27 November 2017

Enlogic says its recently launched EE Sensor Pod devices allow environment monitoring and rack access management to be retrofit into a data centre location without replacing the PDU estate.

The devices can be horizontally mounted, use 1U space, and ship with mounting brackets. Some feature a C19 outlet port for power and energy metering which Enlogic claims offers “high accuracy” of +/-1 per cent.

The EE Sensor Pod has 24 physical ports allowing connection and monitoring of up to 24 physical sensing devices, or monitoring of up to 32 virtual sensing points.

For instance, Enlogic says it could be used to support eight of its EA9105 sensors. This offers three sensing points for temperature and one for humidity and therefore consumes four sensing points in total. Alternatively, the unit could accommodate 24 EA9102 temperature sensors.

Other sensors supported include ones for dry contact cables, door, smoke, spot leak, and rope leak.

The company adds that the pod can also be used to manage and monitor its HID rack access solution, offering security, logging and alerts to eight racks with locks front and rear. Sensor devices can be mixed within the installation but Enlogic points out that they cannot exceed 32 virtual points per sensor pod.