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New sensor technology boosts, expands AVTECH capabilities

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Nancy Kirsch

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09/22/2017

SMALL PRODUCT, big LEAP: Rich Grundy, right, president of AVTECH Software, talks about the company’s new Active Power Sensor with Marketing Manager Russel Benoit, left, and company founder and CEO Michael Sigourney, middle. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | MANUFACTURING Checking the power status of multiple servers in a data center is an information technology department nightmare. It’s a time-consuming and often expensive process of powering down, unplugging and then restarting multiple servers to get readings and notifications. Now, AVTECH Software Inc. offers customers a cost-effective, straightforward and fast solution –

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INNOVATIVE COMPANIES | MANUFACTURING Checking the power status of multiple servers in a data center is an information technology department nightmare. It’s a time-consuming and often expensive process of powering down, unplugging and then restarting multiple servers to get readings and notifications. Now, AVTECH Software Inc. offers customers a cost-effective, straightforward and fast solution – the Active Power Sensor. Paired with AVTECH’s Room Alert, which monitors things such as temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, air flow and room entry in computer rooms, data centers and other facilities, the new sensor electronically monitors and reports the power status of a specific electronic device in real time. “The real benefit is that the sensor, which you simply strap to the outside of any AC-powered cable, allows you to monitor equipment that may have been difficult, impossible or expensive to monitor before,” said Richard Grundy, president of the privately held company in Warren. Consider just one customer’s situation: A large telecommunications and cable operator’s production center has more than 800 racks of equipment, which contain more than 4,800 individual power feeds that couldn’t be modified or powered down without impacting thousands of customers. “It can be installed in a matter of seconds,” Grundy said. It is manufactured in the United States and will function in environments that range from 257°F to -67°F. The sensor was developed after a customer experienced an unexpected computer issue – due to an individual server’s power failure – and sought a solution. It took nearly half a year to design, prototype, file patents on and bring manufacturing into full production. That, said Grundy, is a very short time to bring any new hardware product to market. AVTECH’s client base is intrigued with the new innovation, said Grundy. “We expect to begin shipping these patent-pending sensors – approximately the size and weight of a USB thumb drive – in mid-September, and we’re seeing lots of activity and interest,” he said.