Patent ID: 8494661

Claim:
A power management system, comprising: a communications interface that sends/receives communications to/from a plurality of power distribution units (PDUs), the communications received from the PDUs including power usage data for each of a plurality of electrical outlets within each PDU; a memory that stores information related to electrical components that receive power from a group of electrical outlets, including information related to at least a first electrical component that receives power from at least a first and a second electrical outlet of the group of electrical outlets, the first outlet located at a first PDU and the second outlet located at a second PDU; a controller interconnected to the communications interface and memory that receives the power usage data from the PDUs, determines power that is consumed by one or more of the electrical components, and outputs information related to power that is consumed by at least the first electrical component based on aggregated power usage data from both the first and second PDUs.