Studies conducted on enterprises
and facilities segment ranging from information
technology, telecom, data center, NOC, ATM,
server farm, health care, pharmaceutical, cold
storage, oil & gas and chemical industry
to warehouse and manufacturing plant reveal
that nearly 50% bore the brunt of at least one
mission-critical equipment failure and business
continuity downtime in each year of its operations.
The major causes of unplanned downtime and
asset loss:
60%
environmental mishaps & power supply failures.
40%
human error & deliberate tampering.
Any day, all of a sudden, networks could go
down because high temperature, humidity or other
environmental factors can cause a network component
to fail. It could even be because of a security
lapse.
Constant monitoring of the environment, power
supply and human activities is mission-critical
to ensure that A/C or blowers do not fail, A/C
dont get turned off, water leaks doesnt
occur, power supply units dont fail, alarms
not heard problem does not escalate into a major
damage, human error and deliberate tampering
does not lead to loss of lives and infrastructural
assets.
In a typical server farm scenario:
Network/system administrators in server farms
that provide massive computing for Web site
hosting, ISP and telecommunications, confirm
sensors improve network security. Usually a
typical server farm consists of arrays of rack
mounted network servers, managed by a handful
of network/system administrators.
The distributed nature of the todays unmanned
infrastructure, coupled with an industry wide
shortage of skilled IT workers, leaves little
time for IT staff to physically watch all the
territory of the company's server farms. The
time it takes to fix a network disaster after
it happens, almost always equals the time a
network is down. Instances of server farms facing
sudden blackouts are a common woe. Automatic
switch over to backup power system (uninterrupted
power supply) followed by backup generator can
keep the server farm up and running including
the servers and air conditioners. Sometimes
during the automatic switch over, equipment
like the AC shut down due to compressor stall
condition and fail to function in the alternate
power supply mode.
Deploy AKCP intelligent sensors to ensure:
Unpredictable
catastrophe does not strike your infrastructure.
Disruption
of business continuity is sensed and averted.
24X7X365
uptime of your facility.
Use AKCP intelligent sensors to protect your
infrastructure:
Remotely
monitor the temperature, humidity, water, airflow
and power supply conditions through a simple web or SNMP based.
Alert
the systems/network administrator, when environmental
conditions go out of range
to initiate damage control measures before casualty.
Safeguard
intellectual property of the enterprise in unmanned
areas and after work hours.
Empower
the systems/network administrator to multitask
and eliminate the need to
be within the facility for monitoring and maintenance
all the time. |
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