A common challenge in deploying IT systems in warm climates common to Southeast Asia, India and Oceania is managing high temperatures and humidity for office, manufacturing and remote locations. In addition, it is customary in many regions to turn off building cooling systems during nights, weekends and holidays to preserve energy costs. Both the IT room and remote cabinet systems need to be reinforced to handle these environments to store commercial-grade networking devices, while modern edge-computing systems are moving servers closer to the source of data, requiring greater environmental management in these sensitive applications.
Many companies are now moving towards Micro Data Centers across a wide range of market segments such as manufacturing, warehouses/logistics, airports, enterprise branch offices, retail, education and hospitals to remotely monitor the power and cooling; removing the need for on-site IT management. However, IT managers are quickly finding common challenges in deploying cheaper, low-performance systems such as:
- Foggy glass, making it difficult to visibly monitor the devices
- Internal and external standing water condensation build-up
- Low-rated cooling systems are unable to manage the inner/outside temperature delta
- Limited field adjustment settings to tune the system
- Compromised security during internal over-temperature with auto-door release
The ArcTiv Micro Data Center product line addresses these environmental issues with the following features:
- Double-pane glass with anti-fog
- +95% external humidity rating (non-condensing)
- Internal and external water sensors to detect any standing water build-up (>1mm)
- High capacity cooling systems to de-rate the IT load (up to 7.6kW per rack)
- Field-adjustable internal temperature set-point
- Optional dual-style front door with internal steel mesh and outer auto-release glass; providing device security during over-temperature door safety release
- IP5X rating for semi-harsh indoor environments
- Full suite of environmental sensors (temp, humidity, smoke, water, door) to detect and alert during any event
ArcTiv is dedicated to providing the highest performance, customized IT solutions to power, protect, cool and connect your critical network infrastructure. Find out more in our product line catalog or visit our website at www.arctiv-tech.com
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel S. James II, MSEE, MBA
Daniel is the founder of ArcTiv Technologies and currently is resides in Taipei, Taiwan and St. Louis, MO, USA. He brings over 15 years of experience in both the data center and industrial automation industries having worked for Fortune 500 technology companies in various roles including Corporate Strategic Planning, M&A, Product Management and International Sales & Marketing. Connect with him on Linked-In.