This week, it’s Big Energy Saving week. And even though it’s a campaign that raises awareness about wasted energy and encourages people to look at how they can save it at home, it doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways for businesses to benefit too. Because every company likes to save money, don’t they?
So here’s the question: do you know how much your business wastes on energy costs?
The average business will know how much they spend each month or quarter on power but will have very little idea how much of that total is wasted on devices and systems being left powered on but unused.
Here’s where NetSupport DNA can help. Its Energy Monitor checks whether your computers are powered-on or off – and its local monitoring component keeps an accurate record of each time a computer is powered on, off or hibernates.
Once it has recorded the times of day each computer was being used, it uses an average “power consumption per device” calculation to work out a baseline rate of energy use for all of the computers across your business.
Armed with this information, you can use the Power Management feature to set policies to power on or shut down PCs at specific times of the day. There are also rules you can apply to sleep/log out/power off systems if they’ve been inactive for a specified length of time. Plus, you can apply different policies to different departments.
So many businesses could begin to make incremental savings like this, if they were aware of their energy use patterns. Even smaller savings mount up over time – if you’ve ever put coins into a jar each week and counted them when it’s full, you’ll know!
Find out more about how NetSupport DNA can help your business, right here.