Financial Benefits

With SURVEYOR, you can take advantage of a simple cost-saving opportunity that many organizations overlook: the ability to eliminate the huge energy waste of PCs that are running at full power when no user is present. By using SURVEYOR to automatically put PCs into low power states when they’re not in use, you can save an average of £14 to £28 in wasted energy per PC per year, save additional energy costs during “peak demand” periods, and reduce facility-cooling costs - all without affecting user productivity.

SURVEYOR reduces your organization’s energy consumption

PCs and their monitors are voracious consumers of electricity, and their energy use is soaring to keep pace with faster processors, more RAM, and power hungry peripherals. The average PC consumes 650 kWh (kilowatt-hours) annually. (DTI) While most PCs have energy-saving settings such as standby, hibernate and shutdown, over 80% of users disable their low-power settings.¹ SURVEYOR solves this problem by giving managers network-level control over the power settings of all Microsoft Windows-based PCs, from Windows 95 to Vista. Network managers can easily configure and maintain PC power settings across distributed networks to automatically send PCs into low-power states as needed, saving an average of 200 kWh per PC yearly (half of the energy that is typically wasted, and a third of the energy that is usually consumed).² That’s a cost savings of £14 to £28 per PC annually, depending on local electricity rates and because SURVEYOR has built-in measurement capabilities, these network-wide energy savings can be verified.

A 5,000-PC network uses 3 million kWh annually on average; at electricity rates ranging from £0.07 to £0.14 per kWh, the cost to power this size of network is £210,000 to £420,000 yearly.

Average Four-Year Cost Savings of Using SURVEYOR to Eliminate PC Energy Waste

In addition to energy savings, many customers realize productivity gains because IT personnel no longer spend time walking around shutting off PCs after hours, or implementing ineffective behavior modification programs that are designed to get users to save energy by putting their computers into standby mode whenever they go out for a meeting or lunch. And network managers no longer need to spend time turning PCs on when they want to perform software updates or other maintenance tasks, since SURVEYOR can awaken PCs on command in certain situations.

1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, After-Hours Power Status of Office Equipment Report No. 53729, January 2004
2. Advanced Energy, Demonstration of SURVEYOR Software Implementation and Economic Feasibility, Final Report; August 2004. The Bonneville Power Administration also validated that SURVEYOR saves 200 kWh per PC/monitor combination annually, which is the average savings realized by Verdiem customers.