Systems and methods provide for managing a power consumption policy for a powered device. A network controller may be configured to receive power consumption information for a powered device (PD) connected to power sourcing equipment (e.g., a PSE device), calculate a predicted threshold for the PD based on the power consumption information for the PD, and transmit the predicted threshold for the PD to the PSE device. Power sourcing equipment is configured to calculate power consumption information for the PD, transmit the power consumption information for the PD to the network controller, receive a predicted threshold for the PD, and implement a power consumption policy for the PD based on the predicted threshold.