To say that it is necessary to control electricity consumption is obvious. Any big company, small company, even all of us at home check at least the "electricity bills". In addition, in the industry, electricity consumption is not a negligible expense, however, having information such as "this month I consumed more than last month" is often not helpful enough when implementing improvements.
We have already seen how integrating Zabbix with network analyzers such as Circutor
(https://www.muutech.com/en/monitoring-of-electrical-consumption-with-zabbix-and-circutor/) makes possible to monitor in real time very valuable information that allows us to improve the energy efficiency of our company and reduce such costly bills.
YAnd now that we have all that data, is it possible to get more information from it?
Zabbix and other network analyzers.
There are a multitude of platforms and consumption analysis devices on the market that can be perfectly integrated with Zabbix. We will analyze how to integrate 2 devices representative of different manufacturers: Schneider COMX510 and Sennet DL172
Schneider COMX510 (manual -
https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_enDocType=User+guide&p_File_Name=DOCA0098EN-09_ComX510_UserManual_EN.pdf&p_Doc_Ref=DOCA0098EN)
This is a Schneider energy server focused on working as a gateway and datalogger of different consumption sensors such as impulse meters or network analyzers (such as the Schneider IEM3255). One of the communication alternatives provided is Modbus TCP, so we can configure Zabbix to use this option.
We will configure a Zabbix template where we define different items for the IEM3255 that will be connected to the gateway: