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alarm systems, water pump systems, aisle containment and room temperatures. Which when brought together give an effective solution for data centre operators.
QYou offer the SIPe energy monitoring solution – can you tell us a little bit about this?
A SIPe is the energy variant of our successful and established range of SIP interface devices and works on the same principals,
delivering a simple but effective solution to meet your exact requirements. The energy and building controls industries have evolved and grown significantly in recent years and the engineering skill levels have not kept pace. The SIPe has been designed to be easy to use and commission across a broad range of competency and our SIPe energy monitoring, targeting & display solution with configurable local and public dashboards has been developed so that it can also be configured and managed by end users.
QYou also offer the SIPp power monitoring solution – what does this provide the data centre manager?
A The SIPp provides a low cost effective rack power monitoring solution that allows you to monitor AC or DC power, with alerts and
alarm monitoring measuring PUE, carbon footprint, and also giving an easy to read dashboard which is designed for each user to select
QYou also offer OEM/packaged controls – are these relevant to the data centre market?
A The OEM products are designed for the likes of chiller manufacturers to allow their CRAC units to talk to the network and
allow either the IT or facilities manager to manage and control their CRAC units. As these are an integral part of the data centre it’s important that these can be monitored effectively. We can also offer bespoke solutions where we are able to offer a complete monitoring solution that comes with a perpetual license
QCan you tell us something about your after sales support – technical, engineering, bespoke solutions and the like?
We have R&D and engineering departments that work on designing new and bespoke solutions that our clients require. Our engineering team commission the products both on and off site and we also offer comprehensive support through a dedicated online resource. If our customers need to speak with someone, our technical services support line is manned full time for immediate technical support and advice. We also offer a site support service after everything has been commissioned. This is for clients that require additional support or require their network updating as new products are installed or upgraded, and then require them to sit on our SIP network so they can manage and monitor. We also give a two year warranty on our SIP’s.
As a blue-chip organisation they wanted to monitor their rack power usage. So each rack is individually metered, with up to 30 racks in a row. A SIPp monitors each row, and with nine rows in the data centre, detailed information is
provided on a total of 270 meters. The nine SIPp’s which monitor the rows feed into a tenth unit; a SIPp Vision device. This device provides a system ‘portal’ through which the other SIPp devices can be connected and networked to provide a fully featured power monitoring system
what they want to see and can drag and drop the icons they need. The best bit is, it comes built into the SIPp meaning no ongoing licence fees!.
QApologies if it’s a stupid question (!), but what are the differences between the SIPe and SIPp products?
A There are various types of SIPe but primarily they are designed for collating and displaying the energy from a single network of
ModBus meters or M-Bus meters in a building. There are interface loggers that can be used as an interface to Trend and BACNET BMS. Also there are BMS logger’s that can sit on a BMS network which then allows you to monitor all data points to be viewed in a graphical report. The SIPp had been designed to monitor the power consumption in the data centre, showing the data on its own configurable public or local dashboards. Or it can be exported out to a DCIM or BMS solution.
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QWhat is the Synapsys view on the data centre being ‘split’ between the building management/facilities and IT functions?
A As I mentioned earlier the IT and facilities managers still work in their silos, but with our innovative SIP solutions we aim to get
both parties talking and working together as we manage to pull both parties in so they can both manage their relevant departments, but they will both be able to work to a common goal of bringing their consumption down and see it on a public or local dashboard.
QDo you see the two disciplines beginning to merge – ie do you still talk exclusively to facilities managers, or are you know
engaging with IT folks within the data centre?
A Interesting question as traditionally we would be talking to facilities managers and system integrators. But since moving into the
data centre arena we are talking to the data centre managers as well,
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