The company represented in the UK by Otley, Yorkshire based Openxtra  Sigourney says that for many years, data centre managers have focused on establishing disaster recovery plans to return a business to normal operation as soon as possible after a catastrophe.

“However, little has been accomplished to establish proactive disaster prevention plans that can prevent the catastrophe from occurring at all,” he says. “In many cases, tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment can be damaged and then need to be replaced and reconfigured as part of the disaster recovery ‘plan.’”

“If you proactively monitor environments that house expensive equipment and you are able to take automatic corrective action when an issue occurs, you can potentially save your organisation tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business [and] equipment repair or replacement,” Sigourney comments.

“It’s for this reason that Avtechis committed to working with organisations around the world to implement a proactive disaster prevention approach using Room Alert, TemPageR, and our other products.”

The Room Alert 26W, for example: AVTECH’s most advanced hardware solution monitors the environment, alerts you when issues arise, and offers automatic corrective action and wireless sensor monitoring.

The device can monitor up to 86 total sensors and can also send alert notifications via email, email-to-SMS, and SNMP to PCs, mobile phones, iPhones, BlackBerrys, and PDAs. Other Room Alert models offer the same protection; the main difference is the number of sensors that each one hosts.

Designed specifically to assist with monitoring computer room temperature in multiple locations the TemPageR 3E package allows users to log temperature sensor status for immediate alert notification, historical review and graphing.

Alert notifications via email, email-to-SMS, SNMP and more communicate to devices like computers, mobile phones, iPhones, BlackBerrys, pagers and PDAs. TemPageR 3E offers an easy to use web browser interface for settings changes and viewing real-time sensor status from anywhere.