Environmental Monitoring

Fire stopping is an important part of providing structural fire protection and fire safety within a facility. Fire stopping is vital to contain or slow the spread of fires by utilising fire-resistant walls, floor and doors, all of which need to comply with the associated regulations.

Due to the need in Data Centres and Enterprise IT environments to penetrate fire-rated walls and floors to distribute services and connectivity, it is vital that these openings are sealed to reduce the risk of fires or smoke from spreading.

EDP Data Centre Solutions provides a range of fire stopping services that are conducted by Critical Facilities Solutions, part of the EDP Group. These services include: inspecting, reporting and signing off fire stopping, installation of fire-retardant cable transits, linear gap seals, fire batts and collars and pipe wraps.

Floor Grommets are an important step in improving airflow management in raised floor environments within Data Centres and IT environments. Within Data Centres cold air to cool IT equipment should only be supplied via floor grilles in the cold aisle. All other openings in the raised floor should be sealed to prevent air leakage.

EDP Distribution supply the leading solution to resolve this issue − KoldLok Raised Floor Grommets. KoldLok is a range of floor grommets that has been designed to specifically seal cable openings in Data Centre raised floors, featuring either double-layer brushes or brush and membrane they provide an effective seal whilst still allowing easy access for cabling. Sealing openings with KoldLok helps reduce bypass airflow, enables cooling optimisation of cooling units which leads to energy efficiency gains.

EDP Distribution distributes the IANOS fibre management system from HUBER+SUHNER. IANOS is the next generation fibre management system that facilitates fast, flexible and future-proofed fibre connectivity within Data Centres and Enterprise IT environments. IANOS is a high-density fibre management system that accommodates up to 72 LC-D or MTP ports in each 1RU rack space. The design allows mixed data and applications to co-exist in the same space.

IANOS is built around a 1U or 4U chassis into which are inserted modules for different fibre applications. Modules are available for patching LC, SC or MTP cables, transitioning from MTP to LC, Converting MTP connections to different base rates and LC splicing. The flexibility modules provide enables a simply and effective way of meeting the data requirements needed for day one but with a way to upgrade to faster data rates as the network evolves.