The use of infrared thermography or thermal imaging in the data center is becoming a widely-utilized predictive tool that’s vital to helping to ensure uptime at all levels. Power, cooling and support systems are all vital to the continuous flow of information in data centers, and performing predictive maintenance on critical support infrastructure is a must and should be considered a critical component when planning out your regular data center maintenance schedule.
Data Centers today are the critical “cannot fail” support operations for most of the companies. As density increases so does heat dissipation within a data centre or server room environment. Periodic thermal imaging inspections are crucial to ensure maximum resilience and continuity for IT services. Efficiently and effectively managing the maintenance of power, cooling and support systems is not only vital but mandatory to the continuous flow of information in your mission-critical facility. The impacts of shutting down, even for short periods of time, can cost thousands of dollars.
A thermal imager is an industrial tool that displays and has an ability to store two-dimensional images of an object’s surface temperatures. All objects emit infrared radiation based on their temperatures; thermal imaging makes it possible to view equipment temperature conditions – which are invisible to the naked eye. This enables you to easily detect anomalies in the temperatures of electrical or mechanical components, that are hotter or colder than similar objects within the same environment.
Thermal Imaging for Electrical switchgear, Transformers and utility equipment, UPS (uninterruptible power supply), Generators, ATS (automatic transfer switches), control panels and breakers, should be performed on regular basis to detect irregularities proactively to avoid any downtime. Thermal Imaging highlights overheating components, cable termination, lugs, bolts, loose connection, over load cables, fuses, imbalance, damage etc.
Temperature plays an important role in maintaining a stable and efficient data center. Ensuring that server racks and network equipment are kept within safe operating temperatures is key to sustaining the life span and functionality of your critical equipment. Thermal imaging of data center racks and equipment can be performed to measure the cooling effectiveness in cold aisle and overheating equipment or irregularities in airflow.
Data center infrared thermography can also help identify mechanical issues such as hot spots. A thorough analysis can indicate areas that might compromise data center network reliability caused by high-heat. This will enable you to create solutions that will help customer to solve the problem as well as helping to reduce operating costs.
Thermal Imaging monitor the areas where air enters and heat is expelled from server racks propelled by built-in fans. Both a thermal imager and temperature/airflow meter are useful for monitoring air cooling effectiveness. Generally speaking, customer can map cooling patterns into, out of and around server racks and confirm whether cooling is adequate or not. Such monitoring identifies where to install perforated panels to improve circulation or blanking plates to keep hot air from entering empty slots on unfilled racks.
ENERGENIQ has right tools and certified thermal professionals to provide infrared thermography for Data Centers, commercial buildings, power distribution companies and industrial sector, for electrical and mechanical system.