Commercial
Buildings
Commercial buildings accommodate banks, offices, retail environments, hospitality services, medical clinics, and more. Depending on the nature of the businesses operating out of these buildings, they may have unique infrastructural needs and valuable assets to protect. For efficient and continuous operations, commercial buildings must prioritize security, stability, and resilience, all of which require comprehensive visibility across infrastructure.
Monitoring
Considerations
UPS Systems & Generators
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and generators operate on battery units to ensure that vital systems in commercial buildings can continue to run when primary power sources are disrupted. By providing the necessary power to store and retrieve information, these systems help protect data integrity and must be well-maintained and ready to deploy at any time.
Server Rooms
Server rooms in commercial buildings house computer systems and IT infrastructure. They often store important data and valuable equipment, and to run optimally, server room environments need to be carefully controlled for factors like temperature, humidity, and leaks.
CRAC & CRAH Units
Computer equipment produces large amounts of heat as it runs, and Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) and Computer Room Air Handler (CRAH) units help regulate temperature to prevent outages due to overheating. CRAC units utilize refrigerant chemicals while CRAH units contain chilled water.
HVAC & Plumbing
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) controls temperature in commercial buildings, and plumbing serves kitchens and bathrooms used by personnel. HVAC and plumbing infrastructure contains a large amount of water, and even in stable environments, this infrastructure can collapse, causing large spills or flooding around sensitive equipment.
Airflow
In server rooms and other technologically dense areas, it’s important to control airflow circulation and turbulent disbursement to prevent the formation of hotspots. Flooring, doors, walls, and ceilings should be optimized to promote adequate airflow.
Building Security
Many commercial buildings house sensitive data, valuable merchandise, and cash, and they need to be secured at all times. Some areas may also require comprehensive monitoring of visitors and personnel.
Leak Detection
Cooling units, HVAC infrastructure, and plumbing are ubiquitous in commercial buildings, and they put large amounts of conductive fluids in proximity to sensitive electrical equipment.
Sudden collapses can cause immediate flooding, and even a small leak can escalate quickly to affect multiple areas. By catching leaks early, businesses can protect assets and minimize downtime.
Parameter helps businesses safeguard operations and save costs with innovative leak detection solutions. Our technology detects leaks of all sizes as soon as they occur, ensuring personnel have enough time to contain and neutralize leaks before they spread.
Capabilities of Parameter RLE Leak Detection include:
- Accuracy of ±2 feet / ±0.5% of cable length with map-applied distance read
- Extensive detection along 10,000 feet of detection cable
- Wireless range up to 1600 feet
- Long-lasting, resettable, and reusable detection cables
- Real-time alerts
Environmental Monitoring
In commercial buildings, adequate environmental management is an essential part of maintaining server equipment and enhancing security.
When atmospheric conditions fall outside of expected parameters, efficiency is compromised and valuable assets can incur damage. Because atmospheric changes can happen suddenly and can’t be detected with the naked eye, commercial buildings need effective and accurate environmental monitoring systems.
Parameter empowers businesses operating out of commercial buildings with comprehensive visibility into critical aspects of infrastructure. Parameter’s environmental monitoring technology tracks multiple conditions, including temperature, humidity, airflow, CO2, smoke, motion, door status, and more. When a failure is detected, the system sends an immediate alert indicating the nature and location of the issue.
Capabilities of Parameter RLE Environmental Monitoring include:
- Reliable and accurate threat detection
- Remote monitoring functionality
- Seamless integration with native BMS
- Enhanced data-driven decision-making
- Wireless, Wi-Fi, and wired technology options
Battery Monitoring
Without a way to track battery performance in real time, businesses operating out of commercial buildings can’t trust their UPS infrastructure to be available at all times.
Even a single failed unit in the critical path can compromise an entire battery string, and failures can occur unexpectedly, including between manual checks.
Businesses can ensure UPS integrity by implementing a comprehensive battery monitoring system that is semi-permanently connected to provide live insights into battery performance.
Parameter’s Cellwatch Battery Monitoring platform measures multiple conditions, alerts to failures, and delivers live data on critical units.
Capabilities of Cellwatch Battery Monitoring include:
- Tracking critical units in real time
- Enhancing UPS reliability and reducing risk of unexpected outages
- Identifying failing cells quickly for efficient repairs and replacements
- Seamlessly managing battery health data from multiple strings and units
- Streamlining maintenance to achieve cost savings, defer replacements, and maximize useful battery life
Parameter delivers tailored solutions for UPS applications in commercial buildings with modular designs that integrate seamlessly into native BMS structures.
Airflow & Flooring
In commercial buildings, server rooms are especially vulnerable to the effects of poor air circulation. Server racks require a steady flow of cool air, and air pressure that is too high or too low can cause warm spots to form and negatively impact efficiency.
With specially designed raised floor panels, facilities can enhance airflow where it really matters.
Parameter delivers advanced air flow circulation and turbulent disbursement solutions for commercial buildings via Triad Flooring’s comprehensive suite of floor panels, blanking devices, and tailored containment products. With patented features like stratification fins and dual integrated handles, Triad Flooring products optimize airflow to create a stable and efficient environment.
Capabilities of Triad Flooring include:
- Improving airflow through patented features
- Optimizing turbulent disbursement for increased efficiency
- Preventing hot and cold air from mixing
- Customizable airflow containment solutions
- 50% less airflow loss than leading competitors
Product Lines
Ideal for commercial building applications, Parameter RLE Leak Detection technology alerts to everything from small spills to major flooding as soon as liquid is detected, providing personnel with plenty of time to resolve the issue before it spreads. Parameter offers leak detection solutions for both chemical and conductive fluid leaks.
Liquid Sensing Cables
Parameter’s conductive fluid sensing cables can be run around the perimeter of a room or in a serpentine pattern under the floor for comprehensive coverage of server rooms and other workspaces. For liquid cooling chemical applications, Parameter’s chemical sensing cables are exceptionally reliable, resistant to corrosion, and offer an especially fast reaction time.
Spot Detectors & Controllers
For readily visible areas such as HVAC drips pans, floor drains, and condensation outlets, Parameter’s simple and cost-effective zone controllers and spot detectors notify personnel as soon as a leak is detected in a specific area. For more complex spaces, distance-read controllers can identify the precise location of a leak or spill.
Parameter’s RLE Environmental Monitoring product line is designed to help commercial facilities maintain controlled environments in server rooms and other sensitive workspaces by tracking critical factors and alerting to failures. With wired, wireless, and Wi-Fi platforms available, our systems ensure streamlined integration through user-friendly interfaces.
WiNG Monitoring
Parameter’s hyper-convenient and reliable WiNG wireless platform is as simple to install as placing a magnet on a doorframe. The platform features sensors for dozens of environmental conditions and automatically relays continuous data to the WiNG Manager, allowing business to meet efficiency goals, maintain equipment performance and optimize operations by fine-tuning server environments. There are no recurring fees, and once you’ve purchased the equipment, it’s yours for life.
Wi-Fi Sensors
Parameter’s Wi-Fi sensors enable businesses to leverage existing Wi-Fi networks to consistently and accurately monitor conditions such as temperature, humidity, CO2, airflow, and leaks.
Wired Facility Monitoring & Sensors
For operations that require the utmost security, Parameter simplifies closed-circuit monitoring through the wired Facility Monitoring System (FMS), which monitors sensitive facilities, temperature, and equipment status. To expand FMS functionality, Parameter offers wired sensors for temperature, humidity, motion, door status, smoke, power failures, and power currents.
As the core Cellwatch product, Cellwatch Battery Monitoring serves as a comprehensive preemptive battery maintenance solution for UPS applications in commercial buildings. Cellwatch Battery Monitoring utilizes advanced measurement techniques to continuously monitor entire systems and provides extremely accurate readings throughout charge, discharge, and float periods.
Real-Time Visibility
Cellwatch Battery Monitoring is semi-permanently connected to deliver continuous passive monitoring without the need for manual checks, allowing personnel to repair or replace units before they need to be deployed.
Comprehensive Data Collection
In addition to functionality for alerting against and preventing thermal runaway, Cellwatch Battery Monitoring tracks string voltage, cell level voltage, ohmic value, and current temperature to identify cell failures within a UPS string.
Through Triad Flooring, Parameter delivers flexible airflow solutions that can be adjusted to integrate with native architecture in commercial facilities, regardless of age or style. Commercial buildings may have a diverse variety of infrastructural needs, so Parameter delivers customized solutions that can be designed and manufactured to meet specifications.
Airflow Floor Panels
With patented features like stratification fins and integrated handles, Triad airflow panels are easy to install, adjust, and reposition for an immediate air circulation solution. Our designs prioritize flexibility, ensuring seamless integration with almost any style of raised floor in commercial buildings.
Grommets
Parameter’s split integral floor grommet accomplish 50% less airflow loss than leading competitors to improve efficiency in raised floor environments. They are available in multiple shapes and sizes to seal holes in raised floors for immediate efficiency returns.
Discover Advanced Commercial Monitoring Solutions From Parameter
Not only can the right monitoring system alert to failures, but it can also enable incident prevention, enhance efficiency, increase cost savings, and deliver peace of mind.
Contact Parameter to discover flexible monitoring solutions for commercial buildings that check all of these boxes.