Per-Application Energy Cost Dashboard for IT Fleet Management
A typical desktop PC consumes 200–400W and costs $120–$180/year in electricity. WattSeal demonstrates demand for per-application power monitoring with its open-source Rust-based desktop tool. The underserved market: IT departments managing 50–500 workstations that need fleet-level visibility into energy costs, carbon reporting for ESG compliance, and automated alerts when specific applications consume excessive power.
Problem Statement
An IT manager oversees 200 workstations at a mid-size company. The electricity bill for desktop computing is $24,000/year but nobody knows which applications drive the cost. A developer running 3D rendering software uses 350W continuously. An accountant with Chrome open and 40 tabs uses 180W. A receptionist's workstation idles at 90W. The IT manager cannot identify which teams, applications, or workstations are the biggest energy consumers. When the CFO asks for the IT department's carbon footprint for ESG reporting, the IT manager has no data. Current approach: estimate using average wattage × hours — inaccurate and useless for optimization.
The Idea
An IT fleet energy management dashboard that aggregates per-application power consumption data from employee workstations, calculates department-level energy costs and carbon footprints, identifies energy-wasting applications across the fleet, and generates ESG-compliant sustainability reports, turning WattSeal's per-device monitoring into organizational intelligence.
Why Now
EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now requires companies with 250+ employees to report Scope 2 emissions including IT infrastructure energy use. WattSeal proved that per-application power monitoring works using RAPL (Intel/AMD CPUs) and NVML (NVIDIA GPUs), open-source, near-zero overhead, Rust-based.
Target User
IT managers and sustainability officers at companies with 50–500 employees who need fleet-level visibility into desktop energy consumption for cost optimization and ESG compliance reporting
Target Market
IT energy management and corporate sustainability reporting for mid-market companies
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