Nowadays, data centres and telecommunication infrastructures show increasingly influence in many leading-edge industries, providing mission-critical services for their clients ranging from industry, business, and healthcare to banks and government bodies. 

 

Ensuring the service continuity of the data centre has always been a major challenge. There are many potential factors for interruption of the regular operation, such as power outages, malware attacks, and false alarms. As a low probability but high consequence event, a fire event could cause severe damage and unavoidable downtime to the critical equipment and therefore must be set to the highest priority for warning.

 

A major cause of the fire in the data centre and IT infrastructures is the electronic failure by either electronic ageing or improper operation. Throughout the entire fire process, there are a significant number of particles released in the pyrolysis stage of fire by thermal decomposition of exclosure of electronics equipment. The thermal decomposition of the materials, such as ABS, PVC and Tinned copper, generates these particles ranging from 30nm to 100nm in diameter at approximately 80 to 150 degrees. It is critically essential for very early fire alarm systems to successfully identify the material pyrolysis process to ensure an early and accurate warning of the fire threat.

 

Relying on revolutionary technology, PNED C-Pro and C-Ultra ASD achieve superior performance for detecting pyrolysed smoke particles by applying particle charging technology. The detector can quickly identify the pyrolysed particles via the number of charges they have carried. In this way, PNED C-Pro and C-Ultra reveal the earliest sign of fire threat that can potentially create catastrophic damage and loss. 

 

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