.

The company developed the Dashboard product so those savings can be better shared within a business.

"The challenge when you talk about green IT is how do you show tangible results--the economic savings, the carbon reductions--and share that real-time information," said Brett Goodwin, Verdiem's vice president of marketing.

The Dashboard can be customized to view different data--such as changing the date range for money savings--and can be embedded in companies' intranets. Because it works with Surveyor's server-based software, it cannot be embedded in public Web pages.

Verdiem also makes a free PC power-management tool called Edison for individual PC users.

[EricTh]

Very interesting. We use a similar solution from http://www.alpiron.com
It also works with servers in addition to workstations and can automatically turn on/off servers as needed. It is priced so it costs a fraction of what we save on power/cooling.