Continuous Thermal Monitoring
Continuous Thermal Monitoring (CTM) collects and analyzes the monitored temperature of critical electrical assets within your data center. If the electrical equipment within your infrastructure overheats, equipment fails costing your company a lot money and a lot of headaches. CTM is an important element that contributes to power availability and system uptime.
Why Thermal Monitoring is so important
An increase in temperatures, especially on electrical joints, is typically a warning sign that potential issues such as a loose or compromised connection may be present. Left unchecked, there is an increased risk of electrical equipment failure, which can put personnel working on or around these critical electrical assets at higher risk for injury. Monitoring the temperature of electrical joints helps not only to avoid downtime and damage to critical infrastructure that can otherwise lead to reduced efficiency, corrupt data, or equipment failure, but it can also help keep personnel safe around assets.
Data center operators face several challenges, but equipment overheating is one of the most critical. Overheating equipment can lead to unplanned downtime, which has a detrimental effect on service reliability for customers and leads to significant financial and reputational costs. As reliance on data increases, there is a greater need for technology such as continuous thermal monitoring to help prevent outages and avoid unplanned downtime.
Here is a case study on Thermal Monitoring solutions for the data centers. For additional information, here is The Guide to Condition Monitoring for Electrical Infrastructure.
