For New and Existing Data Centers | Environmental Monitoring Solution

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Wireless Solutions for Monitoring Data Center Environmental Conditions

Real-time data center monitoring is critical in today's ever-changing data center environments. With RF Code's CenterScape platform and our easy-to-deploy and affordable wire-free sensors, you get continuous data center monitoring capabilities—including temperature, humidity, location, and more.

Proven Data Center Environmental Monitoring Solution

Real-time environmental monitoring that has been proven in top data centers around the world. Ideal for new data center builds or to install in existing data centers.

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Wireless RF sensors are easy to install

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Real-time environmental monitoring

How RF Code Environmental Monitoring Compares for Data Centers

You get the best price-for-performance solution when you choose RF Code for data center environmental monitoring.

	RF Code	Other sensor solutions
Large range of all wireless sensors	100% wireless	✖️ Mix of wireless & wired sensors
High sensor density	Up to 1,400 sensors monitored simultaneously per reader	✖️ Struggle with density, especially around metal
High read range	Up to 300 feet (91m)	✖️ Shorter range or line of sight
Competitively priced	Low sensor prices, high sensor density per reader	✖️ Most can’t compete on sensor price & reader scale
Single point of integration for data access	Can simultaneously integrate with multiple systems using many protocols	✖️ May require protocol selection in advance, gateway to be hardwired into shadow network
No vendor lock-in to PDU or other products	Works with your choice of PDU, BMS, DCIM vendor	✖️ Beware of the PDU based add-on controller trap!

Ensuring optimal environmental conditions in data centers

Data Centers are large and complex, with environmental conditions that vary not just from area to area but also from rack to rack. Environmental conditions must be monitored and controlled to ensure availability and to avoid SLA violations. Fluid leaks must be detected immediately to prevent damage to critical assets and infrastructure. Air flow and pressure must be maintained to ensure proper HVAC and CRAC performance. Temperatures must be controlled to prevent equipment from overheating, but overcooling protects equipment … at enormous energy costs that no business can afford.

RF Code's easy-to-deploy data center monitoring solution delivers the most accurate and real-time environmental data down to the row and rack level available today. Our wire-free sensors provide 99.9% accurate temperature, humidity, air pressure, and leak detection data in real-time. CenterScape software provides metrics you need to proactively detect problems, protect your critical assets, and prevent disastrous downtime.

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Why Companies Choose Environmental Management Solutions from RF Code

Energy efficiency

Reduce energy use by safely and confidently operating sustainable data centers at the most energy efficient temperatures. Identify inefficient hot spots and address them quickly.

Savings

Safely increase set points and reduce cooling costs without risking overheating. Proactively address environmental hazards and prevent disastrous downtime.

Performance

Complete visibility, accountability and compliance reporting drives informed decisions and ensures SLAs are delivered and met.

Accuracy

Instant, continuous data center monitoring and environmental visibility down to the individual rack level, 24/7.

Ease of use

Realize immediate savings with our simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage data center monitoring solutions.

Integration

Enhance the capabilities of your other data center management investments with the power of RF Code’s real-time data.

One place to integrate across all environmental sensors

The most convenient software based integration to access data and events with your DCIM, BMS, cooling optimization, bespoke data center analytics solutions and more. Unlike other solutions, with RF Code you can support integrating with multiple systems using different protocols simultaneously. And you aren’t locked into a hardware-based protocol you need choose upfront.

Many integration protocols supported, including SNMP, Modbus, Bacnet, REST API.

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Not All Environmental Sensors Are Created Equal

Hear about the operational and financial impact of our wire-free and 99.9% accurate environmental sensors.

Wireless Environmental Sensors

All RF Code environmental sensors are wireless and are supported by a single type of RFID reader, so you can easily expand the sensors in your environment.

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Environmental

Temperature and Humidity	For monitoring temperature and humidity. Typically used for front and back of rack temperature, but can be used for more.
Tethered Temperature Sensor	For monitoring temperature. This tag has a remote temperature sensor that can be placed closer to the temperature source.
Fluid Detection Sensor	For detecting fluid leaks and providing early warning.
Door Sensor	For monitoring access to a room, rack, hard drive disposal containers and more.
Dry Contact Sensor	Sensor that monitors dry contact or closed-loop monitoring circuit.
Differential Air Pressure Sensor	For monitoring for airflow problems that can prevent optimal data center cooling efficiency.

Power

Rack PDU Power Sensor	Sensor for securely monitoring smart Rack PDUs without need to connect the Rack PDU to the network.
AC Voltage Sensor	Sensor that detects presence of AC voltage in a power cable.

Asset

Active RFID Asset Tag

Tracks the real time location of data center assets. Assets can be tracked to rack, room or zone that they are located in.

FAQs

Are wireless RF sensors suitable for data center environmental monitoring?

Yes. In fact, wireless RF sensors are the better choice for data center environmental monitoring because they are easier to install. And because there are no wires or power cables, they make tasks like removing a cabinet door hassle free. RF Code wireless environmental sensors have been proven by our customers and are used in some the largest and most demanding data center environments in the United States and around the world.

Does real-time environmental monitoring help with data center sustainability?

Yes. Real-time monitoring of temperature and airflow in the data center exposes overcooling, hot spots, hot air bleed into cold air and where there are airflow issues. With this information you can resolve the issues and improve cooling efficiency to reduce power usage. Also, by monitoring temperature in real time you can safely increase temperature set points to decrease power use without damaging IT equipment. RF Code’s data center environmental monitoring solutions will alert you when the temperature is too high.

Do you work with Nlyte and other DCIMs?

Yes. The data from our environmental monitoring sensors is available in a number of convenient ways, including Modbus, BACnet, SNMP traps, REST API.

Are wireless environmental monitoring sensors secure?

Yes. They feature one-way communication, cannot control or change anything, can’t connect to network/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, and can only be seen by secure readers. There is no cloud access, and all data is stored by you in your data center.

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