SynapSense employs wireless sensors to monitor and map datacenter health
Measure, measure, measure: It’s one of the pieces of advice repeatedly doled out to companies looking to make their datacenters more energy-efficient. Without question, it’s a sound suggestion; if you don’t know where you’re starting from, how do you know where you should go or whether you’ve made any progress ?
The real difficulty, however, lies in the measuring process. It can be time consuming. And once you’ve thoroughly measured the temperature, humidity, airflow, and energy consumption throughout your facility, you have a valuable snapshot — but just for a while. As time passes and changes occur within your datacenter — new equipment is added, a tile plate comes loose, a CRAC unit goes down — you might not realize you have a hot spot until the next time you take a measurement (or a system overheats).
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