Flagship product
Acquaintia: power management for every Windows PC.
Idle PCs sleep outside business hours, wake before people arrive and stay on for the work that matters. Then Acquaintia estimates the energy, cost and carbon behind every hour, PC by PC. One agent on each PC, one server you run.
Four capabilities. One agent.
- Power policies Business hours, after-hours schemes and maintenance windows.
- A scheme for business hours, and a stricter one after
- Critical processes and maintenance windows
- An end-of-day action that warns first
- Wake-on-LAN Wake PCs on demand, before the day starts, or for maintenance.
- Wake one PC, a group or a whole location
- Auto-wake before business hours
- Wake for maintenance windows, and a record of every request
- Energy and carbon reporting Estimated kWh, cost and CO2e against your tariffs and baseline.
- Estimated kWh, cost and CO2e for every PC
- Your tariffs and carbon factors
- Eight reports and baselines, exported as CSV
- Device visibility Power state, hardware, locations and directory sync.
- Power state and hardware inventory
- A location tree, and rules that place PCs
- Active Directory sync over LDAP
Everything that’s included.
Power management
- Business hours with separate business and after-hours power schemes
- Monitor, disk, sleep and hibernate timeouts, on mains and battery
- Idle detection from keyboard and mouse, per signed-in session
- Critical processes that keep a PC awake
- Presentation Mode for calls and presentations
- Maintenance windows
- End-of-day action with a five-minute warning and a one-hour defer
- Lid, power-button and sleep-button actions
Wake
- Auto-wake before business hours
- Wake for maintenance windows
- Wake-on-LAN on demand, for one PC, a group or a location
- Wake history
- Remote sleep, hibernate, shut down and restart
Visibility and organisation
- Power state and last check-in for every PC
- Hardware inventory, including monitors
- Location tree, with tariffs inherited down it
- Placement rules on sixteen criteria
- Active Directory sync of computers, users, groups and OUs
- Archive and restore
Energy and reporting
- Wattage profiles by make and model, system type and monitor
- Suppliers and tariffs, single rate or day and night
- A carbon factor on every tariff
- Baselines, chosen or created monthly, quarterly or yearly
- Eight reports, saved and shared, exported as CSV
- Dashboard and Smart Alerts
Security and administration
- Multi-factor sign-in, which you can require
- Nineteen permissions and six role templates
- Client certificates for every agent
- Secrets protected with Windows DPAPI
- Optional AI assistant, off by default, on your own Azure OpenAI
Deployment
- Agent for 64-bit Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server 2016 or later
- A silent MSI for Group Policy, Intune or Configuration Manager
- Server on your own Windows server, with IIS and SQL Server
- Agent version tracking
See Acquaintia on PCs like yours.
Book a demo and we’ll show you the policies, wake, reports and rollout, set up the way you would use them.