Over­view

The highly com­plex tech­nical equip­ment of data cen­ters and other IT areas, as well as the ma­ter­i­als used there, carry a par­tic­u­larly high risk of fire. Due to the high con­cen­tra­tion of en­ergy and the ma­ter­i­als used, e.g. plastics, data cen­ters present an in­creased fire risk. Due to ab­sent or un­pro­fes­sional cool­ing, hot spots can occur in the sys­tem, caus­ing over­heat­ing. Nu­mer­ous act­ive elec­tronic com­pon­ents, com­plex cabling in false floors and trans­ition res­ist­ances in the many cable ter­min­als en­tail a risk of short-cir­cuits, tech­nical de­fect or thermal over­load­ing. This is es­pe­cially true for the com­puter and server areas, in­clud­ing the as­so­ci­ated cli­mate brack­ets in data cen­ters. Even small or me­dium-sized server rooms and closed server cab­in­ets as part of a com­pany's in­fra­struc­ture in any sec­tor of the eco­nomy fea­ture the same fire haz­ards. Flames, smoke, gas emis­sions, heat – fire has many fa­cets. Minimax has the right fire de­tect­ors for the vari­ous areas within data cen­ters. Their sig­nals con­verge in the fire de­tec­tion and ex­tin­guish­ing con­trol panel, which is­sues an alarm to the people at risk and the fire bri­gade. In ad­di­tion, the Minimax panel mon­it­ors the in­stalled fire pro­tec­tion sys­tem for proper func­tion­ing and elec­tric­ally trig­gers the ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems. Areas with spe­cial fire risks or de­ploy­ment con­di­tions re­quire a tailored volume or local pro­tec­tion sys­tem. Oxeo inert gas ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, Oxeo Eco­Prevent fire pre­ven­tion sys­tems, MX 1230 fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, water spray ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, Mini­fog Pro­Con XP high pres­sure water mist ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, hy­drant sys­tems, CPS 1230 cab­inet pro­tec­tion sys­tems and OneU fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems are used in data cen­ters. All alarm and status mes­sages of the fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems in­stalled by Minimax and of other trades can be visu­al­ized on screen sur­faces by the In­veron haz­ard man­age­ment sys­tem. Struc­tural fire pro­tec­tion, as well as tech­nical sys­tems by Minimax Mo­bile Ser­vices, such as fire ex­tin­guish­ers, wall hy­drants and smoke and heat ex­trac­tion sys­tems, com­plete fire pro­tec­tion in data cen­ters.

Protected Area

1

Com­puter/server areas

2

Elec­tric & con­trol rooms

3

Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

4

Trans­formers

5

Server rooms

6

Of­fices

1. 1

   Com­puter/server areas

2. 2

   Elec­tric & con­trol rooms

3. 3

   Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

4. 4

   Trans­formers

5. 5

   Server rooms

6. 6

   Of­fices