Environmental Monitoring Solution for a Global Data Center Operator with $4.5bn+ in Revenue
- facilities worldwide
- 300
- sensors deployed
- 7000+
- Uptime Over 5Y
- 97%+
- higher HVAC efficiency
- 20%
Challenges
The client needed real-time environmental and power visibility across a global colocation portfolio to support SLA compliance.
Legacy sensors did not consistently report thermal anomalies and humidity fluctuations, limiting capacity forecasting and thermal risk management.
Diverse facility systems, power distribution assets, and monitoring gaps required a maintainable and scalable architecture for consistent cross-site operational insight.
Technologies
- Ignition
- EPMS
- BMS
- wireless temperature and humidity sensors
- Ethernet gateways
- power distribution units
- RPPs
- predictive alerts
- packet power
Solution
Deployed more than 7,000 wireless temperature and humidity sensors across 300 facilities to collect real-time environmental telemetry.
Integrated sensor data with Ignition-based EPMS and BMS instances.
Configured dashboards, alarms, metadata, and standardized commissioning protocols to improve anomaly detection, reporting quality, and maintainability.
Audited monitoring gaps and configured reliable data transmission from power distribution units and RPPs.
Outcomes delivered
97%+ uptime across global environmental monitoring infrastructure.
100% telemetry logging SLA met across a 5,000+ customer portfolio.
Improved environmental sensor reliability by 20% or more.
Installed wireless monitors in 10% of prior time.