Power distribution unit (PDU) for a distributed computing network

• Main Authors: Muhammad Faisal, Thomas Walter, Sergio Montenegro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: FRUCT 2017-11-01
• Series: Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT
• Subjects: Network; Fault-tolerance; Nano Satellites; Power Distribution Unit
• Online Access: https://fruct.org/publications/fruct21/files/Fai.pdf

A power distribution unit (PDU) is an electronic module which provides electrical power to the network of electronic devices. For modern distributed computing networks a smart PDU is required which does not only supply the power to all the attached units but also monitors current consumption and the load on each node. In this paper we presented the Hardware and Software module for an intelligent PDU which offers the capabilities to distribute the power and also supervise the current and load consumption and broadcast all it parameters to the administrator. This PDU is based on a state-of-the-art ARMCortex M4 microcontroller which is used under a Real time operating System. A real case scenario is presented at the end of this paper validating the hardware and software design of proposed PDU.