Industry

Energy Metering for Data Centres

PUE. Per-Rack Billing. COP Tracking. One Meter Family.

Class 0.5S energy meters and thermal meters engineered for Indian data centres — revenue-grade for colocation billing, granular enough for PUE tracking and chiller optimisation, and compliance-ready for Tier III / Tier IV audits. Deploy at the rack, PDU, UPS, chiller, or any point on your single-line diagram.

Why data centres choose Tech OVN

Four reasons our meter stack fits the Indian data-centre profile — colo, hyperscaler, and enterprise on-prem alike.

Revenue-Grade Colocation Billing

Class 0.5S per rack or per cage for accurate customer billing. Pulse outputs integrate with DCIM and billing systems. CT-free options for post-install retrofit of live racks.

PUE Tracking Built In

Meter the IT load, the cooling load, and the facility auxiliaries separately — PUE computes automatically on the platform. Monthly, hourly, or per-zone PUE available.

Per-Subsystem Visibility

UPS efficiency, CRAC/chiller kW/TR, generator test runs, lighting, BMS. Every loss pathway becomes a data point, which is what the Tier III and ISO 50001 audits expect.

High-Density & Hot-Aisle Ready

Titan is Class 0.5S, rated to 70°C ambient, and comes in a 4-DIN rail form factor — fits inside PDU cabinets and switchboards without bespoke mounting.

The data-centre stack

From utility incomer to the fire pump — the meters most Indian data centres deploy.

Main Incomer & UPS Output

One Titan on each utility incomer, one on each UPS output. Gives you utility-fed load vs protected load, and UPS round-trip efficiency per string.

PDU & Rack-Level Metering

Titan on each PDU or per-rack feed. Feeds colocation billing and DCIM. Harmonic logging flags transformer heating before the alarm fires.

Cooling Plant — Chillers, CRACs, CRAHs

Titan Plus BTU on chilled-water loops for kW/TR and COP trending. Titan on CRAC/CRAH feeders for airflow-vs-power correlation.

Ancillaries & Fire Pumps

Titan Compliance on fire-pump feeders for automated NFPA 25 test logging — required for Tier III/IV certification. Titan on lighting, BMS, and generator feeders closes the loop.

PUE, COP, and the numbers that matter

Data-centre efficiency boils down to two ratios: PUE (total facility power ÷ IT power) and chiller COP (cooling delivered ÷ electrical input). Both require continuous, synchronous measurement — snapshot readings from clamp-on audits are close to useless because the values drift hourly with ambient, IT load, and UPS configuration.

Our typical DC deployment: Titan on the utility incomer, UPS inputs and outputs, and each PDU. Titan Plus BTU on the chilled-water loops for COP. Titan on every CRAC/CRAH feeder for airflow-per-watt. Data flows to our Energy Intelligence Platform or directly into your DCIM via Modbus TCP / MQTT / BACnet.

For colocation operators, the same Titan is also the billing meter — Class 0.5S accuracy satisfies the contract, and pulse outputs integrate with the colo billing platform. One meter family covers internal efficiency tracking AND customer billing, which is what operators typically end up wanting anyway.

Frequently asked questions

Six questions DC facility managers and colocation operators ask before spec.

PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) = Total Facility Energy / IT Equipment Energy. You need two continuous measurements: (1) total facility kWh at the utility incomer, (2) IT kWh — ideally at the UPS output or PDU inputs. Divide (1) by (2). Values below 1.5 are excellent for Indian climate; 1.8–2.2 is typical for legacy facilities. Our meters feed both measurements to the platform which calculates hourly and monthly PUE automatically.
A Class 0.5S per-rack or per-cage meter — Tech OVN Titan fits both. Class 0.5S (IEC 62053-22) gives ±0.5% accuracy which is the threshold most colocation contracts demand. CT-based installation means you can retrofit live racks without cutover. Pulse output + Modbus TCP + MQTT mean you can feed the colo billing system and the DCIM at the same time, without separate meters.
Yes if you care about PUE or want to optimise the cooling plant. A single incomer meter gives you total facility load but tells you nothing about where the inefficiency sits. Sub-meter the chiller plant, the CRAC/CRAH feeders, the UPS input and output, and you can see: utility-to-UPS losses, UPS-to-IT delivery efficiency, cooling overhead per IT kW, and seasonal drift.
Yes. All Titan meters publish Modbus TCP, RS485 Modbus RTU, and MQTT — so every major DCIM (Sunbird, Nlyte, Schneider EcoStruxure, Vertiv Trellis, Device42) can poll or subscribe directly. No gateway hardware needed. We also support BACnet/IP via a small translation module for BMS-first deployments.
Titan Plus BTU measures chilled-water thermal flow (cooling kW) AND the chiller's electrical input (kW) in one device, so kW/TR and COP compute on-device. This is the single most useful metric for a chiller plant — you see efficiency degradation within days instead of discovering it during the annual audit. For a 500 TR plant, a 1% COP improvement saves roughly ₹5–8 lakh/year at commercial tariff.
For Tier III / Tier IV certification and most insurance policies, yes — NFPA 25 requires weekly, monthly, and annual fire-pump tests with documented results. Most data centres do these manually and maintain logbooks. Titan Compliance monitors the pump 24/7, automatically logs every test with duration and parameters, alerts the facility manager on missed tests, and generates an inspector-ready PDF — removing the logbook compliance risk entirely.

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