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20.11.2009 - Wm Morrisons PLC, Bradford - Sinetica and Mobotix

Morrisons Sinetica Mobotix Thumb Wm Morrisons PLC has over 400 stores across the UK. Their business is mainly food and grocery; the weekly family shop.As with many other large establishments, Morrisons had been tasked with reducing their power consumption

and were keen to upgrade their security levels when entering the data centre environment. The company also needed to minimise the risk of any network downtime.Due to the sheer scale of the project, Morrisons needed to appoint a reliable company with the required levels of knowledge and expertise to ensure the installation was carried out with a minimum amount of fuss and, most importantly, on time.

Express Data, based in Leeds, were able to meet the strict standards set in place by Morrisons.To satisfy Morrisons’ business needs, Express Data recommended the range of Sinetica power and environmental monitoring products, from Unite Technologies.As the need to operate efficiently and cost effectively against infrastructure and power constraints is increasing, these products provided the perfect solution.

The installation included a number of Eagle-i network attached devices, along with a selection of other Sinetica products such as CL-Amps, PowerHawks and Hawk-i’s.

Mobotix IP cameras were chosen as Mobotix is currently the only network camera to date that is capable of storing smooth high-resolution video streams with 960 lines instead of the usual 288, including sound.

Products for the huge project were sourced from Mayflex and were easily integrated and controlled using Morrisons’ existing Aperture Data Centre Management System.

This made the design straight forward for Express Data’s engineers to implement. However, as many of the cabinets in the existing data centre were populated, the engineers did have to work in areas where space and access were limited.

The solution installed now monitors and provides increased management of power supplies within the cabinets and alerts the IT teams immediately if there are any power problems. The implementation of the project has meant that Morrisons can get the most from their power consumption and security with the minimum amount of disruption.

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