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Impact of ASHRAE guidelines for Data Centers?
Impact of ASHRAE guidelines for Data Centers?
Data Centers consume 1-1.5 percent of energy today worldwide. It is predicted that by 2030, it will grow up to 3-13%. As energy consumption rises, so do the costs. To prevent unnecessary expenses, proper environmental monitoring best practices should be applied. ASHRAE have developed guidelines for the data center that include strategies for the best practices that reduce energy consumption. The different data industry segments have worked together on energy reduction approaches. These led to practical, technically attainable, and cohesive energy efficiency solutions. It then became the basis for the development of future codes and standards.
Decentralizing Data Center Power
Replacing a centralized electrical distribution system with a distributed power architecture sets up a facility to handle unexpected demand spikes.
Data Center Water Usage Effectiveness – WUE
world is turning more to the digital realm in the new normal. Data centers are multiplying to meet those demands. With more data centers comes the need for more power. Increased power consumption requires regulation of generated heat. Data centers rely mostly on water-based cooling and so the water usage effectiveness (WUE) should be considered.
Using ASHRAE Indoor Air Quality Guide
Using ASHRAE Indoor Air Quality Guide
In the 1970s, the approach to energy efficiency compromised Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). Efforts should concentrate on net-zero energy buildings that do not repeat past mistakes. Forums have discussed sustainable buildings concentrating on energy use. Indoor air quality and its effect on health should factor into building design. IAQ has worked with ventilation standards such as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 62.1. This approach improved IAQ in buildings. However, ASHRAE Indoor Air Quality requires more than minimum ventilation rates.
AKCP Releases Wireless Tunnel™ as an alternative to LoRaWAN
AKCP Releases Wireless Tunnel™ as an alternative to LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN® and AKCP’s Wireless Tunnel™ are built on Semtech’s LoRa™, long-range radio chirp spread spectrum technology. Wireless Tunnel™ is a complete solution from sensors to gateway to server. AKCP designs and manufactures the complete end to end communications software and hardware.
AKCP Releases Wireless Tunnel™ Air Quality Sensor
AKCP, the world’s oldest and largest supplier of networked wired and wireless sensor solutions have released their Wireless Tunnel™ Air Quality Sensor. Combining air particles, volatile organic compounds (VOC), temperature and humidity in a single sensor. Values are checked against user defined thresholds once every 10 seconds.
AKCP Releases Cold Chain Temperature Sensors
AKCP, the world’s oldest and largest supplier of networked wired and wireless sensor solutions has released a range of temperature sensors tailored for the needs of the cold chain industry. The sensors are the lowest layer of the Wireless Tunnel™ Architecture.
AKCP Releases updates to sensorProbe product family
AKCP, the world’s oldest and largest supplier of networked wired and wireless sensor solutions has updated their sensorProbe product line. For the past 20 years, the sensorProbe series has been an industry benchmark. The sensorProbe is a mature, reliable network-enabled monitoring platform, compatible with a wide range of AKCP’s environmental, security, and power monitoring sensors.
Why Vaccine Cold Chain Monitoring is Critical
Vaccines are a key component in our health care system. One of the most cost-effective and efficient public health strategies is immunization. The end of many disease outbreaks can be directly attributed to the development of their respective vaccines. They have an immense societal contribution, which is why it is crucial that the delivery of vaccines through the cold chain is monitored and handled with the utmost care to ensure that the vaccine’s integrity is maintained all throughout its transport. The effectiveness of vaccines heavily relies on proper vaccine storage conditions. Vaccines are time and temperature-sensitive. They are transported through
Data Center Temperature Guidelines and Best Practices
Data Center Temperature Guidelines and Best Practices
In order to ensure that a Data Center is functioning properly, it is important for the temperature to be well-regulated at all times. Excessive heat puts a Data Center at risk of failure. This failure can lead to downtime, which causes lost data and revenue. Based on a Gartner study, it is estimated that the cost of one hour of downtime can amount to up to $336,000 per hour or $5,600 per minute. Maintaining temperatures in a Data Center within recommended guidelines is crucial in preventing the company from losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue.
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