12 January 2023

EkkoSense Timeline

EkkoSoft Critical introduces AI and machine learning into traditional data centre optimization, with software that provides comprehensive 3D monitoring and visualization, AI-enabled evaluation and analytics, and capacity management support. For data centre operators this combines to deliver lower thermal and power risks, resulting directly in data centre cooling energy cost and carbon reductions that help deliver on their corporate ESG requirements.

This latest update focuses on enabling further integration and improving ease-of-use. Highlights include:

• An updated Editor mode for the Sensor Editor makes it even easier for partners to commission EkkoSense’s low-cost Critical Thing wireless sensors and integrate them with existing Modbus, SNMP, and BACnet-connected devices. Configuration is now simpler, while also ensuring 1-to-1 data integrity across the EkkoSoft Critical software platform
• BACnet integration within the EkkoSoft Critical software platform, enables EkkoSense to strengthen connectivity with the most widely accepted protocol for building systems and control devices
• Extensions to the company’s EkkoAir wireless cooling duty sensor to include Free Air monitoring, including percentage utilization of free air for combined systems. The latest EkkoAir update also introduces monitoring of chilled water supply and return temperatures, enabling any performance issues to be highlighted
• A new Public API allows high-level daily aggregate room metric temperature, humidity, compliance, and power data to be extracted for use in third party DCIM dashboards or asset management platforms such as Assetspire, along with key metadata on cooling unit setpoints and other configuration details to assist in cooling anomaly detection
• Site & Room PUE charts – supporting longer-term analysis and optimization, EkkoSoft Critical now allows historical site and room PUE performance to be tracked at 15-minute and daily intervals for time periods of up to three years

“Very few performance optimization approaches can help data centre teams to address increased workload throughput, risk reduction and improved sustainability at the same time,” explained EkkoSense’s chief product officer, Paul Milburn. "However, with EkkoSoft Critical’s unique, software-driven AI-enabled thermal optimization capabilities that’s exactly what we’re doing. This latest release strengthens our ability not just to remove thermal and power risks for data centre operators, but also helps them to secure quantifiable reductions in their data centre cooling energy usage that unlock immediate carbon savings for corporate ESG programmes.”