Energy Savings  and Efficiency
      As a participant in the Department of Energy’s Save  Energy Now campaign and its Industrial Technologies Program, Sensicast and  its technology innovations dovetail with governmental and utility initiatives  to help data centers to reduce their energy consumption  and realize energy savings.
     
      “Improved data center energy efficiency could lead  to a savings of 20 billion kWh per year by 2015, which is the equivalent of the  annual electricity use of 1.8 million American homes,” said Paul Scheihing,  Technology Manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy  Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).  See  Scheihing’s presentation on “Creating Energy-Efficient Data  Centers” at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/docs/doe_data_centers_presentation.ppt.
     
      Sensicast’s  Data Center Monitoring system lets  operators track, profile and analyze data center  energy
      use, giving them essential information for Energy Savings Assessments and best  practices which can lead
      to opportunities to cut electricity demand.
     
      Inside data  centers, SensiNet  thermal sensors can be placed in equipment racks and special SensiNet  "tethered" sensors can measure IT equipment skin temperatures.  SensiNet identifies “hot spots” and can  generate automatic alerts in the event of problems.  Pre-configured  software interfaces connect SensiNet with building control automation software to  manage HVAC systems. Furthermore, SensiNet Smart Sensors can monitor the power  consumption of all data center equipment and transmit this data to existing  building control systems, which, when managed proactively, can generate significant  energy savings.

Compliance  with Equipment Warranties and Service Level Agreements
      SensiNet monitoring provides essential ongoing documentation  of real-time conditions in datacom facilities in order to comply with  electronic equipment manufacturers warranty agreements. Warranty terms covering  datacom equipment from leading manufacturers such as Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM  include language indicating that warranties may be void when products are  operated outside “published environmental  specifications”1 or in an “unsuitable physical or operating  environment.”2
     
      Through its ability to  continually track and report temperature and other facility conditions, SensiNet  helps data center managers make necessary environmental adjustments immediately  while documenting that their IT equipment has operated in accordance with manufacturers’  recommendations.
     
      Beyond its use for equipment warranty compliance, SensiNet also provides support  for Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for utility services providers who offer hosting  of Web, network, and SAAS (Software as a Service) provisioning to other  companies. A notable example of a current Sensicast customer in this field is  SAVVIS, Inc., one of the world's largest providers of IP computing services.
     
      Maximum Uptime
      As long ago as 2001, the American Society of  Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), cautioned that  any equipment running “outside its allowable operating environment risks  catastrophic equipment failure." 3  Monitoring the environment conditions in a computer room or  data center is critical to ensuring uptime and system reliability, and avoiding  the high cost of downtime.
      Gartner, Inc. estimates the average hourly cost of downtime for a computer  network at $42,000. At these costs, even companies with 99.9% uptime lose  hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in unplanned downtime. Maintaining  recommended temperature and humidity levels in the data center can reduce  unplanned downtime and save companies thousands or even millions of dollars per  year. SensiNet monitors adverse environmental conditions that can  cause downtime including brownouts, voltage spikes, and sudden loss of HVAC. In  addition, support for historical reporting and data archiving makes it easy to  spot trends and evaluate off-hour operational conditions. Through its provision  for real-time alerts, alarms, escalation and data storage, Sensicast helps to  maintain the integrity, reliability and security of mission-critical network,  hosting and applications.White Paper  Available
      Issues addressed and benefits enabled by the new system are detailed in  Sensicast’s new White Paper: “Wireless  Sensor Network Solutions for Data Center Applications” which may be  downloaded at: http://www.sensicast.com/uploadedFiles/WP-WSNs_for_Data_Centers.pdf.
   

      About Sensicast
      Sensicast provides turnkey Wireless Sensor Network systems that help operating  managers dramatically reduce costs, improve efficiency and document compliance.  Sensicast’s patented, easy-to-deploy SensiNet® systems capture  real-time data from applications, processes, and facility conditions and make  the information available and actionable through internal and remote Web-based  access. SensiNet meets the needs of a
wide range of industrial and commercial enterprises—including remote monitoring  of temperature, energy, moisture/humidity, and other data types; while  facilitating governmental/environmental compliance.
      For more information: www.sensicast.com.
     
      Sensicast and SensiNet are registered trademarks of Sensicast Systems,  Inc. All other marks are property
        of their respective owners.
       
      References:
      1--HP Warranty:
      ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/networking/software/5990-8862-ProCurve-software-license-warranty-and-support-June-2006.pdf
      2--IBM Warranties:
      http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/machine_warranties/PDF/Z125-4753-09_Eng.pdf
      3--ASHRAE Research: http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/
       
      Press Contact:  Patrick Rafter/ prafter@sensicast.com/ (617) 901- 2697          ###