ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION IN DATA CENTRES: And why power quality monitoring is mission-critical

摘要

Power outages or power quality issues in mission-critical environments such as data centres, hospitals and industrial process plants can have devastating consequences and lead to financial losses, damage to reputation and reduced business. Mission-critical applications have complex electrical distribution systems and it is essential that end-users monitor key parameters affecting power quality such as leakage currents, neutral-ground voltage, voltage stability, wave shape and harmonics. Equally, effective monitoring of power usage is essential to minimise energy consumption and running costs and meet environmental legislation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) targets.