Schneider Electric system
enhances physical security
at the edge
A combination of video
clip capture and badge
rack access control helps
facility and IT managers
protect edge data centres
and maintain compliance.
The NetBotz Rack Monitor 750
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chneider Electric, a leader in
Digital Transformation of energy
management and automation,
has announced the new APC NetBotz
Monitoring and Management System to
bring enhanced monitoring, management
and control to IT environments.
The new NetBotz appliance line-up
features NetBotz Rack Monitor 750 and
the NetBotz Camera Pod 165.
Continuing 20 years of innovation in data
centre and IT environment monitoring, the
NetBotz 750 introduces a powerful new
software platform and simplified sensor
management, as the first line of defence
against IT downtime.
Designed to provide IT professionals with
the visibility and monitoring needed to
contend with physical and environmental
threats to edge data centres, such as high
heat and humidity, water leaks, smoke
and fire, as well as theft and accidental
errors by people with access to the
physical infrastructure.
Ron Catanzaro, Vice President of Rack
Systems and NetBotz, Schneider Electric,
said: “IT equipment has become so
resilient in recent years that people
sometimes forget how much the
environment matters.
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Organisations lose as much as US$100
million a year to downtime according
to Infonetics Research and common
environmental risks like leaks, high heat
and humidity accounted for 11% of all data
centre outages in a calendar year.
• • Combination of badge rack
access control and clip capture
provides a powerful audit trail, helping
organisations maintain compliance
with various data standards bodies;
• • Native support for wireless sensors
speeds installation, eliminating the rigid
cabling infrastructure typically required
of environmental monitoring.
The NetBotz Rack Monitor 750 and
Camera Pod 165 are available now.
The NetBotz 250, which was launched in
October 2016, will continue as the entry-
level environmental monitoring solution. ◊
Building on the best-in-class security and
environmental monitoring of the current
NetBotz product suite, the features of the
next generation product line include:
• • Integrated surveillance, sensing
and badge access control requiring
only a single IP address simplifies
management and speeds installation;
• • New high definition, low-light
cameras provide the enhanced visibility
required to mitigate unique edge data
centre threats;
• • Video clip capture based on alerts
like motion detected or door opened
reduces complexity in managing
surveillance footage;
As an EcoStruxure Ready device, alerts
and sensor data from multiple NetBotz
monitoring units can be managed centrally
in the cloud-based DCIM platform,
EcoStruxure IT.
“With the proliferation of edge networks
today, IT is frequently deployed in
atypical compute locations with high foot
traffic and unpredictable environmental
conditions, so it is critical to introduce
sensing, surveillance and access control.
The next generation of NetBotz is the
solution ready to protect these highly
specialised environments.”
The NetBotz Camera Pod 165
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