SPARA Power

The Worlds First PC Power Management Solution based on Artificial Intelligence

Internationally acclaimed and recognized as the Worlds Only Artificially Intelligent distributed Power Management system, accepted and distributed in various parts of the Globe, SPARA Power addresses and solves every single issue which is faced. Using the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, a technology which helps machines and computers mimic the thought processes and intelligence of human beings, this cutting edge product virtually replicates an ever alert person assigned to do one job - SAVE POWER

SPARA Power is developed and maintained by the creators of SPARA Power Management Technology. All mentions of SPARA in this document henceforth would refer to SPARA Power

TABLE OF CONTENTS The World, As We See It........................................................................................................ 1 How much is this Loss?.................................................................................................. 1 What was stopping a solution?..................................................................................... 2

SPARA Power | The Power Savior....................................................................................... 3 How does it Work?.......................................................................................................... 5 Artificial Intelligence in SPARA..................................................................................... 7

SPARA Power The Product............................................................................................... 9 Intelligent Wake On LAN (WOL)................................................................................. 10 SPARA Power v1.8 Architecture................................................................................ 12 Power Savings............................................................................................................... 14 Current Track Record................................................................................................... 15 The Achievement.......................................................................................................... 15

The World, As We See It

One true shortage we see around us is the shortage of Power. It is one resource which never seems to catch up with the demand, and that makes it the biggest reason for todays need to save and conserve power. Unlike popular belief, the biggest power guzzlers are not the manufacturing plants or the temperature dependant industry. In reality they would be the IT/ITES companies and other computer-intensive organizations, which bite up a large chunk of the power painfully generated. One could easily blame this on the large number of ACs, Computers, peripherals and other electrical devices compounded by the sheer number of people involved in these segments. The 4 Critical Questions: IS ALL HOPE LOST? Is there anything that we can do to solve the power demandsupply gap? Should we explore new ways to satisfy the power demand by adding more power generation facilities? OR Should we try to SAVE power by reducing/eliminating the

A Lawrence and Berkeley National Labs independent study puts the losses due to computers and its peripherals alone at over 26% of the worlds losses just due to the sheer volume and the negligent behaviour of the people who uses these machines. In todays IT enabled world, there literally is nothing which cant be run without the help of these power guzzlers. The IT departments as well as all the agencies that use this, simply bow down to this wastage by considering it a collateral damage. The high maintenance efforts and the brute variations in how each agency works, just makes it impossible for any hard coded solution to solve the problem. Customizing a solution for each agency is not commercially possible due to the huge number of agencies present in todays world.

How much is this Loss?

According to the statistics brought out by the L&B labs, almost 90% of people in an office do not power down their PCs when they leave office for their breaks. Again almost 40% just turn off their monitors when they leave office for the day. Worst ever, around 10% do not even bother to do that. This statistic when averaged out, roughly translates to around 25-45% of the power lost per PC in a PC based environment. Taking the lower figure into consideration, it is quite easily inferable that if this is saved, we get to run a fourth PC with the same power requirement as that of just three PCs.

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A different view point to this same equation would be that if one needs to increase the office capacity by around 25%, the power requirement option could be either to pull extra resources from the grid amounting to over 31% of the power being used anyway taking the total power requirement to 131% of the current requirement. Another alternative would be to find a way to save the power from the existing machines. The issue does not end here since this figure keeps on increasing almost drastically and the only way one can fuel this need is by building more and more power generation facilities at much higher costs. But building these facilities and adding more PCs to the network will ensure an increase in the losses too. So the question remains,
WHY cant we plug the hole, through which the power generated keeps leaking?

What was stopping a solution?

Be it an IT company or the Government, there are usually a ton of different departments under them, who would further have sub departments and divisions. At the lowest end, there would a load of people of various knowledge, skill set, character and background using the PCs. Looking at this structure and realizing that every department, division and person has its own characteristics gives us potentially an infinite different type of working methodology and timings. All the usual scheduled or pre-defined management systems would simply be overwhelmed by these variations. The only way to overcome this problem was to rein in the human factor into the loop by keeping Humans at each level of variations to command and oversee the power management. But how effective can these solutions be? How reliable are people when kept in a monotonous job? What would be the overheads by adopting such a system? Questions like and problems like the later were the main reason why the wastage of power was forever considered a curse of technology. Combine this already adamant problem with the seriously high level of attrition in todays agencies. Even if a solution was implemented which was painstakingly customized for each and every single person, what would happen if one of the person got replaced? The problem just keeps getting aggravated till there is a total system breakdown. Does all this mean there is no solution for this pain?

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SPARA Power | The Power Savior

Internationally acclaimed and recognized as the Worlds Only Artificially Intelligent distributed Power Management system, accepted and distributed in various parts of the Globe, SPARA Power addresses and solves every single issue which is faced. Using the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, a technology which helps machines and computers mimic the thought processes and intelligence of human beings, this cutting edge product virtually replicates an ever alert person assigned to do one job To Save Power. The technology developed with funding from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, uses cutting edge Proprietary Pattern recognition algorithms to try and characterize each and every single person using the computers, and create customized power management profiles for the person, saving almost 91% of the power lost due to negligence. This technology has won various national and international awards including being listed amongst the Top 50 Innovative technologies having global impact by the World Bank; GOLD medal jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (Govt of India), FICCI, Lockheed Martin Corporation and The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum to name a few. The technologys capability to save power was repeatedly proven to various Large MNCs, Government Labs, Private labs, PSUs and other Agencies by reducing the power consumed by their PCs between 24 - 47%. The technology was proven even at government levels and has been accepted by them.
Note: SPARA Power is developed and maintained by the creators of SPARA Power Management Technology. All mentions of SPARA in this document would henceforth would imply to SPARA Power Page 3

THE 4 RULES OF SPARA POWER

SPARA Power was built around 4

KEY RULES

which came to stand as the backbone of the Technology as well as the consequence of the technology keeping in consideration only the end user

NO INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES:
SPARA Power shall in no way shall induce/ introduce any extra infrastructural changes into the system. SPARA Power shall work with whatever is present in the infrastructure and shall adapt if any changes are brought to it.

NO DOWN TIME:
SPARA Power shall in no way become the reason for loss of productivity either by itself or as a result of any malfunctioning. SPARA Power is equipped with a Panic Button, which if activated using just three Clicks, shall disable every single functionality of the product across the network thus ensuring that there be absolutely NO time wasted recovering from any malfunction.

NO HIDDEN COSTS:
SPARA Power shall not come with any hidden costs built into the product. The Product shall not require any extra human resource, nor will any training be required to be produced to the users. There shall be No periodical subscription costs or charges in the Product. The cost and the AMC is all that will be in what is spent on SPARA Power by the client.

NO ROI FORMULAS:
Unlike other Products in the market, there will not be any Formula to calculate the Return of Investment (ROI) of the product. The returns can be directly calculated using the reduction of the power consumed. This can be calculated both using external means as well as by using the internally provided reports and graphs.

Any Event or Action which occurs periodically or continuously over a period of time results in a pattern which is a function of probability - Probability Theory

How does it Work?

Artificial Intelligence & Predictive Analytics The above theory translates into the underlying concept of Artificial Intelligence and in turn of Predictive analytics. A.I is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent and adaptive computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. Predictive Analytics is the branch of Artificial Intelligence concerned with the prediction of future probabilities and trends. Predictive analytics are used to determine the probable future outcome of an event or the likelihood of a situation occurring. It automatically analyse large amounts of data with different variables; It includes clustering, decision trees, market basket analysis, regression modelling, neural nets, genetic algorithms, text mining, hypothesis testing, decision analytics, and more.

Figure 1:

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The decrease in probability variation also implies elimination of wastages... In simple words, More the confusion, more the wastage So, eliminate the confusion, to eliminate the wastage! This is EXACTLY what SPARA Power does

Predictive analytics indicates not only what to do, but also how and when to do it, and to explain the what-if scenarios. Figure 1 shows the advantage of a system coupled with a predictive correction algorithm in the case of a perfect prediction condition. Here the system is expected to have a value which is represented by the 0 point in the Y axis, but initially there is a huge irregularity in attaining this value since the available dataset for a prediction is not present. But as time goes on, the probability variation decreases since the predictive system is able to eliminate the uncertainty in the forward values. This allows for the system to prepare for whatever is the action it is supposed to take in the case of the expected event happening. Unlike what most people believe, the goal of a predictive system is not to predict the future or what could happen in the future. The goal is to effectively predict the chance of a particular event to happen. Prediction of this chance does not guarantee the event to happen, it merely tells us how much to expect for that event. It could quite easily be compared to the human instinct or thought process when it comes to taking a decision. The advantage is that if the event has a higher chance of occurrence, then preparing oneself for the consequence of that event would allow for a quicker and more effective solution This mode of operations enhances the capabilities of the normal sensor by moving it from an action step to data collection or acquisition equipment for the prediction step.

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Artificial Intelligence in SPARA

The core principle behind using Predictive modelling in saving power from devices used by people, lies in the concept of the biological clock inherent within everyone. This theoretical clock regulates every single person and attempts to synchronize them to their daily routine. Predicting or rigging a system to match this allows the system to blend into the persons characteristics. This is quite a natural phenomenon in humans and are clearly seen between people who work alongside each other only to find striking similarities amidst them in their daily routine. The concept behind SPARA Power was to re-create this synchronous symmetry between humans and machines to understand the characteristics of the person and use this data to save power when it is not required.

SPARA Power starts off by working like any other power management solution, by waiting for the fixed time intervals before taking any power management action. But during this time, it takes snapshots of the system calendar when certain events are triggered. Once a reasonable data set is collected, the AI engine crunches through the data to understand if there is any recognizable pattern in the users activities. Once found, this pattern is extrapolated forward using a statistical prediction model to create what we call a prediction chart. This chart which is a function of Probability gives the chance of a user to leave the machine in a power wastage mode with respect to the time of a day. On completion of the chart, the goal of the AI engine shifts from creating a chart towards optimizing it. Further patterns are also added to this prediction chart.
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Once a prediction chart is available, a detailed power management profile is generated corresponding to each user, which dictates how prepared the system should be during different times of the day. This along with the predicted power management action together forms the power management profile. Every day, this profile is updated to include the corrections made to the charts based on the previous days events. This allows for a continuously varying and self-correcting power management profile for the user. The advantage here is the fact that the more assured the system gets of a pattern, the lesser time it takes for before it sends the system into a power controlled state. Moreover, it also eliminates the irritation factor wherein which a system which runs on other power management mode goes into a power saving mode while in action. SPARA Power is able to understand that the system could still be in use even though there is no interaction between the user and the system. Eliminating this can have a huge impact since statistically, it is the biggest reason most people disable power management software. Moreover, it also ensures that power cycling does not happen, preventing long term damages to the hardware. The system takes into consideration the preferences or policies which are set by the administrator while finalizing on the power management profile thus allowing for the administrator to get involved in how the power is managed. Unlike any other system in the world, this allows the user to create DO NOT rules which asks the system not to do something. This is particularly useful when the system has to be kept on, regardless of its usage statistics. In short, SPARA Powers analytic capability indicates not only what to do, but also how and when to do it, and also explains what-if scenarios. It even obeys its master, making it the administrators best friend.

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SPARA Power The Product

SPARA Power Ver 1.8 is a Power Management System that uses Artificial Intelligence to eliminate wastage of power from computers. Based on principles of Artificial intelligence, SPARA Power aims directly at reducing the carbon footprint in the environment and reducing the operational expense by saving energy. It stretches boundaries in possibilities of power management and eliminates 91% of the regular power losses. For many years, power management solutions have claimed to make huge savings for fiscally challenged IT administrators. Claims of 10 to 15 % energy savings are regularly made, along with the corresponding CO2 emission reductions. However, in reality, these solutions do nothing more than enabling network administrators to enforce policies already available on each machine and force users to adopt predefined power management settings. These are not always suitable to the user workflow and hence the settings are often ignored, negating the benefits of the system deployed. These traditional solutions often apply only to machines and not users, limiting them to very basic power management policy enforcement. It operates by implementing power management profiles for every user. Variations in the users behavioural pattern is recorded and interpreted intelligently by SPARA. Once deployed, it is self-configuring software that saves power as often and as economically as possible. SPARA Power builds unique power management policies for each user and facilitates maximum productivity with minimal power usage and CO2 emissions. Its adaptive nature provides flexibility on eliminating administrator level monitoring and interference.

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Intelligent Wake On LAN (WOL)

A feature devised and implemented for large corporate organizations who may need to turn ON one or more of the computers in non-office hours for the purpose of installing patches, upgrades or updates. SPARAs Wake On LAN (WOL) is unique in that it allows the admin to schedule when a particular PC or group of PCs should turn on. These systems would automatically turn ON at the designated time.

SPARA WOL also enables the admin to manually switch on each PC or group of PCs via the Instant Control window.

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SPARA WOL has in built safety feature whereby it would prevent the overloading of the UPS with the surge in voltage caused by a large number of PCs turning ON at the same time. A delay is activated automatically when more number of PCs are scheduled to or manually commanded to turn ON at the same time. This splits the spike in voltage to more manageable levels.

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SPARA Power v1.8 Architecture

SPARA Power is based on a modified Client Server architecture. The main modification is the independence of the client to accomplish its critical goals of saving power and performing the required analysis for prediction purposes. Other than in certain critical situations like licensing and configuration alterations, the server module can be eliminated from the architecture thus enabling the system to save the power which is required to run the server component. The communication is also designed in such a way as not to interfere with the existing intranet, both in terms of infrastructure as well as in traffic/ utilization. The Software consists of an Admin module which act as the Server, and a Client module which goes onto all the client machines. There exists a Database which holds the key value and is installed by default in the server module. The server module and the DB module are required only when certain operations are being performed like installations, licensing, configurations etc. The Client module which is a small agent which resides on each workstation in the network can be installed remotely or directly as per the administrators requirements. The client module is responsible for performing the power management procedures, as well as, takes into consideration the requests from the admin module. The Client is also equipped with a critical AI component which enables it to analyze and formulate power management plans for the work station it has been installed in. The monitoring and adaptability nature of the system is also a component of the client module. The Admin module on the other hand is designed to be an interaction console between the system and the administrator. It allows for the administrator to provide his preferences, set schedules, create groups, view reports as well as do administrative configurations of the system. Since all the critical modules are embedded within the client itself, there is no requirement to keep the admin console running thus allowing for the administrators machine/ server to be powered down if required after the office hours without affecting the power management capability of the client workstations. Installation of the SPARA Power module does not require any major changes in the infrastructure. Enabling access to the system and intermediate router to allow communication to port 40786 for UDP based data communication would probably be the only alteration being made to the network in case of a intranet installation. Client Installation can be automated using the Windows domain controller based remote installation or if the network is a non-Active Directory based, provided software can be used to automate the process. Server installation is also direct and has minimum values to be entered. The technology can also use the power of Internet and the Cloud if explicitly required by the client. This would allow the monitoring officials to view the power usage and statistics in realtime from anywhere in the world using any internet device they might have in their hand. Since this technology is not a part of the core product, the paranoia about Information Security can be left out of the system.

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Power Savings
Power saved is power generated. With the application of Artificial Intelligence, the elevated optimization levels of power management go full throttle alongside a continuous improvement process in prediction analytics. Once triggered to operation, energy wastage and carbon footprint capitulates as a dogged result of persistent learning.

Power Consumption Graph

SPARA Power Savings Graph

Researches held at the Lawrence & Berkley Labs on energy wastage from computers revealed statistics that substantiate the case of SPARA Power being a quintessential component towards saving power. A system with no power management scheme enforced, drains away close to 43% more than the actual consumption required. SPARA Power savings aggregates in the range of 90% - 95% of the wasted power. SPARA Power springs into action from the word GO. The initial level functioning is based on normal power management schemes and intelligence gets embedded as the learning curve condenses. Profiling of users, usage pattern and behavioural predictions enables the power savings mode to tune into being artificially intelligent.

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Current Track Record

SPARA Power in its various levels of testing, trials and implementations has shown brilliant amount of savings and have always surpassed our expectations when it comes to saving power. Some of the results are shown here (the detailed reports of some are attached at the end of this document) Company Tata Power Piramal Health Care Fidelity International Pfizer Inc Gemini Software Solutions EMC WayBeo Technologies Keltron NMMC
Average

Savings (in %) 37% 34% 47% 24% 28% 35% 39% 30.11% 33%
33%

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The Achievement
The goal of having a product like SPARA Power become part of the company promotion is not just to enable energy savings and thereby save money, but the beginning of empowering people towards a greener, cleaner tomorrow. Internationally, the Go Green campaign is gaining momentum amongst corporations and countries. This has been achieved by enlightening the common man in those locations about the necessity of the same. By adopting SPARA Power under its wings, the companies and in turn the governments would become the forerunner in enriching this powerful movement and later spread it to other parts of the other country. Strategically, this would put the company on the international technology map having sowed the seeds of the Go Green campaign adopting cutting edge technology for the same.

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