The Data Center Humidification Challenge
Like any large space, data centers must account for specific factors and challenges when it comes to maintaining humidity, including changes in temperature, the location of the room, and whether ambient cooling is present. Allowing server room humidity levels to fluctuate too far in either direction comes with distinct risks.
Excess Moisture and Electrical Damage
Ignoring humidity in the data center can result in costly damage to company computers, printers, and other electronic devices. Excessive moisture settles on equipment and can result in component failure and corrosion.
But while excess or fluctuating moisture levels in the air can damage electrical components, the biggest environmental threat to computers actually isn’t high humidity. It’s low humidity.
Inadequate Moisture and ESD Damage:
Environments with a low relative humidity (RH) are more susceptible to ESD. Normally, airborne moisture dissipates static electricity and prevents the buildups that lead to component-frying consequences.
But when the air is dry, static electricity travels more easily, dissipates improperly, and can trigger destructive ESD events.
The Self-Evaporative Solution for Data Center Humidification
Self-evaporative humidifiers keep data centers clean and cool while preventing moisture buildup that can damage equipment. Some of the many benefits of implementing self-evaporative data center humidification systems include the following.
Data Center Humidity Range
While many humidifiers can maintain the recommended range of 30-40% RH, moisture levels alone are not enough to avoid these risks altogether.
Fluctuating moisture levels and high maintenance often make humidifiers more problematic.
Preventing Excess Moisture and Electrical Damage
That’s why self-evaporative humidification technology generates water droplets that repel one another. This simple, patented process leads to a host of humidification advantages: namely, quick and non-fluctuating moisture diffusion and non-wetting humidification.
When self-evaporative droplets repel each other, they cannot form puddles or condensation that could damage data equipment, permeating the air with precise and stable moisture uniformity. Precise and uniform humidity completely eliminates the chance of equipment failure and inefficiencies caused by inadequate humidity levels and diffusion.
Preventing Hazards
Likewise, self-evaporative humidification systems keep data centers clean and cool. The self-evaporative process reverses cohesion and maximizes adhesion, attracting airborne dust to the droplets. Once contaminants adhere, they oxidize.
Keeping the room cool is a feature of all self-evaporative systems. The technology draws in warm, dry air from all the equipment, filters it through the double cooling mechanisms inside the system, and releases cool, clean air.
Empowering Data Centers
Meeting the stringent demands of electrical systems, data centers use self-evaporative technology via Smart Fog’s wall-mount, suspension, or in-duct options.
Self-evaporative humidification empowers data centers with more operational control and efficiency by eradicating ESD, optimizing cooling processes, and ensuring efficient operations.
Why Humidity in Data Centers and Server Rooms Matters
Having the correct humidity levels in your data center is vital, as it can affect the performance and reliability of the equipment and infrastructure. Some other reasons why it is essential to be aware of the humidity levels in a data center or server room include:
- Preventing static electricity risks to create a safer environment for the equipment.
- Improving the efficiency of the cooling systems to reduce energy consumption and operational costs.
- Reducing the risk of corrosion-related failures.
- Maintaining operational stability for more predictable performance.
Benefits of Humidifiers for Server Rooms and Data Centers
Server room humidifiers can help maintain optimal environmental conditions as well as provide a wide range of benefits, including:
- Controlling condensation.
- Creating a stable operating environment.
- Maintaining the integrity of stored data.
- Improving cooling efficiency to reduce energy consumption.
- Complying with industry guidelines.
Smart Fog's Data Center Humidification Systems
Taking control of your data center’s humidity levels is simple with our line of humidification systems. Our systems accommodate various room sizes and can reliably maintain ideal humidity levels. Some of our many data center humidifier solutions available include:
- ES100 Direct Space Humidifier: The ES100 Direct Space Humidifier is an in-room solution that efficiently turns any space into a clean and comfortable environment.
- TS100 In Duct Humidifier: The TS100 In Duct Humidifier uses self-evaporative technology for a non-wetting, reliable humidification solution.
- ES100M Portable Industrial Humidifier: Enjoy all the benefits of the ES100 in a portable system with an ES100M Portable Industrial Humidifier.
- MS100 Custom Grid System: Humidify spaces of up to 10,000 square feet to meet the exact humidification needs of any facility with the MS100 Custom Grid System.
Enhance Your Data Center Productivity With Humidifiers From Smart Fog
Keeping your data center at a safe humidity level is easy with Smart Fog humidifiers. We have over 40 years of industry experience, and our line of humidifiers results from careful research and testing in a range of facilities, including data centers. If you’re ready to learn more about our humidification systems and how they can benefit your data center, we invite you to explore our wide selection of humidification solutions today.