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dashboards can communicate current energy efficiency to interested IT team
members just as the hybrid automobiles constantly remind the driver with
dashboard gas mileage graphics. The real-time dashboard can give the IT
team immediate feedback on how data center energy management techniques
impact data center energy use, just as the hybrid automobile gas mileage
dashboard gave me immediate feedback on how my driving technique
impacted automobile energy use.

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Source: IBM Montpelier PSSC Green Data Center Team
Figure 11.6 Montpelier Green Data Center Smartbank—solution-level monitoring
Innovation at the PSSC data center is summarized in the following list:

■ Web camera showing the implemented technologies.
■ A solution to track people and assets.
■ Dynamic and graphic visualization of the temperature, pressure, and
humidity in the green data center.
■ A thermal camera to visualize hot spots at the server and rack-room
levels.
■ A modelization and visit of the data center in Second Life.