Notifier SC1 Data Center Case Study

Project Pro le SC1 Data Center SAFE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FOR SILICON VALLEY LARGEST DATA CENTER to the procurement and programming skill of Intrepid Electronic Systems it doesn any more re resistant in a data center than the re alarm at the SC1 Data Center in Santa California SC1 re alarm system installed by Cupertino Electric Inc offers four levels of redundancy the data center and monitors 2,700 devices in Phase One protecting the 360,000 facility with a number of ultra safe options re alarm system includes both laser based incipient smoke detection as well as address smoke detectors along with a double interlocked pre action sprinkler system The system be monitored from the master control room as well as from control panels found within computer room Fabros Technology Inc NYSE DFT one of the country leading data center owners and developers of wholesale data centers recently opened the SC1 facility which is over 16 acres DuPont Fabros spared no expense to make all of its data center systems SC1 including its re and smoke alarm systems as advanced as possible of the center objectives is to provide extensive monitoring to protect each tenant critical SC1 offers 88,000 square feet of raised oor and 18.2 MW of available critical load It is by its own dedicated substation er com WORLD HEADQUARTERS Clintonville Road cid 129 Northford CT 06472 USA 203 484 7161 cid 129 Fax 203 484 7118 er com was hired by Cupertino Electric to program and test the re alarm system ful ll DFT rigorous re alarm speci cations Electric Inc which helped engineer install the system hired Intrepid who called NOTIFIER a leading re alarm system equip manufacturer to provide the devices and stations for the networked system Intrepid Electronic Systems programmed tested the state of the art re alarm system the DuPont Fabros Data Center SC1 in Clara California they had to think big 360,000 squre foot data center is one of the data centers ever built in Silicon Valley spread over 16 acres of a prime commercial and eleven buildings were demolished so data center could be constructed turned to NOTIFIER to ful ll the re alarm design equipment speci cations testing four level redundant system that issues several of alerts for each individual computer room a full scale alarm is activated The system is to prevent an incident while saving ex computer equipment from water damage evolved its business model for SC1 from a state of the art design that includes high density computer rooms and an ef cient chilled water mechanical plant The is designed and constructed in accordance LEED standards facility currently has ve carriers Layer 42 Silicon Valley Power Fiber Enter and Verizon are available for quick ber and to provide tenants with secure and access to the facility DFT deploys strong operations teams at each facility to run and provide its tenants with the ultimate in center expertise project manager CC Biggs said the net re alarm system is designed for maximum It includes a main control center that monitored by DFT staff 24 hours a day The cen is networked with over 2,700 re alarm system devices that are installed throughout the rooms in Phase One 7 13 Fire Alarm Heat Detectors and Below Floor Detector System Monitoring Center Electronic Systems Gives Fail Safe Fire Protection at San Jose Data Center computer room has 200 smoke detectors Biggs are at the ceiling and 100 are the oor We also have four aspiration smoke in each room These are layered over the smoke detectors and are used as a way to a potentially small incident from growing aspiration smoke detection system runs a laser through the air sampling system looking for says that each room also has its own control a key part of the cross zone double interlock re alarm system control panels allow an independent re by room to a localized incident said Biggs Hopkins Regional VP of Sales and Leasing DuPont Fabros Technology Inc is proud of the superior level of re protection can feel comfortable that their mis critical infrastructure is being supported by a facility design and operations team from The Voice with permission from of Northern California over 60 years NOTIFIER has been a leader in the re alarm industry Today we are the largest of engineered re alarm systems with over 400 distributors worldwide and regional operations on every continent for the exibility and options your business needs Leaders in Life Safety Technology