Greentech Lead America: JouleX, a provider of enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, has added Best Energy Reduction Technologies, manufacturer of Bert, a WiFi plug, to its JouleX-Ready technology partner program.
The fully integrated JouleX and Bert solution allows customers to quickly and easily manage their entire plug load, both IT and non-IT, to reduce energy costs by up to 70 percent. The solution integrates seamlessly with Building Management Systems (BMS) 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.
This solution gives building and energy 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 HVAC and lighting.
The solution also integrates with BMS such as those from Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, and Siemens. The integration with these systems allows users to set policies that trigger within a BMS, pull energy data from a BMS into the JEM platform, or from JEM into their BMS.
“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.
JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities.