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SmartPower alternatives

  • Granola

  • PROGRAM DISCONTINUED (see project's home page)

    tags: Discontinued power-management energy-saving save-energy power-saving
  • Jupiter Applet

  • Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux. It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection.

    tags: os-kernel fedora tuning netbook acpi
  • Laptop Mode Tools

  • Laptop Mode Tools is a package of userspace scripts for Linux kernel "laptop mode".

    tags: battery-saver power-management intel save-energy amd
  • upower

  • UPower is an abstraction for enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics. Any application or service on the system can access the org.freedesktop.UPower service via the system message bus. Some operations (such as suspending the system) are restricted using PolicyKit. UPower was once called DeviceKit-power. UPower aims to make a large chunk of HAL redundant, as HAL is officially deprecated.

    tags: unix power-management power-saving
  • Auto StandBy Pro

  • With successful digital media revolution, people are now capable of using desktops and systems on daily basis to perform different types of computational tasks, internet uses and posting new articles on the personal blogs. For those fresh and layman users that are not capable of administering and managing the power management capabilities of the system, Auto StandBy Pro is an excellent tool which will give you the ease and convenience. Of course, this brilliant software has been designed in a specific manner which takes care of your power needs and computers usage statistics. »

    tags: automatic-shutdown hibernate restart rule-based
  • Boray POWer

  • Boray POWer is a reliable tool that allows you to adjust your PC power plans automatically depending on your computer’s activity. With the aid of a slide bar, one is free to set idle time for system power plan and select any amongst them, ranging from a high performance to a balanced or a power saving one. Also, depending on your requirements, the option to temporarily lock the computer in high performance or power saving mode is readily accessible.

    tags: Discontinued power-saving
  • Faronics Power Save

  • Faronics Power Save is an effective and reliable energy conservation tool that accurately manages energy consumption throughout ain a multiple workstation environment and significantly cuts down on energy expenditures. Power Save offers flexible options for determining when a computer is inactive (by CPU usage, hard drive usage or by running applications—not just keyboard and mouse movement), and only shuts computers down when they are inactive for a specified amount of time. As well, Power Save can schedule shutdown, start-up, and wake events by day, weekend, weekday, or a specific date. Faronics Power Save provides central reporting, configuration management, deployment, and control across an enterprise via Faronics Core Console. »

    tags: power-management system-utilities energy-saving power-saving pc-power-management-software
  • Lights-Out

  • An add-in to Windows Server that saves electricity (and therefore money).

    tags: ecofriendly money-saving power-consumption power-management power-saving
  • Verdiem

  • Verdiem delivers enterprise-class IT energy management & efficiency solutions for PCs, Macs, and Cisco EnergyWise devices – providing greater energy savings and IT efficiency.

    tags: power-management save-energy energy-saving efficiency