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News Release from: Adaptive Wireless Solutions | Subject: Sensing allows data centres to manage cooling
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 April 2008
Wireless sensor network helps data
centres
Adaptive Wireless Solutions new approach to sensing allows data centres to manage cooling and keep computers running.
The power demands of newer high density computing equipment and the need to keep them cool are growing exponentially This is causing major problems in terms of power supply capacity and environmental concerns
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 4 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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There is growing awareness of the need to improve monitoring in data centres to help identify hot spots where cooling is most critical.
By directing air flow more effectively better use can be made of the existing cooling capacity.
One key difficulty has been the lack of enough flexible temperature monitoring points in the facility to check performance in detail and raise alerts when hot spots arise.
Traditional wired approaches can be too expensive and inflexible.
To solve this problem Adaptive Wireless Solutions uses a wireless sensor mesh network which is easy and quick to install with minimal disruption and allows monitoring points to be moved around and added without having to re-commission the whole network.
Data collected by the sensors is fed back to the OnCall data analysis application which can be configured to raise alarms when limits are exceeded as well as logging the temperature data for further analysis.
Alternatively, data from the wireless system can easily be interfaced with existing infrastructure monitoring systems if required.
In a recent data centre installation for an oil company in the Middle East the sensing network quickly highlighted a potential overheating situation which enabled advance remedial action to be taken avoiding the cost of equipment repair and the impact on computing availability.
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