NCR Corporation
Uninterrupted power supply (UPS) with power management for self-service terminals (SSTs)

Abstract:

An Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) is provided. The UPS comprises Alternating Current (AC) power ports, communication ports, a battery to supply Direct Current (DC) power, a display, a surge controller, a wireless transceiver, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions. The executable instructions when executed by the processor gathers coarse-grain and fine-grain power consumption metrics for a terminal plugged into an AC power port and the battery. The metrics displayed on the display and provided to user-operated devices over the wireless transceiver. User-operated devices include user interfaces that customer configure the executable instructions of the UPS for custom gathering of the metrics, custom aggregation of the metrics, custom reporting the metrics, and custom displaying of the metrics on the display.