EkkoSense, the data centre thermal risk expert, is launching EkkoSoft Critical, an intuitive and immersive web-based 3D software and sensor offering for managing critical data centre facilities at
Data Centre World 2016.
By deploying EkkoSoft Critical, organisations will be able to identify and eradicate thermal risk in their data centres as well as driving significant additional energy savings.
The EkkoSoft Critical range consists of:
- EkkoSoft Critical – a cost-effective, easy to use web-based 3D application that creates real-time 3D views of a data centre’s physical and thermal dynamics to ensure the levels of accuracy needed to eradicate thermal risks and identify significant energy saving opportunities.
- Critical Things – a range of accurate, low cost and secure wireless temperature, humidity and air flow sensors, including a breakthrough wireless cooling duty meter that quantifies exactly how much cooling your site is using
EkkoSense will also be showcasing a pre-release of an exciting new sensor technology for the critical environment.
EkkoEye is a 360-degree infrared sensor that enables complete and dynamic thermal visualiation of an environment using only a handful of dedicated sensors.
“Research shows that a third of data centre outages are still the result of thermal issues. We introduced our EkkoSoft Critical approach to address this issue directly, providing data centre operators and owners with an intuitive and easy-to-use solution that – for the first time – allows them to visualise their own data centre cold and hot spots in true web-based 3D,” commented Dr Stu Redshaw, EkkoSense’s CTO. “With EkkoSoft Critical we’re building on our years’ of experience in critical infrastructure and thermal expertise, and the result is a solution that clearly shows where organisations are either under-cooling or over-cooling – resulting in wasted energy or unacceptable thermal risks.
“We’ve already successfully deployed our EkkoSoft Critical model in our consultancy engagements, and the results have been impressive, with one leading European data centre already achieving a 32% reduction in cooling energy,” he continued. “Combining our EkkoSoft Critical software – based on the latest gaming technology - with our Critical Things sensors and EkkoEye 3D thermal monitoring technology, means that any organisation can now build their own 3D thermal data centre models. This will help significantly in terms not only of thermal and cooling monitoring, but also in their ongoing physical planning activities.”
