Smart Rack solutions in Singapore. Intelligent power, monitoring, security and asset tracking in every cabinet.
eNOVA Technologies builds smart racks on Raritan intelligent PDUs, environmental sensors, electronic access control and asset management, unified by Sunbird DCIM. Specified and supported locally.
A standard rack, made intelligent.
A smart rack instruments an ordinary server cabinet so you can monitor, control and audit it over the network instead of walking the floor. Four intelligent layers sit inside the rack, with a DCIM platform turning their data into decisions.
Original eNOVA diagram. Smart rack components are Raritan intelligent PDUs, DX2 sensors, SmartLock and asset management, with Sunbird DCIM.
Dense racks can no longer be dumb.
A traditional enterprise rack draws around 5 to 10 kW. An AI rack is a different machine: a single NVIDIA DGX H100 pulls roughly 10 kW, four of them in a rack push past 40 kW, and a scalable unit of the reference design reaches around 326 kW. Newer GPU racks such as the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 run near 120 kW.
At those densities, power and heat leave no margin for guesswork. Legrand's AI reference design for the DGX H100 specifies three Raritan PX intelligent PDUs per rack on redundant 415V three-phase feeds, with DX2 temperature and humidity sensors and rear-door cooling. The intelligent rack is how high-density AI stays online.
- ~10 kW per DGX H100, four per rack, ~326 kW per scalable unit
- Three redundant Raritan PX PDUs per rack, 415V three-phase
- Per-outlet metering to track real load against capacity
- Sensors and DCIM to catch thermal risk before it bites
Source: Legrand AI Reference Design for the NVIDIA DGX H100 SuperPOD; rack-density figures from Uptime Institute and NVIDIA.
What makes a rack smart.
- Billing-grade metering, ±0.5% on PX4, ±1.0% on PX3
- Per-outlet metering and remote outlet switching
- Inputs up to 67 kVA, single and three-phase
- Cascade up to 32 PDUs under one network port
- SNMP, Modbus, Redfish and the Xerus platform
- Temperature and humidity at the rack
- Airflow and differential air pressure
- Spot and rope water-leak detection
- Contact, motion and vibration options
- Plug into the PDU sensor port, one cable run
- Networked electronic door handles, no mechanical key
- Up to 16 cabinets, 32 locks, under one IP address
- Card readers, with card plus PIN on the Advanced tier
- Remote unlock and a synchronised audit trail
- Supports physical-security compliance requirements
- Automatic inventory down to the 1U position
- 1-wire contact tags, not RFID, with unique IDs
- One RGB LED per U for change-management workflows
- Alerts on any tag add, remove or move
- Powered by the PDU, feeds DCIM over SNMP
Specifications from Raritan product datasheets at raritan.com. Figures are model-specific and vary across each range.
Four problems a smart rack solves.
ASHRAE recommends keeping IT equipment at 18 to 27°C. Rack sensors catch drift before throttling or failure. The Uptime Institute reports an outage costs over US$100,000 for more than half of operators.
Industry-average PUE has sat near 1.56 for years. Per-outlet metering and DCIM expose stranded capacity and wasted power so you can act on real data.
ISO/IEC 27001 calls for controlling and monitoring physical access to facilities. Electronic locks with per-cabinet audit trails extend that control to the rack.
With densities climbing you cannot eyeball headroom. DCIM models power, space and cooling, while intelligent PDUs enable true lights-out, remote management.
Sunbird DCIM ties the rack together.
The rack hardware is the nervous system. Sunbird DCIM is the brain, turning power, environmental, access and asset data into one live view of every cabinet.
Sunbird DCIM was spun out of Raritan in 2015, which is why the rack hardware and DCIM integrate natively. Source: Sunbird DCIM and Raritan.
From a single cabinet to a SuperPOD.
GPU clusters drawing 40 to 120 kW per rack, where metering, sensing and redundant power are non-negotiable.
Per-customer power billing, per-cabinet access control and audit, and clean capacity reporting.
Compliance-grade physical security, environmental assurance and remote management for critical rooms.
Lights-out monitoring and control where no staff are on site, with alerts the moment conditions drift.
Common questions about smart racks.
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