Project Description
Data Centers IoT Solution
Why
Applying IoT technology to your data center operations brings several important benefits that other solutions simply cannot compete with. First, an IoT system provides continuous, full coverage monitoring of every aspect of a data center. IoT systems can be configured to monitor and stream a variety of data, including data points that are important to data center stability and function. These include crucial metrics like temperature, humidity, power draw and usage. This data can be streamed from individual sensors placed throughout a data center, giving a full-field view of the entire system. For data center servers and storage, these specific data points equate to the overall health of data center operations.
Benefits
Improved energy efficiency
I uses the data from the IoT sensors to analyze a number of factors that can affect energy consumption, including temperature set points, flow rates and equipment performance. It not only identifies sources of energy inefficiency but also can make adjustments to reduce energy consumption. Today power consumes about 10% of a data center’s operating budget, and Gartner predicts this will rise to about 15% by 2021. By using data analytics, companies can reduce the amount of energy used for cooling by up to 40%.
Troubleshooting and downtime reduction
Smart sensors and artificial intelligence predictive engine can detect and predict outages by tracking power levels, energy quality, humanity and vibrations levels. These are critical factor for Data Centers availability, reliability and performance.
Data Collection and Analytics Platform
A critical function an Internet of Things management solution performs is as a data collection and analytics platform. For data center analysis, an IoT system provides the most cost effective and efficient means of accessing “big data.” IoT systems collect huge amounts of data compared to other monitoring software systems. As the data is collected it is streamed in real-time to cloud-based analytics software, where it is then assessed and sent to a data dashboard.