Prasa is one of India’s leading data centers, mission-critical infrastructure solutions, and service providers.
For over 29 years, Prasa has been known for delivering innovative turnkey data center solutions that are highly efficient, Scalable, economical, and agile. We do everything from providing consultancy to building, then managing and maintaining, and finally backing it up with resilient products and critical services!
Our in-depth knowledge & vast experience of more than 29 years in building data centers have helped us develop in-house expertise over the data center skill sets With a strong team of numerous CDCP Certified professionals, designing & deploying multiple Data Centers, we at PRASA are not only helping customers build data centers, we can help them build the very foundation of their digital future!
About the Client –
Our Client is the leading stock exchange of India, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the world’s largest derivatives exchange in 2021 by the number of contracts traded based on the statistics maintained by the Futures Industry Association, a derivatives trade body.
Application:– Co-location Services for their Clients
Challenges on Project:-
- The area of the Data Center was initially used for office-sitting employees
- Designing a Rated-4 data center in an already existing office space was the most challenging task.
- Client required a turnkey data center to meet all its storage, processing, managing, and computing needs for the huge amount of data it houses. A data center with certain modular features was required to be built which would not hamper the performance of all the systems within the data center
- The deployed data center would need to be monitored and managed with a system that will ensure the seamless working of the data center and take care of physical access. This meant a complete security system with a service that could handle everything 24*7.
- Prasa developed a data center in Mumbai as per the client’s requirement, the client wanted a quality data center solution to meet the Civil, cooling, electrical, and Security Needs of the Data Center.
- Material movement and Transportation issue in Covid 19 Situation
- The required solutions had to be energy-efficient and cost-effective without compromising the quality of the technology offered.
- The data center functioning and smooth working of equipment had to be managed post-completion of the project
- Design to Commission in 120 Days – The complete project had a stringent completion timeline. We had to ensure that the implementation of the complete NEW setup is done in less than 120 days.
The highlight of the Project:-
Prasa team done complete Civil, Interior, Electrical, UPS Systems (Li-Fe battery ), Precision Air-Conditioning System, Comfort Air-conditioning systems, IBMS System, Air-Purification System work
- Civil and Interior Works
- Total area allocated – ~15483 sq. ft.
- Racks – 156+ Full Racks
- IT Load – 1.2 MW
- Electrical Work – Complete Electrical Work done by PRASA
- BMS system to monitor the UPS and Battery
- HVAC, UPS Systems, Precision Air- Conditioning
- IBMS: System to monitor the following
Building Management System, Public Address System, IP CCTV Control System, Access Control System, Intelligent Fire Detection and Alarm System, Aspiration smoke detection system, Gas based Fire Suppression System, Water Leak Detection System, Rodent Repellent System, VESDA – Very Early Smoke Detection Aspiration, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors
- Air Purification System
- Cooling System
- Total IT Load – ~1.2 MW design IT load
- Standards –TIA 942 Rated-4 Data Center Design
- Safety and Security Systems
Fire Detection System, Fire Suppression System, Access Control System, Surveillance System, Water leak Detection system, Rodent Repellent System, VESDA, Public Addressing system
Prasa Solution –
- The data center is complete with all security systems. The security systems include a water Leak Detection, Rodent Repellant System, Fire Detection System, Fire Suppression System (Novec 1230), CCTV, and Physical Access Control System.
- Prasa has completed all the civil requirements to house a data center including ceiling, floor, paint, PoP, etc.
- The electrical solutions include power backup equipment including all wiring, UPSs, and DG set.
- Prasa has provided a BMS system to ensure the uninterrupted functioning of the data center
- The solutions provided by Prasa also include all types of electrical solutions along with the input-output panel and PAC panel.
Customer Benefits –
- All 156 racks are Powered using floor-mounted PDUs with an inlet isolation transformer
- It also has a Branch Circuit Monitoring System (BCPM) in order to measure each rack / Rack PDU Power Consumption
- The data center is equipped with an Integrated Building Management System to control, manage, and analyze the functioning of the complete infrastructure. This secures the data center premises and ensures complete security and uptime of all systems
- The modern technology along with In-row cooling systems reduces the power usage considerably, therefore reducing the electricity bill and making the company energy efficient.
- Cold Aisle containment technology makes the data center facility safer and easier to manage for the data center staff.
- The fire-rated door makes sure that in case of any fire outside the data center, the facility will be safe from fire, and any incident of fire inside the data center will be contained within and suppressed using a fire suppression system.