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FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
Temperature
technology for
data centres
improves quality
and performance
Data centres are
complying with innovative
standards and are
focusing on temperature
controls. Enhanced
features include wireless
thermal sensors, the
ability to track cooling
loads in real-time, energy
usage, heat outputs
and airflows.
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kkoSense, the UK-based data
centre thermal software and
services expert, has launched the
world’s first Internet of Things
(IoT) enabled wireless thermal sensor.
The new ultra-low-cost sensor disrupts
the traditional data centre sensor cost
model, enabling it to be deployed in such
vast numbers that true real-time thermal
management of critical facilities such as
data centres now becomes realistic.
The new EkkoSensor Wireless Temperature
and Humidity sensor features a local
display of the measured temperature
and relative humidity values, with
additional screens that can be cycled
through to show temperature profiles
over the last hour, 24 hours and seven
days for quick thermal assessment on
site. All temperature and humidity data
is encrypted with 128-bit AES encryption
before transmission to an EkkoHub
wireless data receiver for forwarding to
EkkoSense’s cloud-based EkkoSoft 3D
visualisation and analysis software.
“With cooling now representing 30%
of a data centre’s operating cost,
organisations are currently spending far
more than they need to on expensive
data centre cooling hardware, so there’s
a pressing requirement for thermal
performance optimisation. However, to
achieve this it’s essential for data centre
managers and their energy teams to
have access to much more granular
levels of data,” commented Paul Milburn,
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