WHY ATTENTION TO DETAIL MAKES
A BIG DIFFERENCE IN GETTING THE MOST OUT OF
YOUR UPS BATTERY INVESTMENT
Battery Management System Insights Paper.
The higher your uptime standards, the more you need continuous battery monitoring. A tier 4 data center can only afford less than 0.05% downtime, which equates to 26 minutes over the whole year.
Data centers are complex operations requiring skilled management across multiple areas, such as facilities, power, air conditioning, IT infrastructure, physical and cyber security, compliance, and vendor management. Attention to detail in every area can make the difference in delivering on your availability promise. This is especially true for managing your UPS battery investment.
Two facets, installation and commissioning and ongoing monitoring, are key to staying on top of all the small things that make a difference. The challenge for data center operators is that UPS batteries are a long-term investment during which seemingly insignificant issues can have a material effect on battery life, backup reliability, and even facility safety.
HOW TO SEE AND MANAGE THE MANY SMALL THINGS THAT ASSURE YOUR UPS BATTERIES WILL WORK WHEN NEEDED AND LAST LONGER.
Installation and Commissioning
It starts with quality installation and commissioning of the batteries. Again, small things can make a big difference. We recommend using the IEEE/IEC battery management standards, which have detailed design, installation and battery management guidelines. Battery manufacturers also have good documentation on handling, installing and preparing stationary batteries for service.
The insights paper covers IEEE standards and how they can help you get the most out of your UPS battery investment. It also discusses why commissioning and discharge tests for UPS batteries can help detect issues and ensure timely fixes.
Battery monitoring and management
Small installation and commissioning errors can have large impacts on your UPS battery investment over time and increase the risk of a failure in backup power during an outage. Equally important to paying attention to the small things at the start is monitoring batteries over time.
Read about two real-world examples of UPS battery issues, and answer the question, ‘How do you reduce the risk of these small things impacting your UPS battery investment?’
Risk management
Managing a data center is a complex operational challenge, and batteries represent a relatively small element. They are also the single largest cause of UPS failure. Applying specialised technology in the form of a continuous battery monitoring system is the single biggest improvement that you can make to effectively manage all of the components required to extract maximum performance from your UPS batteries.
We discuss how a continuous battery monitoring system can help you to reduce the risk of ‘small things’ impacting your UPS battery investment.
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WHAT WE DO
We make sure your stand-by batteries are actually standing by.
If you’re operating mission critical systems and relying on the protection of a UPS and battery bank, then it makes sense to have a battery monitoring and management system. It’s about peace of mind – knowing that the batteries are healthy and being constantly monitored. Knowing that everything has been done, that can be done, to protect your enterprise from the consequences of a power failure.
PowerShield provides the most advanced and most cost-effective tool for monitoring and managing stand-by battery banks. PowerShield’s continuous data sampling, reporting and battery management capability delivers reduced costs, gives peace of mind and, most importantly, ensures that you have batteries that perform when needed.
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