Fire prevention and fire protection in the data center
How do I protect my IT infrastructure from fire?
A modern IT infrastructure includes not only a UPS system and an efficient IT air conditioning unit, but also a sophisticated fire protection concept. Imagine a fire breaks out in your server room, data center or a production or warehouse and your valuable data or Products literally go up in smoke? We are the general contractor for your server room and therefore recommend an individual fire protection concept for your company. We will visit your location, production hall, IT room or server room and plan the right fire safety precautions for you. After approval, we at EPS also take over the entire installation of the fire protection system and commissioning. With us, you only have 1 contact person for the entire fire protection project.- Inspection of your premises – we visit the site and the IT or IT to be secured. Grounds
- Needs assessment for the IT fire protection system
- Conception of an optimal early fire detection system for the room
- Preparation of an execution plan with pipelines, suction points, etc.
- Calculation of system parameters for the pipeline network, such as transport time or sensitivity
Which fire protection system is suitable in the data center?
Every company has different requirements and facilities. Therefore, there is no generally valid recommendation for the choice of a fire protection system. However, modern early warning systems with smoke aspiration technology offer the highest level of safety. RAS systems warn of an imminent fire hazard at a very early stage and therefore provide an important gain in time in the event of a fire. In this way, critical infrastructures such as hardware, software in the data center or even products in production halls can be protected at an early stage. If a fire should now occur, you can protect your technical rooms from the further spread of the fire with a NOVEC extinguishing system. The chemical extinguishing gases of a NOVEC extinguishing system extinguish fires on the basis of the absorption of heat. The NOVEC 1230 extinguishing gas draws the thermal energy from the fire, so to speak. This prevents the independent combustion process. However, chemical extinguishing gases such as NOVEC™1230 also release free radicals that intervene in the chain reaction of the combustion process. Due to the fast and very even distribution of extinguishing agent, the NOVEC™1230 extinguishing gas is ideally suited in the server room and for the safe protection of electrical and electronic systems. NOVEC™1230 extinguishing systems are space-saving, very environmentally friendly and guarantee a high level of personal safety. The NOVEC™1230 extinguishing agent extinguishes as a gas without leaving any residue and with homogeneous distribution throughout the entire extinguishing area.VESDA-E VEP Smoke Intake Detector Fire Protection
detects fires quickly and reliably. The RAS detector protects against false alarms with a lifetime duration thanks to VESDA-E VEP smoke detectors as a protective measure for your IT.Early fire detection in the server room with smoke extraction systems
Fire detection system warns you of a fire in the room before it has even started. For example, in: data centers, server rooms, storage rooms, production halls, etc. The VESDA series are early warning systems with smoke aspiration technology (RAS) that increase safety and thus availability. Therefore, take precautions in good time with a fire extinguishing system in your server room or in your technical rooms. A fire can be very expensive and you should not take this risk in the first place.
