Solutions

Data Centre Infrastructure Solutions

Tech Crowd’s Data Center, Site & Power portfolio builds data centers from ground up; from site preparation, insulation panels, electro/mechanical works, life safety & security systems, and in collaboration with the Data Center IT, Networking & Security Department, all the way to networking, computer, storage, and virtualization solutions. We deliver your new infrastructure ready for the installation of your critical business applications and databases, and walk you through to your environmental monitoring and systems management as well as data protection and information management. We can even assist you to certify it according to TIA- 942 Tier Level of your choice. Our Integrated Infrastructure products and services include:

• IT & Telecom Cooling - Precision Cooling, Enclosures & Containment Systems
• Power Management – UPS, Power Distribution, PDU, Data Center Electrical Works
• Standby Emergency Power
• Data Center Cabling – Optical Fiber and High-speed Copper
• Environment Monitoring & Data Center Infrastructure Management
• Site Preparation
• Safety & Protection Systems
• Integrated Surveillance & Access Control
• Special / Custom Applications – Mobile / Containerized Data Centers & Telecom Tower Compounds

Special/Custom Applications

Tech Crowd extends this site preparation, power management and power generation expertise to specific applications including containerized data centers, mobile data centers, telecom shelters and tower compounds.

Mobile / Containerized Data Center

The perfect temporary data center to bridge the duration of alterations, expansion measures or relocation, but no less ideally suitable as a permanent IT or server room. The absolute highlight is the innovative direct free cooling, which bring savings of up to 40% on the usual costs for cooling. At the same time, the container guarantees seamless integration of a UPS, fire alarm/extinguisher system, power distribution, raised floor, access control and monitoring functions.

Integrated Surveillance & Access Control

Our partner of choice in surveillance and access control systems in modern building in general and in the data center in particular is Honeywell. Honeywell carries a complete range of products that are tightly integrated among each other and into third-party systems including directory services, barrier systems, etc. Our solution includes:

• CCTV Cameras – dome, PTZ
• Digital Video Recorder and Storage Systems
• Access Control Servers
• Proximity / Biometric / PIN Readers
• Electronic Door Bolts & Locks

Safety & Protection Systems

Fires are a serious risk to businesses. Cable-rack and equipment fires could significantly impact communications and result in failure to deliver basic services to customers, ultimately slashing revenues., and cause immeasurable negative impact on consumer confidence. Due to the density of computer equipment and data in a computer room, the degree of potential damage that could occur from both a fire and conventional fire-extinguishing systems is unacceptable. Tech Crowd has therefore carefully selected our product range and partners for Safety and Protection Systems, covering simple fire suppression to sophisticated fire prevention systems.

Fire Suppression

Tech Crowd’s fire suppression solutions are designed on a fixed pipe and nozzle arrangement using a pre-engineered concept, providing protection for Class A, B and C type fires. NOVEC 1230 System - designed to extinguish fires involving flammable liquids., gases and electrical equipment. NOVEC 1230 extinguishes fires by a combination of physical and chemical means. It does not significantly deplete the oxygen content in the room and tests have shown it to be less toxic than Halon 1301.

FM200 System

is another Halon 1301 replacement agent with zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) suitable for total flooding. Clean Agent HFC227ea System is an effective total flooding agent suitable for use on Class A surface burning fires, Class B flammable liquids.fires and fires on electrical equipment. On a weight of agent basis FM200 System is a very effective gaseous extinguishing agent. The FM200 System extinguishing concentration for normal heptane (cup burner method) is approximately 5.8% by volume. The minimum design concentration for total flooding applications is 7% in accordance with NFPA 2001.

Fire Prevention – preventing the ignition process

Fire Prevention and Suppression System comes with a fire-preventative norm baric hypoxic environment that provides the ultimate solution for the fire safety problem in computer rooms. The system works efficiently by providing effluent ventilation of the protected facility with hypoxic (oxygen depleted) air produced by special generators just from ambient air. This creates a comfortable human-breathable atmosphere inside a facility, in which nothing can ignite or burn. This environment corresponds in partial pressure of oxygen to the altitude of 9,000’, is completely safe for people.

This environment can be used as an alternative, which enhances the conventional fire-safety means without interfering with their performance, or even providing synergistic fire-safety effect. There is no need to remove an existing sprinkler system from your premises, simply because it will never be activated. Physically preventing the ignition process, the system reduces risk (as well as the fire-extinguishment related damage risk) virtually to zero.

Site Preparation

The Data Center site preparation pertains to civil works that delivers the following:

• Fire-rated partition / insulation system
• Fire-rated door
• Raised flooring and ramp
• False ceiling
• Lighting system

Tech Crowd designs the solution for each customer according to their requirements, complying with industry standards, local regulations and vendor’s best practices. Tech Crowd helps its customers from site selection all the way to post-installation assessment. As the basic elements forming the data center build, we carefully select our partners in this portfolio including compliance with ISO manufacturing processes, safety accreditations and conformance to environmental codes and regulations.

Environment Monitoring & Data Center Infrastructure Management

Tech Crowd’s Data Center portfolio is not complete without environment monitoring and alarm system that is flexible and support complete features of environment monitoring and security management concept for preventive protection and to guard against follow-on costs. At the same time, it offers consolidation point for connecting to facility management. Our sensors and monitors include the following as a minimum:

• Water Leak
• Power
• Temperature
• Humidity
• Fire

Management

Tech Crowd provides Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform for all components in a data center infrastructure, from power supply and power distribution, to cooling, through to the security system. The DCIM provides:

• Energy optimization in the data center
• Simple project management
• Automatic detection of Rittal components
• Increased security and reliability of the data center
• Incorporation of building control system components
• Linking of the physical data center infrastructure into a network management system
• Linking and monitoring of all IT devices via SNMP protocol

Data Center Cabling

Optical Fiber and High-speed Copper Cabling Systems Often overlooked in many data center and SAN projects, the cabling inside the data center is a critical component in the successful delivery, operation and maintenance of the IT systems. In particular scalability, moves, adds and changes (MACs), availability of key product information and the ability to get the product in the shortest possible time is critical. Our partners, Corning Cable Systems are market leaders in this field. Corning pre-terminated optical fiber and highspeed copper (Cat 6A and above) cabling systems designed to dramatically streamline the process of deploying an optical / highspeed copper networking infrastructure in the data center. This innovative, value-added system significantly reduces installation time and cost. Modular, pre-terminated components of the system are simple to configure and can be installed, connected and operational in a fraction of the time when com-pared to using conventional, field-terminated methods. The system’s polaritymaintaining modular components guarantee compatibility, flexibility and excellent system performance for all optical configurations. The universal wired modular components make networking moves, adds and changes simple, fast and easy to complete with minimum disruption to neighboring areas.

Tech Crowd ensures that:

• All cables will be laid on proper cable tray as per TIA-942 standards
• The routing of all copper and fiber cabling will be in a different containment (suspended) in order to avoid any interference with the power cabling.
• Patch panel and cables labeling follows ANSI/ TIA/EIA 606-A Standard
• All cabling will be terminated as per ANSI/TIA/EIA 606-A Standard and the supplier practice with proper and comprehensive labeling scheme
• A certified testing result will be submitted for all installed cabling works

Standby Emergency Power

For any application where mission-critical operations require an uninterrupted supply of power, emergency standby power is a must. High-availability of power translates to success in many industries, whether this power is used to meet uptime requirements of data centers and telecom cell sites, supporting life-saving procedures in health centers or ensuring continuous operations of critical financial transactions. Tech Crowd’s partners for standby power systems provide integrated and sustainable solutions. Our generator systems are powered by Cummins or Perkins, delivering continuous energy to maximize success, minimizes risk, and complies with life and safety codes.

Our portfolio includes:

• Diesel generator sets from 4 kW to 2.7 MW
• Automatic Transfer switches from 20 amps to 3,000 amps
• Sound-attenuated enclosures
• Integrated smart technology digital controls
• Reserve fuel tank and piping systems
• Site preparation and build

Power Management

Tech Crowd’s power management solution includes

• Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS)
• Power Distribution Racks (PDR)
• Power Distribution Units (PDU)

Data Center Electrical Works

Tech Crowd is providing the following solutions for the Data Center electrical cabling and containment systems:

• Electrical Cabling - Data Center Feed
• Generator Set to Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS) Panel
• Main Utility Room to ATS
• Electrical Cabling - Inside Data Centre
• ATS Panel to Sub-Main Distribution Box (SMDB)
• SMDB to non-IT load
• SMDB to UPS
• UPS to Load DB
• Load DB to Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
• All required electrical cable containment e.g. GI frames mounted under the Raised Flooring
• All electrical cables installed on electrical cable containment
• All electrical sockets to be fitted in cable tray with holder
• All sockets installed within Data Center shall be industry standard and IP 65 rated
• All existing power outlets above the Raised Floor will be relocated under it
• Electrical Ground / Earth

IT Cooling, Precision Cooling

Tech Crowd’s portfolio of IT and Telecom Cooling solutions encompass single server rack requirements, small computer rooms and telecom shelters to large enterprise applications spanning one or more data centers.

Our high efficiency data center cooling systems offers more cooling for less power and ensures stable environment and improved availability.

Our technology partners, offer in-rack, in-row, suite-based or traditional room-based cooling using either Chilled Water (CW) or Direct exchange (DX) or a combination of both to deliver the required capacity and availability.

Enclosures & Containment Systems

Tech Crowd’s IT enclosures and containment systems range from single network/server rack for small computer rooms all the way to multiple racks tightly integrated to Precision Cooling solutions used in medium to large data centers.

Our technology partners offer multi-functional rack enclosures designed around customer feedback from around the world. These enclosures are built to meet current IT market trends and applications catering for high density computing and networking as well as broadcast and audio-video. Designed with cooling, power distribution, cable management and environmental monitoring in mind, our rack enclosures provide a reliable rack-mounting environment for mission-critical equipment.