RF Code announced the latest versions of its
market-leading asset tracking and environmental monitoring solutions. RF Code
solutions reduce the time and cost of tracking and managing IT assets and the
environments in which they reside.
Among the new features in both Asset Manager and Sensor
Manager are advanced event notification and configurable visual dashboards to
display key asset and environmental data. In addition, Asset Manager now
provides GPS reader support, making it possible to track, in real time, assets
in mobile locations such as trucks and ships.
Moreover, Sensor Manager now incorporates Ancis’ Rack
Cooling Index (RCI) and Rack Return Index (RTI) performance metrics. These are
complementary metrics for understanding data center air management: IT cooling
(reliability) and CRAC efficiency.
The need for absolute accuracy around a company’s IT
asset inventory is emerging as a top priority for leading companies,” said
Chris Gaskins, vice president, Product Development at RF Code.
While the need for critical environmental and power
monitoring data is already top-of-mind for today’s data center managers. We’re
meeting these twin challenges with an open approach that lets customers take
advantage of our solutions in a way that meets their needs: as standalone
solutions or integrated into their existing DCIM, EAM, ERP, BMS, Help Desk or
other systems,” Gaskins added.
Notifications are sent when an event, such as the
movement of an asset, needs to trigger a consequent action by a third party
application such as a work order system. For example, a work order application
may rely on IT asset movement data from Asset Manager as part of its
decision-making” in concert with a change management order.
By simplifying how data is exchanged between these
applications, RF Code makes it easy for consuming applications to get timely
data on which to base an action.
With these latest software versions, dashboards are now
much more powerful, displaying summary data in a variety of user-chosen
graphical formats. Using multiple types of widgets, users can easily create
standard dials, LED dials, LCD displays, graphs, bar charts, graphs, asset
grids and more to display aggregated data that all internal users can view.
Moreover, users have full control over these widgets,
allowing them to determine colors, sizing, fonts, numerical range and more.
RF Code’s M250 reader now supports a Garmin GPS device,
which provides real-time GPS data to the reader. When coupled with a GSM, G3 or
G4 communication device, the GPS-enabled reader can be installed on mobile
locations such as trucks, fork-lifts or ships that house tagged assets.
Once installed, the reader then reports precise
geospatial location information about the mobile location and its asset
contents back to the RF Code software. Information is dynamically updated as
the mobile assets move.
RCI is a measure of compliance with ASHRAE or NEBS intake
temperature guidelines expressed as a percentage. RTI is a measure of net
by-pass or net recirculation air expressed as a percentage. By leveraging these
metrics, Sensor Manager helps provide data that will sustain optimal IT equipment
reliability and avoid overcooling.
RF Code recently introduced
a tethered temperature sensor. The new sensor, the R151, provides deployment
flexibility that enables accurate temperature monitoring of critical areas that
are not conducive to traditional sensor placement. Such areas range from
industrial refrigerators housing expensive drugs to the area below a raised
floor in a data center.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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