Data centers are critical to today's economy, powering everything from financial transactions to cloud services. The always-on operations of these data centers depend heavily on Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems to ensure continuous power delivery. However, managing UPS batteries presents various complex challenges, such as battery failures resulting from overcharging or undercharging.

Data center disruptions and outages resulting from poor UPS battery management remain one of the most pressing challenges for data center operations that are required to constantly serve customers across multiple regions.

Data center disruptions and outages resulting from poor UPS battery management remain one of the most pressing challenges for data center operations that are required to constantly serve customers across multiple regions.

Meet Paul, VP of Operations, at a major data center in New York, for whom data center power outages resulting in disruptions and overheads were an everyday nightmare.

One of the critical goals Paul had was to keep was the data center running smoothly, with no interruptions. His team's primary responsibility was maintaining the performance of the UPS systems the lifeline during power failures. But managing battery health and resolving such disruptions reactively and manually was a never-ending battle.

Even with rigorous quarterly UPS battery Preventive Measures (PMs), the frequent outage incidents plagued Paul's team. Every other month, his team faced customer complaints for constant disruptions due to power outages. Paul's team found it impossible to predict and prevent failures. Each incident increased the stress, adding to Paul's already high-pressure role.

The ongoing UPS failures, fueled by battery issues, created a work environment of unrelenting tension. Midnight alerts, emergency escalations, and frustrated customer calls became the norm. No matter how much effort Paul and his team put in, there was never a guarantee that another failure wasn't just around the corner.

The fear of a catastrophic incident loomed over him, making it clear that his team's struggle to prevent major disasters was an unrelenting, exhausting cycle.

The fear of a catastrophic incident loomed over him, making it clear that his team's struggle to prevent major disasters was an unrelenting, exhausting cycle.

Paul's breaking point came after a critical battery failure triggering a massive outage, just one week after a routine quarterly PM. His team had missed a malfunction in the charging circuitry during their inspection, which caused the batteries to be exposed to dangerously high voltage. This led to water loss in the batteries, accelerating their degradation, making the situation worse.

What started as an ordinary business day quickly spiraled into chaos!

Multiple batteries failed simultaneously, plunging the data center into darkness. The power disruption lasted for several hours, bringing client operations to a halt and causing millions in financial losses.

Multiple batteries failed simultaneously, plunging the data center into darkness. The power disruption lasted for several hours, bringing client operations to a halt and causing millions in financial losses.

Contracts were terminated, clients walked away, and within days, the data center's reputation was irreparably damaged, making media headlines.

For Paul, this was a catastrophe.

Paul's bosses demanded answers and were relentless, grilling him over why these failures kept happening. How could such a failure occur right after an inspection?

The outage had exposed the glaring weaknesses of the passive UPS battery maintenance approach that Paul's team relied on. It became painfully clear that the outdated passive methods were not only ineffective but critically harmful to both the team's credibility and the company's business.

The situation left Paul and his team scramblCentering, looking bad in front of clients and upper management alike. Paul's management asked him to immediately stop the current ineffective methods and search for a proactive method that monitors the batteries' health in real-time to avoid these costly catastrophes. Paul found Keyitec and convinced the management to go for it.

Paul discovered Keyitec: a comprehensive, active battery monitoring and management system. It could have prevented the entire crisis, avoiding customer churn, financial losses, and the overwhelming stress placed on Paul and his team.

Paul discovered Keyitec: a comprehensive, active battery monitoring and management system. It could have prevented the entire crisis, avoiding customer churn, financial losses, and the overwhelming stress placed on Paul and his team.

The right system would have ensured real-time insights, minimized disruptions, and protected the center's reputation, offering peace of mind instead of sleepless nights.

A battery management system (BMS) is a crucial technology designed to monitor, manage, and optimize the performance and health of batteries in UPS proactively.

Advanced battery management systems provide real-time monitoring of battery voltage, battery, temperature and battery impedance. It also provides active voltage control of each battery preventing overcharging (dry-out) and undercharging (sulfation) that are responsible for most battery failures that eventually trigger service disruptions.

Additionally, it can save millions of dollars spent on replacing systematically all batteries every four to five years (instead of replacing only the defective ones) and excessive overheads resulting from frequent alerts, quarterly PMs, escalations, and firefights.

Additionally, it can save millions of dollars spent on replacing batteries every four to five years and excessive overheads resulting from frequent alerts, quarterly PM's, escalations, and firefights.

Effective monitoring of battery temperatures and voltage levels could prevent safety hazards, such as fires caused by overheating or undetected leaks.

Keyitec - a leader in battery management solutions, offers the exact features that data centers and their teams need to avoid outages and disruptions, such as:

• Real-Time Active Monitoring: Unlike passive battery management solutions, Keyitec's solution continuously controls each battery voltage (no more overcharging or undercharging), tracks battery health, providing instant 24/7 alarm notifications for any issues related to temperature, voltage, impedance and discharging events.
• Preventative Maintenance: The system automatically manages battery performance, including temperature regulation and voltage balancing, to extend battery life (8 to 10 years life expectancy for 10-year rated VRLA's) and prevent failures.
• Comprehensive Coverage: With unified remote monitoring and control across multiple data center sites, Keyitec ensures seamless operation and timely intervention.
• Managed Services: Keyitec's proactive approach includes alarm notification and escalation, monthly reports and recommendations, handling battery replacements and routine maintenance with continuous monitoring, eliminating the overhead of quarterly PMs, and reducing operational complexity.

Paul's experience underscores the urgent need for an advanced and effective battery management system in data centers.

From frequent outages to skyrocketing costs and critical safety risks, Paul and his team were constantly firefighting the outage issues that drained their resources and piled on stress.

Keyitec's integrated battery management solution addresses these pain points head-on.

By adopting Keyitec's solution, data centers can transform their approach, just as Paul wished he could. No more sleepless nights or panic over potential outages just seamless efficiency, improved uptime, reduced battery replacement costs, and safeguarding data centers ,thereby providing peace of mind for operations teams and clients alike.

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