Apw President Systems Limited

Non-invasive AC Electrical Current Monitoring Technology.

An asset for improving energy efficiency for legacy data centres.

The CL-Amp is a purpose-built monitoring solution for retrofit, newly built and legacy electrical installation monitoring. It enables legacy data centres to be monitored and managed (in order to regain power and cooling capacity), without scheduled power downtime associated with traditional monitoring technologies.

The CL-Amp increases visibility of power demand in a cost effective and efficient ‘non-invasive’ manner, providing users far greater control in the ability to identify available capacity, make informed decisions, calculate ‘what-if’ scenarios, perform risk analysis and drive down costs, thereby greatly improving the drive for energy efficiency.

An open fork in the CL-Amp enables it to be placed directly over a power cable and a choice of locking-ring collars to suit most international 13A, 16A and 32A cable sizes are provided. Each locking-ring separates into two halves and is placed around the power cable and pushed into the CL-Amp clamping bore, retaining the cable with a neat twist and lock action. A very lightweight device, it is designed to be installed at any convenient location on the cable.

CL-Amp Features

• Uses patented technology for current measurement in the data centre, computer room and PC environments.
• A small compact electrical current meter capable of non-invasively measuring real-time A.C. currents on typical data centre power supply feeds rated up to 32A.
• High quality robust plastic, conforming to international electrical and EMC standards.
• Attachment does NOT require power down of the measured feed.
• CL-Amp appears as a standard PDU input to the PowerHawk-2, Hawk-i2, Hawk-i3 and Eagle-i units for remote monitoring and real time alerting.
• Capable of measuring A.C. electrical currents up to 60A.
• Can be used to bring monitoring functionality to non-intelligent power strips.

Access control is the ability to permit or deny a particular resource by a particular entity.

In current layouts, physical access control to datacenters is at the entrance to the datacenter, where banks of enclosures are deployed in some formal way.

As each enclosure or rack houses critical equipment and applications, it should be considered as a ‘mini datacenter’ and appropriate physical security methods should be adopted to secure access to it.

• 5×2 matrix type
• Powered directly from keypad port on monitoring and control device
• Supplied with 2m ribbon cable with 450mm of plastic flexible conduit for protection within the cabinet

Handle

An electronic locking swing handle with blue/red LED status indicator provides intelligent local and remote functionality of a manual latching system with the added benefit of electronic locking for access control.

The modular design accommodates single or multi-point latching with a low power, gear motor driven lock mechanism and high security DIN lock manual override. The lock directly integrates with industry standard rack monitoring / access control systems. Integrated sensors detect lock and latch status for network control, monitoring and alarm functions.

The primary aim of the Hawk-i³ product is to produce a cost effective monitoring and control solution for power, environmental and physical access control parameters using a single IP address, to allow users to monitor and control external devices via a network attached unit.

The Hawk-i³ is a network attached device, which may be controlled and monitored over a TCP/IP, 10/100Mbps Ethernet network through SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS, and is capable of monitoring sensors and controlling power strip outlets and output relays, allowing other network attached devices to interrogate and send commands to the Hawk-i³.

To achieve flexibility with a focus on security, ease of use and increased monitoring support, the Hawk-i³ supports a maximum of four monitor and control power strips, supporting both RS232 and RS485 serial port communication protocols, which will monitor Volts, Amps, kVA, kWh, Power Factor and Frequency from the power strip. Furthermore, the Hawk-i³ also supports two serial keypads, or smart card readers, to control access to the cabinets via solenoid or motorised activated door locks, one external LCD display unit and six sensor inputs, which may be any combination of temperature, humidity, voltage free contact sensor and 0-10VDC analogue input voltage.

The Hawk-i³ also supports an intuitive web based graphical user interface, eliminating the need for complex serial setup processes. The web server within the unit supports HTTP/HTTPS network protocols, allowing the user to securely configure, monitor and control the Hawk-i³ via a username and password access control system.

Features

• SNMP agent specifically aimed and optimised for rack management, where all I/O and control functions may be monitored and controlled through the SNMP protocol.

• Ideal for per cabinet or per two cabinet installations.

• Supports up to 4 intelligent power strip or CL-Amp channels, 6 input channels, 2 output channels and 2 access control channels.

• Supplied as 1U, 19” rack mountable unit.

• Designed to conform to the relevant CE and UL, FCC certification standards.