30 January 2014
Global IT project management company PTS Consulting has successfully tested a European-based financial institution’s new data centre using RF Code’s innovative monitoring system.
RF Code specialises in real-time asset management and wire-free environmental monitoring solutions. Its active RFID-based solutions are said to be unique and claim to provide IT professionals with a more efficient, cost-effective approach to managing IT assets and keeping technology environments in an optimal state.
During the testing phase for the financial institution (which cannot be named), PTS needed a solution which could continually monitor the temperature and humidity of the new 40,000ft2 data centre in real-time. It also needed immediate alerts if any areas of the facility went outside the design parameters, as well as fast deployment due to a successful implementation stage bringing forward the testing dates.
Using RF Code’s environmental monitoring solution, PTS was able to see the live performance of each cold aisle zone and ensure each area was receiving its correct temperature. Real-time data was provided via RF Code Sensor Manager’s GUI, with data delivered from 150 sensors placed across the data centre.
The system ensured the data centre’s redundancy testing was validated, helped confirm humidity levels were within the tolerance bands set during the design phase, and provided actionable data when a thermal runaway outage occurred. Dashboards were also setup to provide PTS’ client a high-level overview of how the data centre was performing at each test.
PTS engineers had never used RF Code’s system before, but due to the ease of the solution they were able to deploy the necessary sensors within one working day. Software configuration and training was required, but only took one additional working day. RF Code also supported the deployment with technical onsite support and user training to guarantee timescales were met.
“Not having to review the data from 150 sensors post test meant we could sign-off the data centre with confidence,” says Craig Felton, senior data centre consultant at PTS. “On previous projects, we would have spent up to five days reviewing test data.”
