Data centre monitoring systems are becoming vital as energy consumption keeps rising and the demands to keep systems running reliably becomes critical to businesses survival.

Data centre monitoring systems  based on a wireless sensor network  allow important parameters such as temperature, humidity, wetness and airflow to be easily and continuously monitored.

 

Temperature/humidity monitoring

Temperature/humidity battery powerd sensors are shown fitted at the top, middle and bottom of each rack. This is a typical arrangement which allows the variation in parameters across a rack  to be monitored.

The combined sensors connect wirelessly with a wireless router device. In this case up to 16 sensors can connect to each router.

The router then connects wirelessly with a gateway device. The gateway device can operate as a local data logger and/or forward data to the existing IT network via an Ethernet connection. In this case each gateway supports up to 75 routers.

Each WC-21 FFD can support up to 16 WC21-SH1 RFDs

 

Power quality & consumption monitoring

 

Power meters are shown distributed across the data centre allowing power consumption to be measured for IT and non-IT loads. This provides basic data for efficiency calculations or to investigate individual equipment performance levels.

Each power meter is characterised to communicate with an associated wireless router. The routers then transmit consumption data to a central gateway.

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Power circuit status monitoring

 

Wireless digital input devices allow individual circuit level status monitoring. In the example shown each module allows up to 32 individual inputs to be monitored. The status signals are transmitted wirelessly to a router device and then forwarded to the wireless network gateway.

Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle Data Centre Environmental Monitoring

Hot aisle/cold aisle containment systems are a popular approach to efficient data centre cooling. However various factors can lead to deteriation in efficiency e.g. rack layout moves, missing floor tiles. Wireless data centre monitoring systems enable real time continuous monitoring for early detection of changes and minimisation of energy waste or hot spot issues.

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Combining CFD modeling and realtime wireless measurements the performance and running costs of a data centre can be significantly improved.