Elipse Software

Usually, Data Centers use different systems for different management needs:

• Energy: Large data centers require a substation monitoring system, generators and backup energy sources, protections, and feeders.
• BMS (Building Management System): Manages cooling, ventilation, and humidity equipment (Cold Water Units, chillers, compressors, VAVs, access control, and other ancillary systems).
• DCIM: Contains a digital catalog of all equipment available, monitors intelligent indicators (energy consumption from each rack/device), and allows for planning and expanding the system, among other tasks.
• IT Monitoring: Monitors the health of equipment, services, and the network, in order to be able to respond quickly whenever a failure is detected.

With Elipse DCIM, you can unify these systems into a single platform, either integrated or distributed among different servers, in order to facilitate the everyday routine of managers and operators, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiency!

Architecture

Elipse DCIM is a modular solution for data centers’s real-time planning, management, traceability, and intelligence. Very flexible, it can easily connect to pre-existing software systems, hardware, and processes, with wide-ranging ability to accommodate new implementations and integrations.

The purpose of our product is that end-users themselves (or their solution providers) can have full control of all adjustments in the system, such as adding or removing racks and equipment.

The fundamental principles of this solution are:

• DCIM model: Via Netbox® integration, we keep a modeling of all assets requiring real-time monitoring, such as sites, floors, racks, equipment, and their connections. So, in addition to the connections in real time, Netbox® provides a platform for processing all data pertaining to those assets. The goal of this platform is to generate indicators and reports that meet different management needs.
• Data integration: Through an extensive list of I/O drivers, we are able to connect to any piece of equipment in the data center, as well as to other systems via APIs. With support to Zabbix® agents, we are also able to monitor machines and services running in Linux and Windows servers. Additionally, our development staff is specialized in creating new communication interfaces to meet specific needs.
• Real-time management: Operate your system in real time, monitor assets and equipment commands, and manage alarms, events, graphic analyses, and reports from any device (Desktop, Web, and Smartphones) via Elipse E3 and Elipse Mobile.
• Power & Energy management: We can cover any energy monitoring and control requirements with Elipse Power tools and modules. It includes (but is not limited to): substations and switchboards monitoring, failure analyses, emergency load shedding, quality management, and connection to IEDs and energy meters.

• Data intelligence and smart analysis: With Elipse Plant Manager (EPM), we can turn collected data into useful information for identifying improvement opportunities, calculating indicators, and applying intelligence algorithms, which will provide DC managers with all the information necessary for making informed decisions for the system.

Features

Assets Modeling

Using a Netbox connection, dynamically synchronize your assets modeling, such as Sites, Floors, Cages, Racks, and Devices, directly on the platform at regular intervals or on demand. This will allow you to execute customized routines for each asset.

 

Connectivity

We have more than 450 I/O drivers that communicate with several different pieces of equipment, controllers, and IoT, including protocols such as Bacnet, SNMP, Modbus, and MQTT. With them, you can map assets variables and follow their performance in real time.

Energy

We offer solutions for any of the DC’s energy monitoring demands, like substations or primary cabins, backup generators, circuits, distribution, and sector-specific measurements. Get comparative studies and analyses on how each sector, rack, or client consumes energy, and use them as the starting point on energy efficiency measures.

Environmental Controls

By integrating BMS and DCIM functions, you can monitor the whole HVAC infrastructure, especially temperature and humidity, and follow its impact via heat maps, both inside and outside the racks. You can also simulate the thermal impact of adding new racks and equipment.

 

Planing and Expansion

Gauge the impact of adding new equipment to the system beforehand by checking power overload and space allocation in the racks. You can simulate space and power consumption through time and its impacts in the operation.

Documentation and Traceability

We propose a methodology for registering the DC’s assets where all the information pertaining wiring and connections, as well as the localization of equipment and racks, is stored in a single place. With this, you can easily access the data center’s as-built documentation, maintain traceability of changes made to the system and locate them on the floors, and improve data organization and agility in your operations.

Calculation of Indicators

This solution allows calculations based on historic and real-time data in order to obtain indicators such as PUE or any other required customization. The EPM Processor, integrated to a Python-language API, enables you to convert data and send alerts or alarms whenever any deviation is detected.

Projections and Algorithms

Similarly to what happens with the calculation of indicators, the EPM Processor executes artificial intelligence algorithms, which allows carrying out future projections and indicating, via alarms and events, situations with the potential of impacting DC operations even before they take place. Likewise, it’s also possible to detect any anomalies by observing certain patterns of behavior and to open service orders for both preventive and corrective actions.

 

Dashboards and Reports

With Elipse DCIM, it’s possible to create several types of dashboards and reports, which allow not only creating analyses and comparative studies inside the company but also sharing this data externally. You will be able to, among others, gauge the monthly costs of every collocation customer, create comparative studies per period, or even evaluate the efficiency of service orders.

Security

Manage the access to different areas in the data center and keep relevant information under the control of authorized personnel only by using granular permission control, cryptography, and safe protocols such as HTTPS and SNMP V3. The DC can also integrate to CFTV cameras system.

Features and Direct Benefits

• Monitoring the Data Center’s general performance in real time.
• More accurate customer ticketing.
• Greater control over failure scenarios and anticipation of problems.
• Energy costs projection and management.
• IT processes and resources capacity management.
• Different systems brought together into a single platform.
• Identification and control over assets and network and cabling infrastructure.
• Flexibility for obtaining indicators and reports.
• Tools for helping decide on Capex and Opex investments.