Power Measurement
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency(NASA) has installed an enterprise energy management system to control power usage and reduce costs at its Ames Research Center facility near San Francisco. Designed by Jacobs/Sverdrup Technology, the Ames Power
Monitoring System (APMS) monitors power usage throughout the center, including
the facility's three large wind tunnels, used regularly for aeronautic
research and development testing. The system, manufactured byPower
Measurement(Victoria, BC), uses ION(R) Enterprise(TM) software installed on over a dozen PC workstations combined with approximately a hundred ION 7330(TM) and ION
7700(TM) meters (at full implementation), to help facility personnel manage
and schedule real-time and future energy usage.