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Recent trends toward dense blade computing, server virtualization and load balancing contribute to increased rack power densities and introduce dynamic hot spots in the data center. With data center operators spending approximately 50% of their operational budget on cooling, gaining increased and finer grain visibility into rack-level thermal gradients, humidity levels, computer room air handling units (CRAHs), and under floor tile air flow is critical to failure prevention and energy savings. Gartner Research estimates that data centers typically waste more than 60% of the energy they use to cool.1 Increasingly, enterprise and data center managers want better visibility into thermal profiles and power management and require a solution that is easy to integrate and manage within their existing IT infrastructure.
Arch Rock Energy Optimizer™ is a fast, non-disruptive way to deploy a wireless sensor solution that provides fine-grained visibility and continuous monitoring of power usage along with thermal conditions resulting in more efficient cooling and power consumption. Proactive detection of overheating problems results in lower maintenance costs and longer asset life, while Arch Rock IP-enabled WSN solutions allow for easy installs and remote monitoring from anywhere.
Benefits
- Arch Rock Energy Optimizer is ideal for data center facility managers who desire an out-of-band, power-independent monitoring network not having to connect to the network infrastructure
- The Arch Rock IPpower Node AC power sensor provides power consumption down to the rack level, making it easy to calcualte and track key data center performance metrics such as PUE and DCIE.
- The reliable PhyNet wireless mesh provides an out-of band monitoring network crucial for production datacenters when re-configuration downtime is not an option
- The flexibility of wireless PhyNet nodes enables easy re-positioning of sense points where and when needed in the data center, not possible with wired alternatives
- The IP-based wireless PhyNet architecture enables local monitoring or accessibility anywhere in the world
Solution Elements
Visualization and Analysis
- An energy visibility portal and analysis tool
- Deployment Map of Data Center
- Charts of continuous sensor readings for trend analysis
Integrated sensor types
- IPpower Nodes - Multi-circuit AC power submeters
- IPthermal Nodes
- IPthermal XT - up to six external temperature probes, built-in temp. and humidity
- IPthermal HT - up to three external humidity and temperature probes, plus built-in temp. and humidity
- IPthermal CF - Chiller water temp. supply and return, external flow meter input, built-in temp. and humidity
IPpressure Node - up to three differential pressure probes
- IPsensor node - Temperature, Humidity and Light
External sensor types
- Dynasonics Ultrasonic Clamp-On Flow Meter. Series TFXL -- pulse output models
- Open/Close Contact
PhyNet Management Features
- Email threshold alerts
- Vital network statistics
PhyNet Data Services
- Web services APIs enable quick integration into existing data center monitoring applications:
- WSDL, XML, SOAP/REST, PostgreSQL
- Local or remote database store
PhyNet Mesh Networking
- Triply-redundant mesh routing for all nodes
- Battery or USB powered nodes
- On-board temperature and humidity sensors
1 Gartner Inc. Press Release, November 28, 2006
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