We use a web based/email capable Sensaphone IMS-4000 system which uses ropes for the water detection. We had a legacy system in place but went through a major upgrade a few years ago to this system for better reporting, history reports and an expandable via networking monitoring ability.
Jim Ennis Director Systems and Operations University of Central Florida 4000 Central Florida Blvd CSB 308 Orlando, FL 32816 E-mail: [email protected] Voice: 407-823-1701 Fax: 407-882-9017 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mathew Snyder Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:44 PM To: Jeremy Charles Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] What do you use for leak/moisture detection? Adult diapers...wait...Sorry. I was answering just on the email subject. -Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Jeremy Charles <[email protected]> wrote: > The leak/moisture detection system that we were using in our data > center wore out its welcome and we had it removed. It had a lot of > false alarms and it didn’t have an Ethernet/IP interface, so we had to > rely on the building automation to read it for us and send us alerts. > Most of the alarms were intermittent, so by the time we got to the > panel it was no longer showing what the building automation had > alerted us to come and look for. > > > > I’d like to know what you’re using to watch for leaks/moisture under > the floor in your data centers and what you like/dislike about it. > > > > In case you’re wondering, here are some quick criteria for our next system: > > > > 1) It could be either a “rope” or “spot” type system. Either type > could be useful in different locations. > > 2) It must either send E-mail alerts or be SNMP readable so that we > can generate our own alerts. The alerts need give a clue as to the > location of the problem. > > 3) Bonus points if Intermapper already has a probe for it (otherwise > we can cook up our own probe). > > 4) Bonus points if it’s also readable by BacNet or ModBus, but that’s > not a requirement. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > === > > Jeremy Charles, [email protected] > > Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division > > > > Phone: 608-271-9000, Fax 608-271-7237 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
