Use Cases

Capacity Forecasting

Understand current capacity and utilization in preparation for a relocation or major migration

Customer Challenge

Our Approach

Leverage LiveDC to capture real time metrics of power consumed at the UPS, PDU or cabinet PDU level.
Real time results capturing, nightly, weekly, monthly peaks
Forecast future load increases

Solution & Results

Objective data eliminated the guess work on power/cooling capacity needed and reduced the total cost of build out

Collocation Vendor Risk Assessment

Make informed decisions on collocation providers using a LiveDC field kit

Customer Challenge

As a new data center owner, need to evaluate cooling and power demands for critical spaces to make informed decision on how to proceed long-term

Our Approach

Deploy a non-intrusive LiveDC test kit in critical spaces to determine current temperatures, cooling needs

Solution & Results

Thorough report outlining cooling and power demands allowing the customer to make an informed decision on how to proceed in data center business

Phase Level Monitoring

Reduce risk and avoid outages by ensuring power is balanced at the side and phase level

Customer Challenge

3 phase PDU balance was unmanaged, resulting in multiple outages as critical loads increased
With no ability to monitor—especially over time as load changes—they were unable to expand due to risk

The Approach

Implemented LiveDC power monitoring down to the phase and created custom maps representing each phase’s load by color gradient making it easy to visually identify when phases are out of balance.
Notification alerts were also set up to email/text the operations team when phases, circuits, or total cabinet utilization reached defined kW thresholds.

Solution & Results

Easily see problem areas without logging into hundreds of devices- Picture is worth 1,000 words
Reduced risk of phases being overloaded

MDF/IDF Room Monitoring

Keep track of refresh cycles for ancillary but critical spaces by monitoring battery runtime in power equipment

Customer Challenge
- When managing numerous business-critical MDF/IDF closets, setting alarm thresholds on UPS and PDUs only shows point-in-time issues, not historic information or trend insights.
- Without reliable monitoring, older PDUs and UPS equipment will fail unexpectedly, potentially causing financial strain on top of outages
- Facilities and IT will debate SLA management of spaces
The Approach
- Implemented proactive LiveDC power monitoring to understand when battery runtimes are falling below recommended thresholds
- Easy-to-read riser map views of entire buildings show key metric points being monitored per IDF for an entire campus
- Gather and keep results for historic measurements to understand patterns and trends of issues
Solution & Results
- Predictive identification of UPS Failure
- Single view of critical spaces across an entire campus
- Thermal issue identification of off-hour cooling issues
- Track upcoming refresh needs based on battery integrity and other indicators
- Reduced risk of business impact related to equipment failure