Are your systems able to withstand severe weather threats or power failures? Learn how a nationwide bank restored critical cooling without infrastructure changes.

Have your industrial control systems been put to the test? Do you have monitoring and control mechanisms in place to face a natural disaster?

After an HVAC retrofit in 2022, the headquarters of a nationwide bank in Australia encountered an unplanned shutdown of their data center, which was critical to their banking operations. Learn how they quickly bounced back, despite facing strict regulations, time constraints, and a list of new required system features.

The HVAC refit removed a central chiller to improve the facility’s energy efficiency. In its place, individual cooling systems were installed on each floor to regulate temperature independently.

But what no one realized at the time was that the original chiller also cooled the bank’s backup generator.

Routine testing gave the bank confidence that its backup generator was storm-ready—until late 2023, when a major storm hit. Power failures forced the generator to run for extended periods, but without the chilled water from the old system, it overheated and shut down, putting the entire banking network at risk.

The bank knew to enlist the help of long-time partner ProSwitched, an Australia-based company with expert knowledge of electrical installations and maintenance strategies. Knowing that the bank wanted real-time diagnostics, alerts, and automation to ensure their IT infrastructure would not have any more unplanned shutdowns, ProSwitched turned to Binford Tech, an Australian industrial controls distributor, to supply the hardware and technical expertise.

In this case study, find out how ProSwitched and Binford Tech worked together to leverage the flexibility of Opto 22's groov EPIC and groov RIO to scale the bank's cooling systems without major infrastructure changes and implement cost-effective upgrades.

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