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EnviroNet
Infrastructure Data Center Monitoring Software
Overview:
The EnviroNet software is designed to provide the facility management and/or those who are responsible for the uptime of the facilities with an interactive tool that provides a real- time view of the power chain(s), the cooling, and security of the sites and asset management of the equipment located in the data centers, computer rooms and/or remote sites.
The software is able to accumulate billable grade data of the power usage in wattage, voltage, amperage, power factors and kilowatts per hour and produce reports and trends on power consumption and the carbon footprint for the site(s), client user groupings, cabinets and individual circuits.
It has the capability to monitor and trend the thermo conditions of the cooling plant(s), cabinets, racks, under the raised floor and the aisles (hot and cold).
The software provides a series of interactive floor plans that depicts the equipment location in the site and the status of the equipment. The system has “drills down” capabilities that take the user to view the functions of the equipment.
Web cams, door contacts, card readers and leak detection devices are able to be accommodated by the software and displayed within the interactive floor plans.
The software has the ability to accept a wireless asset management third party system.
The software is vendor – neutral, meaning that other software product must be able to communicate with it. Examples of these software’s are: Liebert Site Scan, Eaton Foreseer, APC, MGE, and Johnson Controls.
General:
The EnviroNet software is able to communicate with all infrastructures critical missions and support equipment that has communication capabilities. It is able to interpret: Modbus, Modbus IP, SNMP, LOC, BacNet and Niagara. It t provides user defined alerts and alarms, locally and over the internet. The software must be able to gather, trend and report on all critical mission equipment and the utility service(s).
Infrastructure Critical Mission and Support equipment includes:
Power:
- Utilities service
- Generators
- Switch gear
- ATS
- UPS
- PDU’s / RPP’s
- Cabinet level PDU’s
Cooling:
- Chillers
- CRAC units
- Supplement cooling units and devices
- Thermo sensors
- Leak detection
Security:
- Door access
- Cabinet access
- Web camera(s)
- Fire suppression
Interactive Tools
The software has the following interactive tools to aids in the management of the infrastructure.
Tools:
Metrics: The Power Usage Efficiency (PUE), Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) and the Carbon Footprint Metric of the site are displayed in real time.
Energy Cost Analysis: This tool is designed to project energy costs from real-time data. It allows kilowatt rates to be entered and it will calculate the power cost of each PDU’s.
Power One Line Diagram: A schematic drawing of the power path displaying the status, in real-time, at each point within the path.
Chiller System Loop Diagram: It depicts the total chiller system showing the pumps activity, the chill water flow rate is gallons per minutes and the temperature of the water exiting and returning to the chillers.
Power Capacity Planning: The Power Capacity Planning diagram shows the total power chain of the site. It reports in real time the power usage and remaining capacity of RPP’s, PDU’s, UPS’s, and ATS’s, switch gear, generators and utility service(s).
It’s designed for user interaction. Load amounts can be added and/or reduced to show the effect that it will have on the total power chain.
Maintenance Scheduler: Alerts can be program into the calendar that will schedule the required service on all the equipment.
Documentation Center: The documentation center is designed to hold all the pertain information on the equipment such as vendors installation manuals. This feature provides one location where all the information can be kept and is easily accessible when maintains is required on the equipment.
Equipment Summaries: Provides a summary view of the site’s CRAC units, PDU’s, RPP’s and UPS’s.
- CRAC Units Summary: Charts the status, temperature, humidity values and depicts the cooling, heating, dehumidification, humidification and EconoCycle of each CRAC unit.
- PDU’s Summary: provides voltage, current and power on phases: A-B, B-C, and C-A and the average of the phases with the total consumption of each PDU’s.
- RPP’s Summary: summarizes the current and the capacity of each RPP’s.
- UPS’s Summary: provides output voltage, current and power on all three phases along with the output voltage frequencies.
View All Equipment Overview: Listing of all critical mission equipment; classified in the area that they are located showing the status of each piece of equipment.
Displays
The software is provides a series of displays:
- Global Display: the global display is the opening screen that shows the location of all sites that are connected to the infrastructure monitoring software. The location can be depicted on a global map or a campus arrangement. This screen is required to show all alarms and alerts.
- Site Screen: represent the location that was chosen from the Global Display. The screen will provide a three dimensional view of the site with the user defined areas highlighted. This screen is requires to change the color of the area from green to red when an alert is received to allow quick response to the alert.
- Floor Plan: The site floor plan is a bird’s eye view of the center. This display is capable of having multiple views. Views that can be included:
- Equipment View: this floor plan of the site presents the critical mission equipment and cabinets at the location of the site. This screen is required to change the equipment status color from green to red when the unit has been alarmed. By clicking on the equipment it is required to display the equipment monitoring screen
- Thermo-graphic View: this screen depicts the thermo conditions in the aisles. The data is collected and displayed in real time.
- Leak Detection View: This view shows the area below the raised floor. Where the detection cable is located and the length markers of the cable. When a leak is detected this screen will show the location of the leak.
Views and Screens can be customized for any application.
Reports:
History: Provides a listing of all equipment being monitored by the software. By clicking on the triangular icon next to the individual device or factor the history trending screens appears. Using the time range dialog box the historical trend is created.
The Time Range Dialog box options are:
· Today
· Last 24 hours
· Week to Date
· Last week
· Last 7 days
· Month to Date
· Last Month
· Year to Date
· Last Year
The clock icon allows user’s requested time and date spread to be presented.
History Chart Builder: This feature is designed to allow comparison of devices being monitored. It has a Time Range Dialog box options as found in History Report.
Individual Circuits: reports on the circuit usage in wattage, voltage, power factor and kilowatts per hour.
Cabinet Monitoring Report: This report includes all circuits located within the cabinet: the individual circuit and A/B redundancy pairing(s) current, power and power factor is produces. User defined threshold are deployed on the individual and the paired circuits.
Optional features available include:
· Attaching report to interactive floor plan cabinet placement with “hover over feature.
· Conversions of power load of the cabinet, to heat loads (BTU’s) and heat load to CFM requirements (estimated or actual).
Client User Report: The client user report allows grouping of circuits to create a summary of the user total power consumption over a pre-described set of time produces in kilowatts per hours and carbon footprint.
Client User Billing: The software has to be able to accumulate the data on individual circuits and user groupings and transfer the data into a third party accounting/billing software system.
All reports must be able to be exported to Microsoft Excel or Adobe PDF. | 
