The Challenge
The customer, a global colocation services provider, needed to replace their existing environmental monitoring solution in order to demonstrate compliance with Service Level Agreements. The solution had to be reliable, easy to install and cost effective to own and operate.
The Solution
Packet Power's wireless environmental monitors met all the customer's requirements. The colo provider engaged Arayna Tech to design and deploy the environmental monitors. Packet Power monitors were deployed quickly and efficiently in dozens of sites to date.
Business Results
Packet Power equipment has proven to be accurate, dependable and cost effective.
Compared to the customer's prior monitoring solution, Packet Power wireless environmental monitors:
- Improve reliability by 20% or more
- Install in 10% of the time
- Lower costs substantially
The ease of implementation translated to real cost savings for the customer. The team was able to triple the number of deployments in 25% of the time.
Additional deployments are planned across existing U.S. and international facilities and in new facilities as they become available.
Customer:
Global Colocation Services Provider
Location:
United States
Facility Type:
Data Centers
About the Customer:
The company operates over 290 data centers totaling 34.5 million rentable square feet across 6 continents. They support more than 2,300 clients in a range of industries including healthcare, financial services, gaming and AI technologies.
About Arayna Tech:
Data center, smart building and energy management facilities managers engage Arayna Tech to design and deploy monitoring solutions, provide system integration services, and develop custom software. Arayna Tech focuses on practical, economical and easy-to- use solutions for its customers that deliver measurable return on investment.
Customer Objectives:
- Demonstrate SLA compliance
- Increase accuracy and reliability
- Reduce costs
Existing environmental monitors weren't able to deliver customer-required data.
The customer, a global colocation services provider, monitors environmental conditions in their retail data centers to demonstrate compliance with Service Level Agreements. Their legacy environmental sensors didn't support all the parameters clients wanted to see and required more resources to operate than expected.
The customer needed an environmental monitoring solution that captured the data their customers required, was reliable (accurate and dependable) and cost effective to own and operate.
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Packet Power's wireless environmental monitors deliver a reliable, cost effective way to get accurate temperature and humidity monitoring data.
Meeting all the requirements, Packet Power's compact, battery-powered monitors can be placed exactly where needed in each data suite. The cost to purchase and install is lower than the customer's prior monitoring solution.
The colo provider engaged Arayna Tech to design, deploy and troubleshoot all environmental monitoring systems integrated with their DCIM. They worked together to come up with a standard for environmental monitoring in their retail data centers that meets or exceeds every client’s requirements. Arayna identified monitor placement for each installation using these standards.
Deployment was a straightforward process in which Arayna installed Packet Power environmental monitors and the Ethernet Gateways that transfer monitoring data to the customer’s DCIM system. Within minutes of monitor installation, the customer’s data site managers were able to view real-time temperature and humidity data in their 3rd-party monitoring system.
