Building-Performance Lighting for Data Centers
Today data centers are under constant pressure to find ways to improve power usage effectiveness (PUE) and drive higher uptimes. smartengine’s Building-Performance Lighting Platform provides on average a 75% reduction in energy usage from lighting and serves as a single system to monitor disruptions to uptime. The system scales well across a variety of environments from large Fortune 500 data centers and co-location facilities to smaller mission-critical facilities.
ACHIEVE THE LOWEST TOTAL ENERGY FOOTPRINT
Lighting remains the low-hanging fruit to quickly and easily capture energy savings. By controlling LED’s that are highly efficient at dimming and giving per-fixture control, smartengine delivers best-in-class energy savings for data centers.
The system can be used in multiple environments:
In a lights on data center, it enables significant dimming and energy savings while providing enough light for security cameras to operate.
In a lights out data center, it deploys motion-tracked lighting on a “follow-me” basis down individual aisles using only the minimum energy necessary to light the area around occupants. Automated policies ensure lights out behavior in the facility.
LOW VOLTAGE LIGHTING – LOW COST INSTALL & FLEXIBILITY
smartengine developed the world’s only smart building platform to power and control lights and a high-density sensor grid using low-voltage category cable for low cost installation and ultimate flexibility. This approach enables “lighting on demand”.
Lights and controls can be easily installed or moved by pulling cat. 5e/6/6a cable to new locations. No line voltage is required for LED fixtures. Commissioning is Web-based using simple drag and drop selection of fixtures associated with locations.
The TIA has adopted content that includes energy efficient lighting and controls in its soon to be published revision to the 942 standard.
MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS TO UPTIME
Lighting is ubiquitous in all interior spaces, often deployed in a grid-like pattern with power delivery. Given these attributes it is the most logical system to cost-effectively integrate a pervasive sensor and control network. smartengine pays for itself with energy savings and delivers value far beyond lighting to data center operations by concurrently deploying a smart network that senses and reports on multiple environmental parameters
Including:
High accuracy occupancy sensing
Ambient temperature mapping
Programmable alerts via email or flashing lights
Reports that can show when people have or have not been detected in any area of the data center
For co-location facilities, create customized environmental reports on a per-client basis
The smartmanager provides historical and real-time energy consumption data to the fixture level
REDUCE MAINTENANCE, MONITOR LIGHTING REMOTELY
Using LEDs controlled by smartengine means less maintenance for your lighting system. LED fixtures typically run for 50,000 hours and managing them with smartengine can substantially lengthen their life. In addition, LEDs do not require bulb changes like fluorescents so there is less need to arrange for maintenance and repair. smartengines’ Building-Performance Lighting Platform provides full, Web-based controls and reporting, so that your entire lighting system can be remotely managed, metered, and controlled. This coverage is comprehensive – all capabilities in the system are available through remote Web management, including usage reports, energy metering, fixture maintenance, and full policy control over setting light levels, time-outs, daylight harvesting, and motion policies.
