- Data centers are among the highest energy-consuming facilities globally, with power and cooling systems as major energy users
- Continuous monitoring of UPS systems, power distribution units, sensors, fans, pumps, chillers, and field controllers helps operators identify inefficiency, support uptime, and improve sustainability across the facility
Case Studies
Data Center Energy Nerve System
26 Jun 2026Industrial gateways and cybersecurity nodes for monitoring data-center power, cooling, and OT field devices continuously.
Overview
ChallengesThe main challenges were
- Operators face fragmented visibility across distributed systems and remote assets
- high installation costs
- limited scalability
- integration complexity with legacy equipment
- limited predictive-maintenance capability
- manual inspection effort — and field devices themselves can become cybersecurity weak points in a distributed monitoring environment if they're not properly secured
ObjectivesThe system needed to
- Collect power-quality
- electrical
- temperature
- vibration
- flow data continuously; improve energy and cooling efficiency; support predictive maintenance; reduce downtime; and secure field-device communication using an industrial cybersecurity layer
Solution DeliveredThe solution included
- Industrial gateways were connected to UPS systems, power distribution units, smart sensors, temperature sensors, vibration sensors, and flow sensors, collecting data for both power-efficiency monitoring and cooling-system monitoring at the same time
- That gave the facilities team near-real-time visibility of abnormal loads, cooling performance, and mechanical anomalies from one consolidated feed rather than checking each subsystem separately
- A cybersecurity gateway added Zero Trust-style protection on top — encrypted communication, firewall policies, secure remote access, TPM-backed device identity, LAN bypass, and redundant power — so the monitoring layer itself didn't become the facility's weakest security link even as it touched every critical power and cooling system in the building
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Conclusion
Data centres are now large, mission-critical power consumers. We see how energy efficiency, uptime, cooling reliability, and cybersecurity are brought into one practical edge-infrastructure.
