SECURITY
SAFE, SECURE AND EFFICIENT
Siemens Building Technologies share how to get the most integrated solutions for your datacentre and to manage them effectively.
Today’s Facilities Managers require multiple skill sets in an ever-changing environment. Organisations both large and small often require FMs to be responsible for their datacentre facility in addition to traditional FM services. This requires the right tools in place, not only to provide the security of the building and its assets, but also to deliver the performance management of the datacentre, optimise capacity, maintain business continuity, identify opportunities to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
As a leading provider of high level security and life safety systems to datacentres worldwide, Siemens understands that datacentres face many operational challenges that can be alleviated through the adoption of an integrated technology-based approach and an intelligence-led security strategy to ensure maximum uptime, resilience and sustainability.
Even a ten millisecond interruption can disrupt the entire IT operation of a data centre. Any temporary stoppage of data flow, or a failure
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in a single element of the facility’s infrastructure can result in downtime, resulting in serious consequences for an organisation’s daily operations, reputation and competitiveness.
Threats to datacentres come in many forms, from the determined intruder trying to gain physical access to the facility and ultimately the servers, to low level damage and vandalism.
PROJECT SCOPE A typical project scope might
encompass: command and control solutions; secure process management; wide-area surveillance; perimeter and site intrusion protection; access control for people, contractors and vehicles; alarm management; fire detection and extinguishing; phased evacuation systems; lone worker monitoring and asset tracking.
Furthermore, by automating routine security and fire safety tasks, staff can concentrate on core business activities whilst protecting facilities with high performance risk management
systems based on the latest safety and security technologies.
LAYERED SOLUTIONS The optimum approach is to implement
layers of security and safety, starting at the perimeter to enable full control of the site, as well as monitor sensitive and hazardous areas. An advanced software management platform will integrate CCTV, video analytics, electric fencing card access, fire protection and emergency evacuation, as well as other multiple devices to deliver site-wide command and control from a single point.
Integrated wide-area surveillance, video analytics, robust perimeter alarms and intruder protection systems will confirm any unusual or suspicious activity and have a varying identification profile to address differing conditions, creating an intelligent, electronic ring fence across the data centre.
Effective site control is established by card access at key locations to monitor personnel activity and
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