Data centre and server room monitoring for temperature, humidity, mains power, underfloor water and UPS or cooling alarms, with dashboard alerts by SMS or email and escalation.
Sensors, a gateway and the alerting platform are fitted as one system without touching the IT estate. The gateway connects over 4G or Wi-Fi, and on 4G nothing joins your network and no firewall rule is needed. Where an old GSM dialler is still in service, the system replaces it directly.
Server rooms, comms rooms and data halls
Room and rack temperature, with alerts on a limit and on a fast rise when cooling fails.
Leak tags beside cooling units and under raised floors, alerting the moment water arrives.
Mains loss and restoration on the room supply, and UPS on battery from its own output.
Alarm outputs from air conditioning, UPS, generator and suppression panels, sent to named people.
The system covers the four ways a room goes down: heat, water, loss of mains, and a fault on the UPS, cooling or suppression that protects it. Further sensors join the same gateway as the room changes.
Overheating is the most common. An air conditioning unit trips or a filter blocks, and the room climbs a degree every few minutes. A temperature tag in the room, and another at the hot side of a rack, reports the climb as it happens and alerts on a limit or on a rate of rise.
Water is the most expensive. A condensate drain backs up or a pipe above the room weeps, and the first sign is often equipment failing. A water leak tag on the floor beside the cooling units, or under a raised floor, reports the moment water bridges its pins.
Power loss is the quietest. The UPS takes the load and the room carries on, while its batteries run down. A power failure tag on the supply to the room reports the loss and the restoration, and a contact tag on the UPS reports when it goes on battery.
The protective systems need watching too. Air conditioning, UPS, generator and gas suppression panels all have alarm outputs, often wired to a local sounder or an old GSM dialler. Each output can be read by a tag and sent as an alert. Suppression and fire panel outputs are supplementary alerts; the panel's own certified signalling stays as it is.
None of this touches the IT network. The tags are battery-powered and transmit over 433 MHz to a ZARC Gateway on site, which has its own 4G link and battery backup. Every tag checks in on a schedule, so a tag that stops reporting raises its own alert.
The dashboard sends alerts by SMS or email, and through an app where required, to named people, with escalation and separate routes in and out of hours. Every event is kept with its time, so the record of what happened, who was told and when it cleared is there for incident reviews and audits.
Temperature and humidity
Tags in the room and at the hot side of racks report temperature and humidity continuously, with alerts on high and low limits and on a rate of rise that points to a cooling failure.
Mains power and UPS
A power tag on the room supply reports loss and restoration; a contact tag on the UPS reports on-battery and fault states, so the team knows how long it has.
Cooling and suppression alarms
Air conditioning faults, gas suppression panel states and generator alarms are read from their volt-free outputs and sent as alerts. Suppression and fire outputs are supplementary to the panel's own signalling.
Water
Leak tags under raised floors, beside cooling units and below pipework alert on water arriving and again when it clears, with the duration recorded.
Off the IT network
The tags transmit over 433 MHz to a ZARC Gateway with its own 4G link and battery backup. Nothing joins the network the room serves.
Records
Every alarm, alert, acknowledgement and clear is kept with its time and exports for incident reviews, insurers and audits, held in the cloud or on your own servers.
Deployment approach
Most sites begin with one room and add the rest once the alerts have proved themselves.
We list what can go wrong in each room and what already raises an alarm, place tags for temperature, humidity, power, water and each equipment output, and set the limits and alert routes. One gateway covers the site, and every tag is tested end to end before handover.
List each room, what it holds, what can fail and what currently raises an alarm.
Room by room
Confirm tag positions, gateway placement and 433 MHz coverage through walls, floors and steel racks.
Coverage
Set temperature and humidity limits, rate-of-rise alerts and the alert and escalation routes for each room.
Limits and routes
Trigger every input, warm a sensor, wet a leak tag and confirm each alert reaches every recipient.
Tested end to end
Add rooms and sites onto the same dashboard; further tags join the gateway already on site.
Room to estate
Tell us about the rooms, the cooling, power and suppression behind them, and who needs the alerts.
Talk to an engineerApplications
Small comms rooms with one air conditioning unit and a UPS, often with no one on site.
Rooms often watched by an old GSM dialler, now moving to a dashboard with SMS and email alerts and a proper record.
An independent layer of temperature, humidity and leak readings alongside the building's own systems.
Rooms on sites with nobody on hand, where a fault has to reach someone off site in real time.
Suppression panel states and room conditions on the same dashboard, as supplementary alerts.
Every room on every site on one dashboard, grouped by site, each with its own limits and alert routes.
Room and equipment alarms from an old dialler, on a dashboard and sent by SMS or email with escalation.
Temperature, humidity and air quality in comms rooms, plant rooms and warehouses.
Discharge, pressure and readiness of suppression systems, sent as alerts.
Reads fire panel and suppression system states and passes each change to the dashboard as it happens.
Differential air pressure monitoring tag
Reports the pressure across filters and fans, or between a room and a corridor.
Real-time alerts, escalation and event records, held in the cloud or on your own servers.
Coverage confirmed through walls, floors and steel racks before anything is fitted.
Critical National Infrastructure
One-way monitoring for distributed, hardened and unmanned estates.
Cabins and cabinets on unmanned sites, with mains loss and restoration reported.
Facilities Management and Property Operators
Plant room and cold store alarms across client sites.
FAQ
Room temperature and humidity, mains power to the room, water under a raised floor or near cooling units, and the alarm outputs of the UPS, air conditioning and any gas suppression system. Those cover the faults that take a room down most often.
Yes, for room and equipment alarms. The tags read the outputs the dialler was wired to, and the dashboard sends the alerts by SMS or email with escalation. A fire or suppression panel output can be added as a supplementary alert; it is not a certified alarm signalling path.
No. The tags report over 433 MHz radio to a ZARC Gateway with its own 4G link, so nothing joins your IT network and no firewall change is needed. It sits alongside a BMS or DCIM rather than inside it.
The tags run on their own batteries and the gateway carries an internal backup battery, so the alert about the outage still goes out. The gateway also raises an alert of its own when it loses mains power.
The people you name for each room: IT, facilities, the on-call engineer or a contractor. Alerts are raised on the dashboard and sent by SMS, email or both, with separate routes in and out of hours and escalation to further contacts.
There are no per-alert, per-user or licence charges. The system is charged monthly per tag and per gateway, and one gateway covers a site.
Tell us about the rooms, what they hold, what currently raises an alarm and who needs to hear about it. We will say what to fit and where.
Direct contact
Location
Venator House, Unit 9, 15-17 St Stephen's Road, Bournemouth
Dorset, BH2 6LA · VAT GB 409644484
Tell us about the rooms, the cooling and power behind them, any existing dialler or alarm outputs, and who needs the alerts.