Data Room Temperature and Data Room Security
Google says that when it comes to data room temperature we can raise the temperature to 80 degrees!
Most data rooms are kept between 68-72. Did you know that data center managers could save 4 percent in energy costs for every degree of upward change in the set point? This is according to Mark Monroe of Sun Microsystems.
Expand Your Monitoring Capabilities With SecurityProbe
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Security Monitoring and Environmental Monitoring all in one device. The securityProbe allows you to monitor temperature, monitor humidity, monitor airflow, monitor smoke, etc. It can also provide a security solution with dry contacts and motion detection with alarms.
How to Monitor Car Storage Environments
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As a car aficionado, I love the idea of storing precious vehicles in the harshest of winter months, especially in a state like Maine. If I had my dream car (ahem, BMW M5) I would certainly put it in a place I know would keep my car safe from any harm. The question is, “How does a storage facility keep my car safe?” What precautions would it take to make sure Annabelle is safe? (yes, I named my fictional car) Implementing environmental sensors will certainly make me feel safe. Read more
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Preventing Disasters With Environmental Probes
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Environmental sensors prevent disasters. Have you ever been in a situation where you lose a server or all of your data center to something as silly as a water leak or a… lightening strike? Amazon has, sort of. On August 7th, Amazon experienced a temporary data center outage in their Dublin data center. They claimed that it was due to a lightening strike, but later admitted it was due to multiple internal technical faults, resulting from the lightening strike. Read more
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Summertime Data Room Monitoring: Part 2
Filed under: airflow monitoring, Data Center, environmental monitoring
In part one I went over the advantages of Temperature, Humidity, and Water leak monitoring. In this continuation of the saga will continue to focus on more ways to prevent the summer weather from damaging your data center while staying proactive in your defense. Read more
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Summertime Data Room Monitoring: Part 1
Filed under: Data Center, environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, temperature monitoring, water leak monitoring
It’s June and you know what that means? Summer is on the way. For most of us that means going to the beach, playing outside, and going to drive-ins with friends and family. But for IT Administrators, it’s all of that plus monitoring offices and Data Centers from being affected by the summer weather. This is the first part in an ongoing series to help those IT Administrators monitor and prevent a cataclysmic event from unfolding. Read more
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Server Room Environment Moderated by Mother Nature
Filed under: airflow monitoring, Data Center, environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, temperature monitoring
Recently, I saw a interesting post on Life Hacker about how to moderate PC temperature. It reminded me of a blog that I wrote a while back that talked about recycling expelled heat from the server room and using it to heat the office. The Life Hacker blog post demonstrated a method of cooling an over-clocked PC with fresh air from outside.
Although I think there are a few engineering flaws in the post, the design and concept are stable.
Using natural resources to cool your server room is clearly the next logical step in making server rooms green. Read more
Environmental Monitoring with securityProbe Devices
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The SecurityProbe 5E works with every intelligent sensor in the Ravica family. With the recent enhancements to Ravica’s securityProbe environmental monitoring devices, we’ve been talking a lot lately about this versatile piece of hardware. In order to explain the device’s basic functionality, we created a list of generalized Q&A.
If you have more specific questions, we would love to hear from you. Read more
Environmental Sensors from Ravica Get Interface Updates
We recently mentioned enhancements to the securityProbe 5E and that it is now possible to control a Relay Over IP through the security Probe 5E from a sensor placed at a remote location.
The securityProbe 5E device is a versatile and complete environmental and security monitoring solution, and the recent updates and improvements have provided even greater flexibility and performance. Additional enhancements include ease of set-up and updates to the interface. Read more
Ravica Environmental Monitoring Equipment Enhancements
The securityProbe 5E is a complete environmental and security monitoring solution for your business. The securityProbe 5E has an embedded Linux Operating System. Accessible through it’s own web interface means there is no software to install on your PC. Setup is very simple, once the IP address is configured to match your network, all features and settings are accessible through the web interface which is available in several languages.
The SecurityProbe 5E works with every intelligent sensor in the Ravica family. Connect up to 8 of our autoSense sensors in any combination to create your customized environmental monitoring solution which can monitor temperature, humidity, water leakage, airflow, security, detection of AC power line voltage, measurement of Digital Voltmeter, control relays, and much more. The Ravica range of sensors also includes an integrated data collection and graphing package which is especially useful in trend and information analysis.
Recent updates and improvements to the securityProbe 5E have provided greater flexibility and performance. Read more