Patent Document ID: 20110172937
Application ID: 12936919
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for energy consumption monitoring in an ICT environment, wherein said ICT environment ( 1 ) includes a multitude of energy consuming components ( 2 , 3 ), at least partly said components ( 2 , 3 ) being instrumented with means for energy consumption monitoring and/or having assigned specific energy consumption models that derive one or more energy metrics for the respective component ( 2 , 3 ) from said component's ( 2 , 3 ) current performance metrics, characterized in the steps of ascertaining changes of and/or related to said ICT environment ( 1 ) by means of an energy consumption monitoring controller ( 7 ), performing an assessment of available energy consumption monitoring techniques both instrumentation-based and model-based, based on the result of said assessment selecting one or more energy consumption monitoring techniques that best satisfy said change of said ICT environment ( 1 ) according to predefined policies.