Quicklime

Quicklime data-center infrastructure management (DCIM) software 

for managing and monitoring all your AKCP devices and sensors (including 3rd party sensors), customizing dashboards, graphing, alerts, distributing firmware updates, and remotely configuring devices

Quicklime is best-in-class data-center infrastructure management software (DCIM).

Quicklime is a powerful and versatile centralized monitoring and management platform for complex infrastructures. Designed for mission-critical environments, it provides comprehensive modules with AI powered analytics for data-center infrastructure management (DCIM), video surveillance and sensorCFD.

Monitor all your deployed sensors, intelligent PDUs, backup power systems from a single user interface. 3D data center visualization, rack mapping, capacity planning, asset tracking and more.

With Quicklime you can create customized desktops that drill down from a data center view to an individual rack, or asset in a few clicks. Sensor data feeds into assets for granular insights into each assets power, environmental, security or network status. Integration with third party sensors via popular protocols such as Modus, Bacnet, SNMP and MQTT.

Quicklime can be deployed either on-premise or in a cloud environment, giving you flexibility to match your IT strategy and resilience requirements. For true high availability and fault tolerance the cluster does not need to be within the same facility. The individual servers can be distributed over a wider geographical area. So long as latency is below 5ms there will be no issues with the synchronous replication of data between Kafka and Postgres. Typically this means, with a dedicated fiber line, you could have the facilities up to 300 km apart.

Hardware
AKCP offers a wide range of sensors and probes. Specialty sensors for the data center include cabinet thermal maps, contactless current sensors and power meters. Close integration of AKCP sensors with Quicklime gives a complete end to end monitoring solution for your data center.

Cross Platform Access
Access the Quicklime user interface from any device such as a laptop, smart-phone, Windows or Linux machine. All you need is a web browser (Google Chrome recommended). There are no apps to install or packages to download.

Quicklime Modules
Quicklime consists of modules that get purchased separately based on your data-center infrastructure management needs. Modules include:

• Sensor Monitoring - for managing and monitoring all your AKCP devices and sensors (including 3rd party sensors), customizing dashboards, graphing, alerts, distributing firmware updates, and remotely configuring devices. Pricing is based on sensor data-points count.

• Data-Center Module - for energy optimization, capacity planning, thermal-risk monitoring, power-train mapping, efficient energy-usage analysis, network-cable mapping, asset management and data-center visualization. Pricing is based on rack count.

• sensorCFD™ Module - an AI-driven, real-time data-center temperature and airflow modeling for sensor-constrained CFD (computational fluid dynamics) modeling, with actual values and performance data that accurately simulates your data centers airflow, cooling capacity and efficiency. Pricing is based on rack count.

• Video Module - Video-camera streaming, recording, playback and synchronization with sensor events, utilizing AI prompting to create video analytical sensors that watch for specific events such as employees not wearing protective gear, crossing into unauthorized areas or checking for hazards. Pricing is based on camera count.

• Door Access Control Module - for controlling access to racks (including remote control) via RFID Swing-Handle Cabinet Locks, controlling access to doors (including remote control) via Door Control Units, setting up schedules, and receiving access log reports. Pricing is based on user ID count.

• Fault-Tolerant and Failover - Scaleable, fault tolerant architecture designed for large-scale deployments with thousands of sensors. This configuration ensures uptime, redundancy, and seamless failover, making it the best choice for enterprise and data center operations.

Sensor Monitoring
QUICK-xxx modules - pricing is based on sensor data-points count

Data Center Monitoring and Optimization
Thermal risks in the data center must be monitored so they can be managed. Ensure 100% ASHRAE compliance at rack level, minimize downtime and increase equipment service life.

The second most common cause of unplanned data center downtime is failure to manage the thermal risks posed by overheating servers. Almost 1/3 of data center downtime can be traced to overheating. Due to this, many data centers mitigate the risks by overcooling, which results in wasted energy, increased carbon emissions and OpEx.

With AKCP Thermal Map Sensors and Quicklime heat-maps you can have the best of both worlds, identify hot spots and cold spots for optimal efficiency and lower PUE.

Real-Time Heat-Maps
2D heat-maps constantly update with sensor data at rack level. With each rack having 6 temperature sensors (3 at front and rear, top middle and bottom) hotspots, high rack inlet temperatures and incorrect ∆T's are quickly identified and alerted.

Monitoring
Quicklime supports monitoring of your data center environmental, power and security conditions. It offers SNMP V1/2/3 and Modbus TCP/IP support. with Quicklime you can view all your deployed AKCP and third party sensors in one software.

Fully SNMP compliant, Quicklime monitors third party devices virtual sensors. with Quicklime you can integrate intelligent PDU's and UPS systems, monitor server loads and system uptime and, calculate live PUE.

Quicklime monitors for all your AKCP sensors. Manage sensor thresholds, alerts and reports. Customizable desktops to display sensor data with gauges and graphs. Close integration to AKCP thermal-map sensors displays rack inlet, outlet and △T values for each of your racks. Identify hotspots and cold spots in your data center.

Identify Hotspots Before they are a Problem
With Quicklime heat-maps hotspots are identified. Visual and audible alarms can be raised, SNMP traps, E-mail and SMS can be sent. With full SNMP V1/2/3 compatibility it easily integrates with existing NMS, BMS and DCIM software.

24/7/365 Thermal Optimization
Be proactive with thermal management of your data center. Sense disaster and be put in control before critical infrastructure fails. As data center loads change identify areas of cost saving. Utilize sensors as an analysis tool not only for alerts.

Comply with ASHRAE and Uptime Institute
With sensors placed at each rack you can ensure 100% compliance with ASHRAE and Uptime Institutes recommended temperatures and sensor placement. Sensors reduce the risk of thermal shutdowns, which account for 1/3 of data center outages.

Thermal Risk Monitoring
Quicklime sensor-monitoring helps protect IT equipment from high temperatures, monitors for hotspots in your racks and alerts with sensor values. Quicklime sensor-monitoring helps meeting ASHRAE recommendations for data center operating temperatures.

Efficient Energy Usage
Efficient use of cooling, check for cold spots in your data center. Areas that are over-cooled or under utilized. Improve your energy efficiency, reduce operational costs.

Real-time Insights
Quicklime DCIM provides real-time insights to data center performance metrics such as PUE. 2D and 3D heat-maps, ∆T and ∆P, humidity, security power and assets.

Data-Center Module
QUICK-DCIM - pricing is based on rack count

Quicklime DCIM provides real-time insights to data center performance metrics such as PUE. 2D and 3D heat-maps, ∆T and ∆P, humidity, security, power and assets.

Data Center Energy Optimization
Data center optimization focuses on improving the efficiency, performance, and sustainability of data-center facilities. Typical strategies involve optimizing airflow through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, which simulates air movement, temperature distribution, and heat transfer within the data center to identify hotspots, inefficiencies, and optimal layouts for racks and vents.

Capacity Planning
Plan where you can increase data center capacity. Find racks with available space, check for sufficient power and identify stranded capacity that is wasting energy.

With Quicklime asset tracking and management feature you can find capacity in your data center. View available rack space, with power meters check for sufficient power overhead. With the addition of temperature monitoring and cabinet rack maps, find where you have colds pots and capacity can be increased without the need for additional cooling.

Asset Management
At the heart of the DCIM are all of the appliances and equipment that make up your infrastructure. Map out your data center and locate the assets. Connect the assets with sensors to monitor the environmental, power or security parameters of those assets.

Thermal Risk Monitoring
Quicklime DCIM helps meeting ASHRAE recommendations for data center operating temperatures. It helps protect IT equipment from high temperatures, monitors for hotspots in your racks with cabinet rack maps, and alerts with sensor values and detailed insights for thermal risks. 

Efficient Energy Usage
Efficient use of cooling, check for cold spots in your data center. Areas that are over-cooled or under utilized. Improve your energy efficiency, reduce operational costs.

AKCP sensorCFD performs a CFD analysis of your data center, utilizing live sensor data as the input. This sensor constrained model more accurately simulates your data centers airflow, cooling capacity and efficiency.

Through the analysis of multiple sensors per rack a model of your data centers thermal capacity is generated. Identification of stranded capacity, over cooled and under utilized cooling units enables proven energy savings.

Power Train Mapping
Monitor your facilities power, PUE, loads and power utilization. Balance loads and plan Data Center expansion. Power data comes from AKCP power meters, third party power meters or intelligent PDUs.

Network Cable Mapping
Connect assets to their relevant network switches and ports. Generate cable schedules with source and termination points, lengths and labels. Manage cable pathways and determine run lengths.

Data Center Visualization
2D and 3D data center visualization. Draw your data center in 3D, add assets to racks and connect assets with sensor data. Drill down from a world view to individual sites, down to rack level. Quickly identify problem areas from an overview map of your data center.

Quicklime software includes built-in drawing tools to quickly layout your data center floor-plan, complete with containment, raised flooring, racks and CRAHs. With a click of a button convert the floor-plan to 3D and visualize your data center, individual racks colored by status. Drill down to an individual rack, view installed assets, and display AKCP thermal map sensors. Implementing sensorCFD™ displays visual representation of airflow in your data center.

sensorCFD™ Module
QUICK-CFD - pricing is based on rack count

AKCP sensorCFD™ is an AI-driven, real-time data center airflow modeling software that combines traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with live sensor data to optimize cooling, identify hotspots, and enhance energy efficiency. It offers a Digital Twin of your facility, allowing for continuous, accurate monitoring, unlike traditional static CFD models.

sensorCFD is an add-on tool for Quicklime. Use it as traditional CFD modelling of your data center with predictions of performance and airflow. Add in AKCP sensors and you have sensor constrained CFD modeling with actual values and performance data.

CFD models are used in the design phase to test various configurations such as adjusting aisle containment, fan speeds, or placement of perforated floor tiles. Quicklime incorporates CFD tools that can be used at the design stage, but more importantly, during operation. sensorCFD is a sensor backed CFD analysis for accurate, near real-time optimization.

sensorCFD is an iterative process, where sensor data feeds into the CFD model, the results are then analyzed using advanced AI tools, which produces recommendations for improvements. These are then implemented and validated through further simulations. Up to 10% energy reductions can be achieved through this process.

AKCP sensorCFD performs a CFD analysis of your data center utilizing live sensor data as the input. This sensor constrained model more accurately simulates your data centers airflow, cooling capacity and efficiency.

sensorCFD creates the CFD analysis based on live sensor data. Connecting the sensor data and asset mapping of Quicklime it generates a CFD analysis of your facility. The results are fed into an AI analytical tool that produces a report with suggested problem areas and improvements. An Energy report is also produced that calculates estimated energy savings and a coefficient of performance (COP) of your data center.

It is here where the true value of Quicklime can be found, where energy is saved and the software becomes more than simply a monitoring and management tool, but an asset that provides a return on investment.

Efficient Energy Usage
Efficient use of cooling, check for cold spots in your data center. Areas that are over-cooled or under utilized. Improve your energy efficiency, reduce operational costs.

AKCP sensorCFD performs a CFD analysis of your data center, utilizing live sensor data as the input. This sensor constrained model more accurately simulates your data centers airflow, cooling capacity and efficiency.

Through the analysis of multiple sensors per rack a model of your data centers thermal capacity is generated. Identification of stranded capacity, over cooled and under utilized cooling units enables proven energy savings.

The ultimate Thermal Risk Monitoring
Quicklime sensorCFD AI helps meeting ASHRAE recommendations for data center operating temperatures. It helps protect IT equipment from high temperatures, monitors for hotspots in your racks with cabinet rack maps, and alerts with AI-assisted computational fluid dynamics based on sensor values, providing detailed insights and thermal risk analysis. 

Video Analytics
QUICK-VID - pricing is based on camera count

Video feeds in Quicklime can be handled like any other sensor with notifications based on sensor events.

Utilize AI prompting to create video analytical sensors that watch for specific events such as employees not wearing protective gear, crossing into unauthorized areas or checking
for hazards.

Use AI Prompting to review recorded video for specific events and synchronize events with sensor data.

Fault-Tolerant and Failover
Kubernetes Linux Cluster - QUICK-HA

AKCP's scaleable, fault tolerant architecture is designed for large-scale deployments with thousands of sensors. This configuration ensures uptime, redundancy, and seamless failover, making it the best choice for enterprise and data center operations. Built on Kubernetes, it supports high availability and scalability, allowing you to expand the cluster as your monitoring needs grow. Services automatically balance and scale across nodes, ensuring reliability, fault tolerance, and performance under heavy sensor loads.

Door-Access Control
QUICK-DOOR - pricing is based on personnel ID count

Quicklime door-access control module monitors your data-center's security. Integrated with AKCP's Access Control System and RFID Swing Handle Locks it controls access to doors and rack-doors (including remote control), set schedules, and receives access-log reports for controlling and monitoring access to facilities, racks and infrastructure.

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