Large-scale computer room environment power equipment centralized monitoring program

The environmental equipment in the data center equipment room under the large centralized mode includes high and low voltage power supply and distribution systems, uninterruptible power supply (UPS, battery) systems, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and systems such as fire protection, security, access control, and monitoring. These systems must always be The information system provides a normal operating environment. Because, once this link fails, it will result in major accidents with a wide range of impact and long recovery time, and even personal and equipment losses. In order to ensure the reliable operation of the engine room and the environmental power system and thus ensure the safe and reliable operation of the computer system, it is extremely necessary to carry out automatic monitoring and strict management of the engine room environmental power equipment. Therefore, the senior engineer of Henan Shengqing Electric Equipment Co., Ltd. put forward the centralized monitoring and control program of the large-scale equipment room environment power equipment is the most important thing. Next we will discuss it from several aspects.

The importance of centralized control of environmental power systems

Large information equipment rooms face problems such as high operating environment, large equipment, and low staffing. In particular, currently there is a general shortage of professional management personnel for the engine room environment and power equipment in the country, relying only on the operation and maintenance personnel for several times a day or professional technicians every week. Several on-site and inspections cannot meet the requirements. If a fault occurs, it will not be able to find and deal with the equipment in a timely manner, causing serious losses. Only by properly designing and configuring environmental power centralized monitoring systems can rapid, accurate response and targeted maintenance of equipment faults, environmental conditions and safety be achieved, improve maintenance and management quality, reduce system maintenance costs, and ensure system operation is Good working conditions reduce operating costs. The intelligent environmental power centralized monitoring system can provide a good guarantee for the operation and maintenance of equipment. Its role is to monitor and control various environmental power equipment, and notify relevant maintenance personnel in case of equipment failures, abnormalities, etc.

Main technical requirements for centralized control of environmental power systems

The engine room environment power centralized monitoring and management system needs to have multiple capabilities such as real-time monitoring of operating conditions, anticipated failures, rapid troubleshooting, recording and processing of relevant data, and comprehensive management to save on-duty personnel scheduling, thereby improving the reliability of power plant operation and ensuring The communication network is safe and unobtrusive and implements both unattended and unattended functions.

(1) The centralized monitoring system shall meet the monitoring requirements of all current environmental power equipments and have strong capacity for expansion;

(2) Real-time response time must be achieved, and the independence of system performance and system size must be achieved;

(3) It must be able to solve various technical requirements in the construction of power engine room;

(4) It must be able to unify the equipment room areas and various equipment in a single Chinese man-machine interface;

(5) It must be able to integrate all kinds of traditional equipment and intelligent equipment into the monitoring network, as well as monitor and manage the battery pack into a monitoring system;

(6) Ability to expand online and set up updates;

(7) The function of image monitoring can be expanded flexibly;

(8) Ability to perform unattended or underserved;

(9) The monitoring system should have remote monitoring capabilities. Its database and communication protocol should adopt a unified format, which should provide a basic framework for the gradual realization of a multi-level network management structure.

Environmental power equipment centralized monitoring program

At present, a modularized multi-operating system based client/server intelligent room environment monitoring system is commonly used. It is used to manage hundreds of smart devices and systems including UPS, transfer switches, computer room air conditioners, generator sets, access control systems, and battery detection systems. Through the RS485 bus and the TCP/IP network, the subsystems in various local computer rooms are connected to form a smart computer room power and environment centralized monitoring system. In the event of an abnormal alarm on the field device, the system can automatically play the voice alarm information, and the system will automatically dial the set phone number and notify the relevant personnel by voice. The monitoring host is connected to the user's internal LAN through the network card. All the collected data is set by software, and its data can be sent to the Internet. Multi-point remote monitoring can be implemented on the network. Its monitoring topology is shown in Figure 1.

High and low voltage distribution system: Monitors three-phase voltage, current, frequency, power, power factor, and power; main shunt switch status.

Smart Oil Machine: Intelligent equipment, through the agreement to include monitoring.

UPS: Intelligent equipment, which is included in the monitoring through the solution, the amount of data that can be monitored is completely determined by the content of its own protocol.

Switching power supply: Intelligent devices can be included in the monitoring through the solution, including the relevant data on their AC and DC screens.

Battery pack: Monitor the total voltage, charge and discharge current, unit cell voltage, and marker temperature of each battery.

Patch panel: Monitors the overall alarm status of the patch panel.

Fire safety alarm system: smart equipment, through monitoring protocol included.

Arrester: Monitor the status of the arrester.

Access Control: Intelligent Access Control Management.

Power input distribution cabinets: non-intelligent devices. Through the installation of multi-function electric meter and switch interface, all kinds of parameters are fully monitored.

Computer room dedicated air conditioning: intelligent equipment. The monitoring can be incorporated through the agreement. The amount of data that can be monitored is entirely determined by its own protocol content.

Environmental volume: temperature, humidity, smoke, flooding, active infrared monitoring (personnel entry and exit), passive infrared.

Video Surveillance: Real-time Image Monitoring and Digital Video Recording in the Computer Room

Image: including fixed angle camera and pan/tilt control camera

Centralized monitoring system software functions

The centralized monitoring system generally includes: client software Client, running software S and monitoring hardware. The client software is an important part of the centralized monitoring system. The client software is the user monitoring interface. The monitoring results are reflected to the user through the client software. The user controls or sets the monitoring object through the client software.

The environmental power monitoring system shall have functional modules such as data management, security management, configuration management, alarm management, report management and remote management. The operating systems, database management systems, network communication protocols and programming languages ​​used in computer systems must adopt international standards. General system (and easy to integrate into local network management system). The computer network may be a local area network, a wide area network, transmission media may be Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, ISDN, PSTN, etc., and the transmission protocol is TCP/IP, SNMP, and the like. The client software can detect the remote agent running status and automatically restore the connection.

System main hardware composition and configuration

The entire monitoring system should adopt a tandem structure, which consists of the on-site monitoring center, monitoring unit, monitoring module and remote monitoring station (far-end user). The main hardware equipment of the system refers to each major monitoring host of the monitoring center, all interface conversion equipment, and general-purpose collectors. The system should also be properly configured according to other requirements such as printers, multimedia devices, multi-serial cards, MODEM, UPS, sensors, transmitters and other equipment. Data collection is divided into collection of non-intelligent equipment (temperature and humidity, water leakage, infrared alarm) and intelligent equipment (EPS, UPS, air-conditioner for computer room) and monitoring of distribution cabinets. The collection of non-intelligent devices is divided into analog acquisition and switching acquisition. Temperature and humidity are analog quantities, infrared and leakage are switching quantities.

The monitoring unit and the monitoring module are composed of protocol converters, multi-function controllers, various measurement sensors, and corresponding control execution units and intelligent control units of smart devices, each of which has an intelligent data processing and control function. The monitoring unit is composed of a multi-function controller (multi-serial port card) and is installed on the monitoring host to complete transmission of various data collected by the monitoring module to the monitoring center host; a multi-function data controller can connect various measurement sensors for acquisition and data transmission.

The monitoring module is a series of signal acquisition units, measurement sensors, protocol converters and corresponding intelligent controllers for controlling actuators and smart devices. According to the system requirements, the monitoring module can be connected to various input and output acquisition modules or control modules like the monitoring unit, ie analog acquisition module, digital acquisition module, control module, etc., and the sensing signals of various measurement targets can be accessed accordingly. In the acquisition module, the data processing or control operations are quickly collected and executed at a specified time, and then the processing result and alarm information are transmitted to the monitoring station.

Development trend of centralized monitoring and control technology for environmental power equipment

As part of the network system, environmental power equipment is required to be able to monitor on various network platforms. The monitoring system and Internet technology will be closely integrated. Although traditional technologies such as telephone dialing, SNMP, Telnet, etc. have achieved remote and centralized monitoring of some of the environmental power equipment, these technologies often require specific equipment configuration and operating skills. With the popularity of the Internet, a senior engineer of Henan Shengqing Electric Equipment Co., Ltd. asserted that the development trend of centralized monitoring technology for environmental power equipment must be the use of browsers to monitor various environmental power equipment.

Therefore, in addition to providing comprehensive monitoring and protection functions, monitoring software must also support mainstream operating systems, cross-platform operation and plug-and-play functionality; support mainstream databases and application software; integrate with mainstream server management tools; and mainstream network management. system integration.

Through the Internet browser, all the environmental power equipments are monitored and managed from any workstation in the network at the same time and without any expensive network management software (NMS) platform. The new trend of centralized monitoring software development will be a more innovative interface, further improved functionality, and good stability.