Critical Power Monitoring Project Case

Study
Presented by:

Andy Banks
Power Management Director
Mardix Ltd
 Project Overview

Purpose built Colocation Data Centre facility in the

UK

>30MVA capacity (supplied at 33kV); 8,500m2

technical space

2N design (Uptime Institute Tier III)

Design PUE = 1.22

Build in phases; Phase 1 = 1MW IT Load

Mardix supplied:
400V Switchgear
iPDUs
 PMS Design Requirements

The PMS specification:

Monitoring status of power, HV&LV breakers,

Generators, UPS and BTUs with head-end
server dual redundancy

Metering from 11kV to 400/230V PDU branch

circuits to server racks, including providing PUE

Providing reliable and cost effective active kW

load and kWh billing information for tenant
racks that could be managed by the site
operations and customer services teams
including data for tenant 3rd party billing
software
 Data Gathering Hardware

Metering:
ION7350, PM820 & PM750

Hardwired volt free status

Advantys I/O modules

ModBus comms from Generators &

PM/BCPMA
EGX100 Ethernet gateway

PDU Branch Circuit Monitoring

Mardix iPDU c/w BCPMA and M340
PLC

In-rack intelligent power strips

 PMS Software Platforms

CitectSCADA v7.3
Provides graphics with real-time status,
alarms and hyperlinks to metering
(PME)
PME v7.2
Provides PQ and real-time values and
logging from metering, PDU branch
circuit monitoring & in-rack intelligent
power strips
Provides main load & PUE reporting
Mardix ims
Harvests data from PME SQL database
End user, web browser configurable
tenant rack power views with alerts and
 Mardix ims Architecture

Remote Access

Web Browser

Internet HTTPS Secure Socket Layer

(SSL)

Mardix ims Server Mardix ims Web Server

Mardix ims SQL Database
Push .csv files to client
SMTP server (via SFTP)
Mardix ims 3rd
rd Party Data
for 3rd party billing
API

Private Local or Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN)

PME Server
Mardix PME
API
PME SQL Database
 PMS Network Architecture

CITECTSCADA SERVER CITECTSCADA SERVER

A B
MARDIX ims
SERVER OPERATOR OPERATOR
PME SERVER WORKSTATION WORKSTATION

CORE MANAGED CORE MANAGED

ETHERNET ETHERNET
SWITCH INTELLIGENT SWITCH
EDGE ETHERNET INTELLIGENT RACK EDGE ETHERNET
RACK POWER
SWITCH POWER STRIPS SWITCH
STRIPS
UP UP UP UP UP UP UP
HV GEN GEN GEN UPS GEN GEN GEN HV
S S S S S S S
1A 1A 2A 3A MB 3B 2B 1B 1B
1A 2A 3A MA 3B 2B 1B

UPS O/P MECH

HV RTU PACKAGE MECH UPS O/P PACKAGE HV RTU
SW/BD SW/BD
1A D SUB 1A SW/BD 1B SW/BD 1B D SUB 1B 1B
1A 1A

iPDU 1A iPDU 2A iPDU 3A iPDU 4A iPDU 4B iPDU 3B iPDU 2B iPDU 1B

CABLE KEY

FIBRE OPTIC
CAT5E (MODBUS TCP/IP)
BELDEN 8723 (MODBUS RTU SERIAL)
1MMSQ MULTI-CORE (HARDWIRED VOLT FREE CONTACTS)
Mardix ims Customer (Tenant)
Configuration
Mardix ims Rack Assignment
Configuration
Mardix ims Rack Feeds
Configuration
Mardix ims Sample Billing
Report
 Commissioning & Testing

The project was commissioned and tested to ASHRAE

(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-
Conditioning Engineers) 2011 Handbook HVAC Applications:

Level 1 product testing prior to shipment to the site

Level 2 file component verification upon receipt

Level 3 field inspections and certifications

Level 4 site acceptance testing (4 weeks actual)

Level 5 integrated systems testing (2 weeks actual)

 Current PMS Statistics

108no. Ethernet network connected

devices

Monitoring:

1,052no. volt free contacts

106no. meters, 6no. generators and

8no. UPS

1,152no. server rack feeds

18no. intelligent in-rack power strips

Monthly billing reports for >30no. tenants

 Our View on Delivering a Successful Critical Power
PMS
Know your PMS solution and the requirements of the project

Establish early and clear lines of communication with all parties

Produce a clear and detailed Functional Design Specification before

commencing

Work to a programme detailing all dependencies and requirements

Commission and test as much as possible off site, under factory

conditions

Take charge of your own success

Be prepared to react to issues as they arise.because they will

 Thank You!

Danke sehr!