1.1Premises and assetsUPS · rack

Technical rooms and power

When the power fails or the room overheats, the network, the servers and the cameras all stop at once. We prepare the technical space to prevent those stoppages: protected power, tidy racks and a controlled temperature.

Signs you need this

  • Every time the power cuts out, the internet and the system stay down long after the lights come back on.
  • The network cabinet is a tangle of cables that nobody wants to touch.
  • The servers share a hot storeroom with boxes and office supplies.

Many faults that look like software problems start here. Without a UPS, the device that distributes the network restarts at every power fluctuation and the computers lose their connection for a few minutes; a server in a hot room slows down and eventually shuts itself down; a loose cable in the rack leaves a whole floor without a network. The symptoms appear in the layers above, but the cause lies in the technical space.

We begin with a survey of what is already there: the electrical load of the equipment, the ventilation, the condition of the racks and the routes the cables take. From that we propose, in writing, the UPS capacity, the rack layout and the cooling required. On site, we coordinate power, cabling and physical organisation within the same project and label every device and every connection.

At the end, the room is documented: what is installed, where it is connected and what protects it. Whoever walks in later, from your staff or ours, finds a space that makes sense at a glance and has room to grow without rebuilding from scratch.

How we deliver

  1. Survey

    We visit the site, measure the electrical load and record the state of the room, the racks and the ventilation.

  2. Written proposal

    We set out the UPS units, the rack layout and the cooling, stating what is included and what is left out.

  3. Installation

    We assemble and tidy the racks, install the UPS units and reconnect the equipment, interrupting work as little as possible.

  4. Testing before handover

    We confirm that every critical device is connected to protected power and that the UPS units respond to a power failure.

  5. Handover

    We hand over the room documentation and show your staff what to do when a UPS raises an alarm.

What you keep

  1. A floor plan of the room showing every rack and device
  2. A diagram of the power connections and the equipment each UPS protects
  3. Labels on every device and every rack connection
  4. A report of the tests carried out before handover
  5. Written instructions on what to do when a UPS raises an alarm
Layer above2Network and communications