Software-Based-Power-Meter-for-Data-Centers

In the era of cloud computing, data centers have emerged as possible solutions, without which a lot of our daily work could not function properly. Modern data centers consist of various components such as, communication and storage equipment, power supplies, air conditioning (HVAC) equipment and monitoring systems etc. Power plays a critical role in the data center. Because of the high demand for uninterrupted services, many data centers are equipped with redundant power supply units and backup systems. The main goal of our project is to measure the power of individual servers from the server rack in a data center. But without using a conventional power meter, we are using a different approach which utilizes the high-frequency switching operation (40 to 100 kHz) of the power factor correction circuit universally built in today’s server power supply units(PSU). By using DNN we will try to separate the mixed signature of all servers in a rack and then use the notion of PFC circuit to estimate the power of individual servers.