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  • tjcanning 8:35 am on June 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Wireless Sensors: Taking It To The Big Screen! 

    Its time to step up my blog game and start shooting videos! Hope you like this one – it is green screen video, post production by Final Cut/LiveType, shot using a Canon A1S HD camera and about 5k wattage of pro lighting. Sorry – it’s hard to be energy efficient using 5k of light – but that’s what it takes to produce this stuff!

    It’s a generic wireless video – in that I hope to get the minds of IT and Facilities folks thinking about WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) technology and how the application of such technology can help green their enterprise data center. Remember – for technology to have value – it must solve a problem. The current problem, as I see it today in older data centers, is the clear lack of power and thermal visibility – which just plainly drives major inefficiencies and cooling over-kills.  Solve this problem – and you can save major money and tighten your green belt a notch.

    Rather than write a long blog post – just watch the video please! :-)

    Making a video like this has been fun. I’ve still yet to develop my camera personality – at times I am looking a little too serious perhaps. But, over time I hope to loosen up and have some fun and expression to help flow the timeline out a bit more and make it more natural. It’s ain’t easy – but I’ll be working on it!

     
  • tjcanning 12:42 am on October 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Data Center Monitoring: A 2 minute Lesson 

    areo

    Let’s go quick, I’ve only got you for 2 minutes! From the hallways of the AFCOM Data Center World to the SVLG gymnasium of Netapp – the buzz is all about wireless sensors in the data center! It’s really about time that this technology got out and into the capable hands of every facilities or data center manager – I mean we measure everything else in the enterprise today – how can it possibly be that the data center’s excessive  energy consumption has gone on for so long without scrutiny. I scratch my head in wonder…

    Wireless sensors work really well to help folks quickly figure out their data center environments and bring sense to simple power and cooling challenges. The sensors are inexpensive, deployment is a snap ( hey Ma, look no wires!)  and the application is rich and intelligent. Rather than I try and explain this – let me cut/paste somethig an analyst wrote – very detailed but arther simplistic. I like it.

     

    How Energy Optimizer Works in the Data Center

    AREO-DC works by deploying wireless sensors to measure electrical, thermal, flow and pressure conditions on power circuits, server racks, computer-room air conditioners (CRACs) or air handlers (CRAHs), chillers and underneath the raised computer-room floor. The sensed data is then transmitted via wireless sensor networks to a graphical, multi-window dashboard that shows the electricity load (and associated utility rate-adjusted spend rate) of various equipment, electricity usage by physical or functional area over user-selected time intervals; temperature and humidity data from CRACs, CRAHs, server racks and chillers over time; chiller water-flow rates; “heat maps” superimposed on a floor plan; and key performance indicators such as the Green Grid organization’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Level 3 standard.

    From the AREO-DC dashboard, users can drill down to specific data centers and specific racks within a data center, and bring up side-by-side views of various factors, such as energy usage vis-à-vis indoor and/or outdoor temperature. Alerts can be generated when heat- and energy-use thresholds or user-defined financial thresholds are exceeded.

     

    Now this my friends sounds like a winner. There is nothing wrong with saving money. Ask Jim Cramer if you don’t believe me.

     
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