Power and energy monitoring
Remotely monitoring key power assets including energy meters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), intelligent power distribution units (iPDUs) and diesel generators.
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Spook's award winning remote monitoring service called OmniWatch centrally monitors key power assets across many different industry sectors.
Monitoring various power assets is important for many reasons, whether it's monitoring UPS metrics, intelligent power distribution units or incoming energy meters, the range of power monitoring by Spook is extensive.
Spook and OmniWatch was voted Specialist Technology Company of the Year and Most Innovative Solution of the Year at the annual UK CIR Business Continuity Awards.
Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
UPS units are used to protect critical power loads from utility-supplied power problems, including spikes, brownouts, fluctuations and power outages. UPS units use dedicated batteries to provide seamless power in the event of a mains power outage. Most UPS systems are designed to provide relatively short amounts of power as diesel generators are invoked to provide more long term secure power.
Intelligent power distribution units (iPDU)
By monitoring power consumption at PDU level an organisation can measure energy used to asset level. Being aware of realtime power usage means informed load balancing procedures can be implemented to prevent power overloads and protect service outages due to loss off power.
Energy meters
Energy meter monitoring is the process of measuring energy consumption for the whole or part of a facilities utility incoming power.
By measuring the incoming energy means granular consumption can be understood too, from energy sub-sets to individual assets.
Diesel generators
Generators provide a continuous stream of secure power and are designed for continual use. Any organisation that controls mission critical applications can benefit from having a generator available as a reliable power source.
Understanding core generator metrics in realtime ensures power security is maintained.
PUE and DCiE
PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and DCiE (Data Centre infrastructure Efficiency) are industry standard benchmarks comparing the overall energy used for a data centers infrastructure versus its energy used for the existing IT load.
By measuring these efficiency benchmarks in realtime means ongoing efforts to gain the best ratings can be achieved.
Public utilities
OmniWatch works with any utility service providers meters and any organisations individual assets via a full range of IoT sensors.
OmniWatch empowers organisations data managers to accurately understand key consumption data across multi-platforms and equipment types.
New to monitoring
We help organisations start monitoring projects from scratch. We have a wealth of experience that is free and helpful in creating an informed approach to monitoring.
We are also resellers to industry leading sensor and equipment manufacturers and can recommend the most appropriate hardware and sensors to fit any size monitoring project.
We had been considering monitoring for a while but did not have the resource or the knowledge to fully understand how to go about doing things from scratch.
We approached Spook as they have lots of experience in looking independently at monitoring projects. They recommended and provided the most appropriate hardware and sensors for us.
The sensors arrived pre-configured and were implemented on OmniWatch by Spook before we installed them.
Additional monitoring
Many of our customers have tried monitoring for themselves.
This ranges from institutions that rely on equipment onboard data loggers and communications cards; to organisations that have started monitoring projects but need help to extend monitoring to new areas and/or implement a central monitoring solution.
We needed a remote monitoring service that did not require an on premise PC and was independent of our network.
Spook provided pre-configured cellular routers for each of our five locations across the UK. The whole project was a simple plug-and-play solution with no involvement from us.
We had been considering monitoring for a while but did not have the resource or the knowledge to fully understand how to go about doing things.
When we Googled the various areas of interest we got more confused.
We approached Spook as they have a different outlook to simply buying hardware and sensors. Thankfully we now have a fully installed, joined up monitoring solution.
We had a series of climate monitors installed in our server rooms. Due to a change in our security policy we needed a remote monitoring service that did not require an on premise PC and was independent of our network.
Spook suggested a technology upgrade and provided pre-configured cellular routers for each of our five server locations across the UK. The whole project was a simple plug-and-play solution with no involvement from us.
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Please contact us if you wish for further information on how Spook can help with your environmental and power monitoring needs.