Managing The Energy Consumption of Edge Environments

Kevin Brown, SVP, EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power Division of Schneider Electric discusses the challenges of managing the energy consumption in the hybrid IT environment of edge sites. The answer is first to focus on whether everything is being utilised effectively on the demand side. To do this operators need to understand what applications and devices are driving this demand and are those devices necessary? In edge environment this extends beyond infrastructure devices into IOT devices. The technology roadmap is there to answer these questions it just has not been implemented yet.