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Energy Saver
Up to 80% savings on the carbon footprint and the energy bill of your IT infrastructure.The most complete power management solution in the market.
A lot of savings and no upfront costs.
Savings on computer equipment can add up quickly, several million dollars for AVOB™’s current customers. PCs and laptops can be the primary source of energy savings for the overall IT spend. If you add Networking and telephony costs to them, you are now looking at over 60% of the overall IT energy bill.
Traditional power savings solutions only save energy when users are not working on their equipment. However, most PCs and laptops have computing power beyond the actual needs of their users.
Powerful and user friendly, AVOB™ Energy Saver™ reduces by up to 75% the carbon footprint and the electrical consumption of your infrastructure, with a guaranteed ROI.
Seamlessly delivers to each user the processing power they need in a transparent and real time way. Additional savings and improved user experience.
Ensure that desktop and portable computers as well as their screens are put to sleep when not in use.
" So you have to go beyond traditional solutions if you want to optimize your power savings and cut the most off your energy bill. "
Microsoft's Environmental Technologist gave the example of an early bug that arose in the development of Windows 7: Adobe's Flash player was failing to close the audio channel, even if users were not listening to any music or playing any videos. That simple bug kept the PC from going to sleep, wasting energy and money in the process.
Microsoft
AVOB™ Energy Saver™ 3.4.
Your IT infrastructure as a new area of savings for your organization
AVOB™ brings you the most innovative power management solution on the market : both technology and business model are unique and help you make the most savings off your energy bill.
Technology
AVOB™ Energy Saver™ is the only solution on the market that maximizes energy savings when Desktops, Laptops, Screens, Cisco™ network elements (routers, switches, IP Phones, Wireless Access Points) are not being used (Smart Sleep™) and the only one that throttles processor (Efficient Power™) to match the actual needs while the PCs are being used.
Business model
AVOB™'s licensing model will charge the customer based on the actual savings. AVOB™ will work with the customer to first conduct an extensive audit to establish the baseline. Then the AVOB™ Energy Saver™ will help reduce consumption and realize savings. There is no upfront software license fee. However, if you look at the overall project, we are measuring ROI on how much they will end up having paid AVOB™ and how many months of energy savings will have paid for it.
So not only the technology brings rapid ROI but you do not have to pay the license fees upfront. You pay them once baseline and savings have been established. They are calculated on those.
AVOB™ Energy Saver™ 3.4 features:
Uniquely determines the energy needs of each PC while it is running or idle.
Can measure energy usage of each PC in real time.
Forces computers to go in deeper states when they are not being used without further impact to user productivity (Smart Sleep™)
Instantly allocates the right amount of power to each PC so that the user’s tasks can be carried on but no more that is actually required – processor speed and voltage are throttled to avoid any energy waste (Efficient Power™)
Wake up PCs across the network by passing through dynamic client proxies, Intel vPro™ or with scheduled tasks (Efficient Power™).
New features of AVOB™ Energy Saver™ 3.4 include:
A new architecture that allows for the server component to be hosted and run as SaaS – in addition to being run locally.
new reporting dashboard that can be run on the enterprise infrastructure or hosted as a SaaS application(Communication tools).
Forces computers to go in deeper states when they are not being used without further impact to user productivity (Smart Sleep™).
Support for the latest processors (Intel ® iSeries and AMD Hexacore).
Ability to define priority applications and processes that prevents hibernation for given categories of users. For example, users in the development group will have full power while they are using 3D design tools, and users in the finance group will have full power while Excel macros are running.
A powerful new user interface.
Real time throttling of processor performance:
a technological revolution for the planet.
Computing capabilities have grown tremendously and the famous Moore’s law still holds true. PCs and laptops pack an incredible amount of computing power to answer the needs of the most demanding applications and users.
To reduce the energy impact of computing equipment, power management solutions put PCs and laptops to sleep when users are no longer in front of them.
Efficient Power™
Efficient Power™ is an unique technology instantly allocate enough computing power of all laptops, desktops, servers depending on software needs: when users do not need power, processor speed and voltage are reduced to spend less energy.
Energy Saver™ is therefore the only solution on the market that reduces your energy consumption 100% of the time. The software impacts consumption behind the scenes all the time.
The Efficient Power™ technology leverages the latest capabilities developed by chipset manufacturers Intel and AMD and passed their certifications. Efficient Power™ will reduce the energy consumption of PCs and laptops without any negative impact to user productivity. This brings a lot of new energy savings when it matter most: during daytime at the peak of energy consumption overall.
AVOB™ Team
Why implement Efficient Power™ ?
Our technology for ramping down processor speed and voltage in laptops lead to an "automatic" reduction in laptop power usage by 15 to 30 percent. For example, a Lenovo X31 laptop tested in labs with battery life extended from about 6 hours to 7.5 hours We can also make savings on production computers for example who have to be ON 24/24h.
Additionnal bennefits
- Increase life of equipment.
- Increase the battery life of laptops.
- Increase autonomy of battery.
- Decrease CPU temperature and power dissipation.
AVOB™ Smart Sleep™.
Your infrastructure equipment can sleep safely.
Power management solutions must maximize energy savings without any impact to user experience or productivity. The ideal solution must be powerful yet flexible enough to match the needs of all users.
Energy needs are very different from one organization to another: large or small enterprises do not have the same usage profile. Within a given organization, different teams will have different usage patterns as well: R&D users will not have the same need as the sales team for example. Another dimension of complexity is the fact that energy costs will be different from one power company to another with costs fluctuations introduced at times of important usage.
Even at the level of granularity of a given group, different users will have different usage patterns and needs. Most power management solutions on the market allow for granularity at the user group level (based on integration with directory services like Active Directory) – but that is not enough. Indeed, it becomes very difficult to implement a solution that is optimal for all without a supporting technology that allows granularity to the user or application level. Here are some examples of where it might matter:
- Within the sales organization you can have Inside sales people and field sales people that will have very different needs and usage patterns.
- Within R&D maybe a Small group of developers needs to run simulations or régression tests all day while others will not.
- A handful of users in the finance group that might need to leave their machines on during the night once a month to calculate and generate the latest accounting report before the monthly board meeting.
- No savings on a number that PCs that happen to run an application that prevents Sleep mode without any real need for that PC not to go to sleep when not in use.
This was a call for [users] to start taking the issue seriously, like they have with reliability and security in the past. Developers have not played an active role in ensuring that their applications allow systems to run efficiently. It's all too easy for systems to undermine power management, or contribute to a poor user experience when they're trying to use power management.
— Mark Aggar, Microsoft's Director Of Environmental Technology
AVOB™ Smart Sleep™
Smart Sleep™ brings an intelligent, unique and flexible management of the power settings. AVOB™’s proprietary algorithms bring a wealth of new capabilities to power management.
AVOB™ Team
Why a focus on sleep?
One of the main points of dissatisfaction among PC users comes from boot time. Regardless of the hardware configuration, turning on the machine and booting up the operating system takes time before control is given to the user. This expectation is sensitive, enough so that many users prefer to leave their machine on continuously. The sleep state saves the work environment when it is enabled, and keeps the PC active at a minimum level, with reduced power consumption. Benefit: the machine's startup time is also reduced to a level that becomes tolerable to the user.
— Extract From Microsoft, Intel, AVOB™ White Paper
The result:
Maximize savings without any negative impact to user experience.
Intelligent management of sleep and standby modes:
Choosing the standby type (simple sleep, hibernation mode).
Setting the time before the display goes to sleep.
Setting the time before the PC enters Standby mode.
Setting the CISCO EnergyWise conditions of active elements of the network (router, Wi-Fi hotspot, IP phone).
Possibility to force the standby of the PC.
Bypass applications forcing the PC to stay on (only in case of user inactivity).
Possibility to force the wake without network control.
Support for Wake-On-Lan Technology.
Management of Battery and Power Adapter modes.
Optimization of equipment power in real time:
Unique AVOB™ Efficient Power™ technology.
Automatic and instantaneous regulation of power according to the user needs (unique and proprietary algorithm for predicting user needs).
ManPossibility to set a power limit for PCs to decrease consumption the days of energy usage peak.
Improved control of PC power consumption overallallowing better handle on energy costs.
Centralized management of network energy:
Centralized and ergonomic interface.
Auto-detection of stations on the network and auto-configuration by work group.
Managing multiple LDAP directories, including Active Directory.
Reorganization on the fly by personalized groups (adaptation to the energy configuration).
Applications of energy policies at different levels (company, group, station) in response to global and individual needs.
Remote management via VNC access
Understand and maximize
the impact of your Green IT strategy.
A Green IT project requires coordination and efforts from stakeholders across the enterprise: CIO, CFO, Operations and IT … and the end users as well.
End-user
No impact to work environment and productivity.
Understands the importance of Green efforts and the impact of using PCs in an eco-efficient way.
CIO
Improve service quality.
Simple, efficient and feature-rich.
IT brings new savings to the enterprise.
Enterprise
Savings on energy bill and carbon footprint.
Packaged and scalable solution.
The environment
Less carbon émissions.
Less energy need.
But...
Implementing a power management solution requires work and involvement from many stakeholders across the organization.
End users are often worried about the impact such solutions can have on their productivity and work environment.
Communication around Green IT is rarely based on actual numbers and often seen as too vague and generic.
Energy Saver™ delivers precise reporting tools that give you a unique communication capability.
AVOB™ Team
AVOB™ Dashboard: post and communicate your savings
Green business intelligence web tool (hosted as a SaaS application or on the enterprise infrastructure).
Visualize savings at different levels of granularity: individual PCs, groups or company wide.
Visualize and understand the return on investment (posting savings in currency, kWh and CO2).
Sheet of summary of Energy policies implemented.
PC health status monitoring.
Interactive Dashboard on the web. Interactive monitoring of Green IT indicators of the company.
Easy creation of custom energy usage reports. Obtaining immediate actual numbers about the savings achieved.
Energy Viewer 3.4 Widget: Share your Green Initiative with the end-users!
The user can define a period without sleep or standby.
AVOB™ Widget notifies the user of the savings achieved by the company.
The administrator can enable or disable the widget functionality.
AVOB™ Wake Up!™
Your infrastructure will be at work on time!
Traditional Client and Server management suites were based for a long time on the notion of having PCs or laptops turned on at all times. This would allow the management suite to perform patching, antivirus or other tasks quickly on all the equipment.
While it is important to make sure that all PCs and laptops requiring maintenance are on for that cycle, it is not efficient to keep them on at all times just for that.
The ideal solution must be able to turn on all the equipment for the maintenance – not missing a single PC or laptop that requires the maintenance.
AVOB™’s Wake UP ! technology brings together a large number of Wake technologies (WakeUp timers, Dynamic WoL using clients as proxies, Intel vPro integration, WakeOnWeb) so that no PC or laptop is left behind during the maintenance cycle.
AVOB™ Team
