Torana energy management server

The “Torana” server provided a way to control IT devices from a campus environmental control system.  

Often these devices use little energy individually, but a fleet of hundreds or thousands of such devices wastes a large amount of energy in aggregate.  

Torana integrates Cisco’s EnergyWise protocol, providing a way to turn these devices off in groups, along with lighting, heating, and other building functions that adapt to usage patterns.

This provided about an 8% boost in energy savings in a typical project.  That’s not a lot by itself, but as an inexpensive add-on to an existing project, it made the difference on several wins.

The Torana was innovative enough to get a patent.