Since ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) has reconsidered guidelines for acceptable server temperatures in data centers and server rooms, it leaves little time to respond to environmental problems.
Of course with a higher acceptable temperature range, data centers or server rooms can reduce the energy consumed to cool the electronic hardware. The costs for cooling the systems are greatly reduced as well as reducing power consumption. However, with the standards on temperature ranges for servers raised, it allows less time to fix the problem to cool the server systems in the server room or data center to normal temperatures.
An air conditioner that broke overnight or during a lunch break in the server room or data center may not be much of a concern if temperatures do not have much time to rise. However, since the temperature range is higher, in the server room or data center it may be. There is not much room for response time–temperatures can get from warm to hot very quickly now if an AC unit fails. A fan that breaks in a server while IT personnel is at lunch could be just as devastating as an AC unit that breaks over the weekend with higher temperature ranges.
Environmental monitoring sensors have become more important than ever in data centers and server rooms with the temperature guideline change. Administrators and IT managers must be on top of issues that arise caused by hazardous temperature conditions.
Temperature sensors can easily be installed to record server temperatures in the server room or data center. Placing temperatures sensors next to the air intake on a server component is critical for accurate server temperatures.
Be notified of temperature conditions, security alerts, or any other environmental hazard that threatens critical IT components in the data center or server room as soon as issues arise.
Server room environmental & security monitoring systems
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