Patent Document ID: 8401807
Application ID: 12936919
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. Method for energy consumption monitoring in an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) environment, wherein said ICT environment ( 1 ) includes a multitude of energy consuming electrically-powered components ( 2 , 3 ) that have instruments for energy consumption monitoring and have energy consumption models that derive one or more energy consumption metrics for the respective component ( 2 , 3 ) from said component's ( 2 , 3 ) current performance metrics, the method comprising the steps of: ascertaining changes related to said ICT environment ( 1 ) using an energy consumption monitoring controller ( 7 ); performing an assessment of available energy consumption monitoring techniques that use at least one of (a) the instruments for energy consumption monitoring and (b) the energy consumption models; and based on the result of said assessment selecting one or more of the energy consumption monitoring techniques that best satisfy said change of said ICT environment ( 1 ) according to predefined energy consumption monitoring policies that specify parameters according to which the result is analyzed.