Strategies for Contemporary Data Hubs
Phoenix Contact, a global leader in electrical engineering and electronics, is revolutionizing the data center industry with its suite of solutions designed to boost efficiency, reliability, and resilience. These solutions focus on power distribution, energy resilience, and monitoring/control.
Building Automation and Energy Monitoring
Phoenix Contact's building automation and energy monitoring solutions, leveraging the Niagara Framework, optimize energy consumption through comprehensive monitoring and load management. They support the integration of renewable energy sources and offer data-driven insights to enhance operational efficiency in data centers.
Power Distribution and Connectors
The company's Heavycon Data Center connectors are designed to optimize power transmission from the Power Distribution Unit (PDU) to IT racks, supporting robust power transmission up to 70 A. The low contact resistance of these crimp contacts reduces energy consumption by up to 60% and lowers heat generation, thereby reducing cooling needs.
Control Cabinets Wiring
Phoenix Contact's Push-X and Combi plug-in zone terminal blocks simplify and expedite wiring in control cabinet building, enabling more efficient and reliable connections between field components and preassembled connectors.
System Monitoring and Data Analysis
Phoenix Contact’s PLCnext Technology combined with Smart Services facilitates seamless data analysis and system monitoring in industrial environments, including data centers. This supports improved system oversight, predictive maintenance, and resilience against operational disruptions.
Secure Remote Access
With mGuard Secure Cloud, Phoenix Contact provides secure remote access to machines and systems globally, enhancing operational resilience by allowing control and diagnostics even from remote locations.
These solutions collectively support energy efficiency, power reliability, and advanced monitoring/control capabilities essential for modern data centers to handle demands such as high power densities and integration of renewables while improving system resilience and reducing operational costs.
Partnership and Integrated Solutions
Phoenix Contact partners with suppliers and end users to provide sustainable technologies that add value and ensure optimal efficiencies and reliability for continuous data center operation. Integrated, coordinated supply concepts from Phoenix Contact, including power supply in UPS systems, device protection, and surge protection, help prevent system failures and downtime caused by lightning strikes and current peaks.
Monitoring and Control for Sustainability
Phoenix Contact's solutions for monitoring and control support centralized control, reducing manual intervention and errors, and resulting in lower operating costs, greater user convenience, and a more sustainable data center environment. They improve the sustainability of data centers by optimizing energy consumption and integrating renewable energy sources.
Addressing Unplanned Downtime
Phoenix Contact's solutions effectively address unplanned system failures and downtime due to unpredictable risk factors like lightning strikes and current peaks. By ensuring a continuous and stable power supply, Phoenix Contact aims to contribute to the All-Electric Society, a vision where electrical energy is affordable and abundant for state-of-the-art data centers.
In conclusion, Phoenix Contact's range of solutions is transforming the data center landscape, offering innovative and sustainable solutions that prioritize energy efficiency, power reliability, and advanced monitoring/control capabilities.
- Phoenix Contact's solutions for monitoring and control, such as PLCnext Technology and Smart Services, not only reduce manual intervention and errors, but also optimize energy consumption and integrate renewable energy sources, contributing to a more sustainable data center environment.
- Leveraging technologies like Heavycon Data Center connectors, Push-X and Combi plug-in zone terminal blocks, and mGuard Secure Cloud, Phoenix Contact's integrated infrastructure solutions facilitate data-driven insights, optimize power transmission, and ensure secure remote access, thereby enhancing the energy efficiency, power reliability, and resilience of data centers.
