Building Management Solutions for Data Centers and Mission Critical Facilities
How Efficient is Your Data Center? Recent years have seen rapid growth in global demand for computing capacity, resulting in the industry having to not only increase the number of data centers, but also having to invest in significant upgrades to extend the capacity of their existing facilities. Ensuring that your data centers are efficient through optimum uptime, reliable operations, and control of your energy consumption are now, more than ever, a top priority. Learn why a growing number of data centers and mission critical facilities are turning to Distech Controls proven solutions to help them achieve better results.
Improved Visibility and Control Gaining greater insight into the performance of your data center facilitates a better understanding of its mechanical, security and electrical components, thereby enabling you to minimize costs while ensuring uptime and availability. Unified Control Distech Controls EC-Net AXTM web-based building management platform allows you to monitor and control every aspect of your data center, by integrating all of your control and monitoring devices, regardless of protocol or manufacturer, from HVAC, lighting, access control, CCTV to CRAC units, UPS systems, backup generators and energy meters. The resulting unified, full-featured control and monitoring console provides real-time information, enabling you to quickly identify issues, monitor maintenance requirements and proper function of equipment, assess relationships, and proactively take the appropriate measures. Network Convergence Our solutions use standard Internet and web-based services for data communication, allowing you to leverage your existing IT infrastructure, efficiently exchange data, and migrate multiple communication services into a single application. Proactive Alarm Management In addition, our platform provides for real-time event-based and proactive alarm management with sophisticated processing and routing, for improved efficiencies and response time. And you will benefit from the resulting synergies of an integrated solution, such as access to live CCTV streams or video playback related to individual alarm events, allowing you to remotely view conditions, even in unmanned facilities. Improved Savings With our solutions, you can achieve operational savings of up to 30%, easily identify any performance outliers, implement best practices, and take action from anywhere, anytime, thereby ensuring your data center s energy efficiency and increasing your power usage effectiveness (PUE).
Ensure Precise Environmental Conditions for Reduced Energy Wastage By maintaining your computer room areas within precise environmental conditions, you are able to ensure proper equipment operations, successfully remediate hotspots, and reduce energy wastage. Complete Sensing and Metering Solutions Distech Controls offers high precision, quality indoor and outdoor sensors for all of your data center requirements, from temperature, humidity, CO 2 and air flow sensors to energy and current/power meters. Our unique Open-to- Wireless, battery-less sensors, allow you to easily place sensors on any surface or material, so as to precisely monitor conditions throughout the facility, without the need to run wires. In addition, this solution facilitates space reconfiguration and supports modernization of any data center, by reducing wiring and sensor relocation costs by up to 15% in new constructions and 70% in retrofits. Precision Control Distech Controls line of robust BACnet and LONWORKS Controllers offers the features and flexibility needed to address the demands of even your most complex projects. With a fast-response microprocessor and high precision input and output, our controllers deliver accurate control and advanced data processing to maintain your environmental conditions within a precise range. In addition, Distech Controls powerful graphical programming tool, combined with the reliable functionality of our sensors and controllers, allows you to implement specific control sequences and monitoring requirements for the continuous optimization of your energy usage, such as hot or cold aisle containment, air flow and pressure control, CRAC control, free cooling and demand controlled strategies. More than 1/3, sometimes up to 1/2 of a data center s electricity bill 1 is made up by electricity for cooling
A Sustainable Foundation for Continuous ROI Extending beyond traditional economic variables, the ever changing and expanding landscape of the IT industry means that you need a truly flexible solution that can grow with your business, thereby leveraging your existing capital investments and ensuring a faster ROI. Now Distech Controls EC-Net AX web-based platform, accessible from anywhere at any time, meets the needs of your facility operations, whether stand alone, part of an office tower, or even unmanned. It allows you to manage all your data centers via one seamless interface, with global, regional and site-level functional, monitoring and reporting capabilities. In the Future The flexibility and scalability of our solutions not only address advancements in technology, they also simultaneously support your own evolving requirements, whether expansion of existing facilities or new developments. A truly open solution creates a sustainable foundation that supports and evolves with your building system s lifecycle. Distech Controls has set the standard in the industry for innovative, cost-effective, and truly open building and energy management systems that help increase operational savings and increase sustainability throughout the lifecycle of your facilities. Our commitment to open protocols, industry and IT standards, combined with our best-ofbreed technology offering, ensure the longstanding performance and value of your system. This dedication is demonstrated by our interchangeable components, continuous availability of all hardware, and maintained backwards compatibility, thereby ensuring the long-term functionality and usability of your system. 70% of data center operators built a new site or renovated 2 a site in the past 5 years
Key Analytics for Improved PUE Value and Sustainability With all of the information that comes from controlling and monitoring your critical facilities, it is extremely important to have a system that can be used to bring everything together in a cohesive and centralized fashion. In being able to visualize this information, assess relationships and establish benchmarks, you can optimize your energy efficiency. Key Analytics Distech Controls EC-Net AX EnerVue TM streamlines, to your own personalized dashboard, large volumes of data into visual knowledge, graphs, and reports, providing you with valuable information regarding performance and PUE. This dashboard enables you to track and compare trends and energy consumption data at global and/or local site levels, so as to benchmark your data center. By being able to quickly view real time data and historical trends, such as energy trends, building comparisons, weather data, network status, consumption efficiencies, key performance indices, and more, one can take the appropriate actions. This reporting and energy management dashboard also provides you with key analytics required for LEED and Energy Star programs. Connectivity In addition, our solutions use standard Internet and web-based services for data communication, allowing you to leverage your existing IT infrastructure, efficiently exchange data, and collaborate at all levels of your business. Additional Savings with Lighting Control Although lighting is not always top of mind when it comes to data centers, it can play a role in the overall energy efficiency of your operations. By properly integrating the lighting of your facilities into your building management system, you can lower your energy costs, reduce unnecessary generated heat, and improve security. Indoor and Outdoor Lighting Distech Controls EC-Light TM offers a flexible solution for both indoor and outdoor lighting, which can be controlled on a schedule, on demand, or based on presence detection. Our lighting control system allows you to benefit from additional synergies in your building management system, which can dramatically cut lighting energy usage. Switching to an energy-efficient lighting network that integrates building-performance systems can improve PUE by up to 25% 3
Secure Your Facilities and Protect Your Assets Some of the most important information is housed in data centers. Ensuring only authorized personnel have access to your data centers, and providing 24/7 security become essential parts of managing this invaluable resource. Access Control Distech Controls EC-Net AX Security is a complete access control solution, including new generation readers and credentials, providing you with state-of-the-art security and privacy features, from physical and logical access control to biometrics. With its intuitive web interface, EC-Net AX Security can easily be configured and managed by your IT, security, or human resource staff, and can be fully integrated into your building management system, IT, and enterprise applications, in order to protect and monitor your facilities. Video Surveillance Our integrated closed circuit television (CCTV) solution interfaces with many leading Digital Video recorder equipment manufacturers, allowing you to quickly access video playback related to individual alarm events, as well as remotely view activity throughout your critical facilities in real time. Smoke Control System In the unfortunate situation where a building is faced with a fire, containing the smoke, ensuring proper evacuation conditions, and minimizing property damage are a priority. Our UL 864 UUKL 9th Edition Smoke Control System can operate as a standalone dedicated system or be integrated with your EC-Net AX building management system. The percentage of companies pursuing green data center certifications like US Green Building Council's LEED program or Energy Star 2 grew from 48% in 2012 to 58% in 2013
Innovative Solutions for Greener Buildings TM An innovation leader in energy management solutions, Distech Controls provides unique building management technologies and services that optimize energy efficiency and comfort in buildings, all the while reducing operating costs. We deliver Innovative Solutions for Greener Buildings through our passion for innovation, quality, customer satisfaction, and sustainability. Distech Controls serves multiple market segments through its worldwide business divisions, service offices, and a superior network of Authorized Partners. www.distech-controls.com Distech Controls, the Distech Controls logo, EC-Net AX, EC-Net AX EnerVue, EC-Light, and Innovative Solutions for Greener Buildings are trademarks of Distech Controls Inc. LONWORKS, LNS, and LONMARK are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation. Niagara AX Framework is a registered trademark of Tridium, Inc. BACnet is a registered trademark of the American Society of Heating, refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. BTL is a registered trademark of BACnet International. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners., Distech Controls Inc., 2014. All rights reserved. 1. C. Belady, A. Rawson, J. Pfleuger, and T. Cader. The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE & DCiE. Technical report, Green Grid, 2008. 2. 2013 Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey 3. 2 S. Keppler, The Data Center Journal, Lighting as the Unsung Hero in Data Center Energy Efficiency, 2012 Printed in Canada This document printed on recycled paper. MDI-DATA-XX001