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Server rooms are the beating heart of modern businesses, housing servers, storage, and networking equipment that keep enterprises operational 24/7. However, these critical facilities are highly vulnerable to one often-overlooked threat: water leaks. Whether caused by faulty plumbing, HVAC system malfunctions, or external flooding, even minor water leakage can result in catastrophic damage to equipment, server downtime, and massive financial losses.

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It has always been important to monitor data centre and server room temperatures. A sudden temperature rise can indicate failure of a cooling system component – air conditioner, CRAC or CRAH unit, a change in the IT load configuration or worst case a fire incident.

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Data centres and server rooms are dynamic environments. A ‘steady-state’ of operation is not always achievable due to server utilisation, environmental factors, planned maintenance, system downtime and emergencies. Smaller data centres and server rooms tend to have less investment in redundant systems and can be more susceptible to outages caused by a critical system failure or sudden changes in their operating environment.

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Data centres provide managed and controlled environments in which to run IT servers and networks. Whether the data centre is an on-premise enterprise or cloud providing colocation facility, environmental monitoring is critical to its availability and energy efficiency. Whilst no two data centres are the same, there can be shared best practices in terms of the most commonly monitored environmental factors and critical infrastructure systems.

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For environmental monitoring installations the traditional approach has been to monitor temperature and humidity with alert notifications sent via email. If a client wanted to receive an SMS text message, this has generally been achieved through the addition of a dedicated modem to the installation with an appropriate SIM card.

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The new Digital Temperature & Air Flow sensor from Avtech tackles two of the biggest environmental monitoring issues in computer rooms – what is the temperature and is the air conditioner working?

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Whether you operate a small server room or a large data centre, your biggest operating cost will be electricity. The energy used to not only power your servers and IT network but for the cooling, uninterruptible power supplies, lighting, and any other electrical devices within your facility.

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Server rooms and data centres are designed to provide secure, managed, and controlled environments in which to run IT operations. In order to ensure uptime and availability, it is importance to have a suitable environmental monitoring system in place but what should you monitor and how should the data collected be reported and acted upon?

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We are often asked how best to protect a server room or data centre in terms of environmental monitoring. Our recommended approach to the environmental monitoring of a critical IT environments is to consider the protection level required and then to work through the number of sensors, base units and notifications required. Following this process helps our projects tema to define the specific monitoring solution required from the wide range of base untis, sensors and software packages we supply.

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In this product update we introduce a new feature in the online monitoring portal for Room Alert environment monitoring devices ideal for server room and data centre managers. The new feature is an option in the reports section to overlay ASHRAE environmental recommendations, specifically for temperature and humidity.

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All server rooms and data centres require an environmental monitoring solution to ensure they provide a managed and secure environment in which to run critical IT servers, storage, and network devices. Without this type of monitoring solution, they are at risk of downtime, resulting primarily from temperature, humidity, and water leakage problems.

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Whether you need to monitor a data centre’s environment for power, cooling or security, new wireless monitoring solutions offer a range of cost, data acquisition and management benefits that could just swing the balance the next time you need to gather environmental monitoring data to manage your critical data centre infrastructure.

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A Digital Twin is way to model and replicate the behaviour and processes of a physical data centre. The technology has gained popularity in recent years because it can be used to simulate operational scenarios and predict performance, energy efficiency and reliability.

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Fulfilment and warehouse distribution centres are critical to the successful operation of any ecommerce and distribution-based business. Computer and automation systems play a vital role to such organisations, with most having temperature, humidity and water leakage monitoring system within their server rooms or data centres. It can be as important to extend these monitoring systems to include the stores and distribution areas within their supply chains. Failure to monitor warehouses can lead to unexpected disruption to operations and losses in the form of damage to stock and inventory caused by poor temperature controls, a build-up of humidity and water leakage.

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In a server room or data centre environment, critical infrastructure systems provide the managed and controlled environment in which to run IT operations. The two most critical being power and cooling, followed by emergency protection systems including fire suppression.