Insights

Notes from the field.

Practical guidance on keeping critical power, cooling, and monitoring systems running — from the engineers who work on them every day.

A green highway sign reading "Disruption Ahead" against a blue sky

Differences UPS or Inverter

There are multiple reasons for power outages.

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Rows of cherry tomatoes ripening on the vine in a greenhouse

HVAC and Indoor Farming

Tomatoes growing via indoor agriculture.

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Consumer Demand Is Driving the Data Center Model

The desire to reduce in-house IT responsibilities led to the introduction and rapid proliferation of colocation and cloud services.

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Stop Virus and Germ Spread

As of today, we are in the early isolation stages of the CoVid-19 in the United States.

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AtmosAir diagram in five steps: polluted air enters, ionisation takes place, bi-polar ionisation occurs, the ions react with particulates, VOCs, bacteria and viruses, and the air is cleaned within the space

AtmosAir Covid-19

Bi-Polar Ionization technology helps combat coronavirus

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A row of white containerised equipment modules on concrete plinths outdoors, a steel stair leading to a personnel door at one end

PFM Data Centers

The speed of disruption and the current data surge cycle continues to demand transformation in the data center industry.

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Three views of service vehicle fit-outs: a van interior racked with tool cases, a van rear with drawer units and coiled cable, and an old photograph of a pickup with an open service body

HVAC Service Vehicle

Contractors can save plenty of money when buying a used HVAC service vehicle, even though prices are much higher today than they have been historically.

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Diagram of a hybrid cloud: a central cloud joined by dashed lines to a padlocked private cloud and a globe-marked public cloud, over a world map

What Is a Hybrid Cloud Strategy?

What is a hybrid cloud strategy and why should my business have one? Learn how you can harness the power of hybrid on our blog.

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Flow diagram of harmonic currents from nonlinear loads branching two ways — current distortion causing transformer losses and heating, reduced transformer life and circuit losses; voltage distortion causing losses at all loads, equipment failures in motors and medical equipment, and reduced manufacturing productivity

Bad Power Costs Money

We haven't seen the last of sags, surges, spikes, brown outs, and power outages.

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Close-up of a rusted heat exchanger tube bundle, concentric U-bends around a bolt at the centre

Heat Exchanger Metals

Corrosion, pitting and rust all weaken the integrity and shorten the life of heat exchangers in HVAC equipment.

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2020 Data Center Trends

Hybrid Architecture is going mainsteam -one of the main trends for data centers in 2020.

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Outdoor Air and HAI

Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) come from many sources

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