While the majority of Australian new car sales still use either petrol or diesel engines, at government level, there is growing pressure to encourage the adoption of EVs (electric vehicles). In Adelaide, this trend is being fuelled (pardon the pun) by local government with many councils installing EV charging stations across their local government area.

The Future Fuels Fund has approved $24.55m in funding to applicants across 19 projects to expand Australia’s fast charging network for electric vehicles. These first round funds represent an increase of $8.05m more than originally planned due to the strength of applicants.

The funded charging stations will be located in 14 of Australia’s most populous cities and regional areas as part of a $71.9m initiative to remove barriers to the uptake of EV vehicles.

In addition, many local councils around South Australia are installing public EV charging stations subsidised by JOLT, a European company which specialises in fast charger infrastructure. For users of the charging stations, costs for recharging their vehicles is often subsidised by the local council.

You can expect to see more EV chargers around Adelaide and major regional centres in the very near future. Once the infrastructure is in place, the number of EV vehicles will quickly escalate.

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According to a report from McKinsey & Company, global sales of electric vehicles (EV) currently account for approx. 2.8% of light vehicle sales. However, research conducted by Deloitte indicates global EV sales will grow to about 32% by 2030.

Here in Australia, the Future Fuels Fund and many South Australian local councils are rolling out a fast charging network. (See article below for more information.)

MCS supplies a number of different brands of commercial grade EV chargers including Schneider and Aussie-grown Tritium.

Interestingly, Tritium now exports its EV chargers to 41 countries. It claims its chargers are located in regions that reach minimum temperatures of -35°C and maximum temperatures of +50°C. In large parts of Australia, the ability for commercial grade EV chargers to withstand these high temperatures is a definite advantage.

Tritium also offers some of the most advanced and reliable DC fast chargers for electric vehicles with units ranging from 50kW to 350kW. It’s also the first company to implement plug and charge capabilities which enable EVs and charging equipment to communicate and transact through the charging cable. In commercial applications where users pay for their charging, this is a remarkable capability.

Reliable advice and expertise for your application

When selecting EV charging infrastructure, there’s a lot to consider and there aren’t many specialists available in Australia to provide advice. But that’s one of the benefits of dealing with MCS Distribution.

We work directly with businesses and resellers to supply high-quality products to achieve efficiency, reliability and improve productivity.

For information on the best EV charging infrastructure for your application, get in touch with MCS or request a quote.

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• More than doubling the size of the hospital, including an upgrade of the Day Procedure Unit from 14 chairs to 30 chairs
• A new additional operating theatre
• Refurbishment of the patient recovery area
• New six bed Chest Pain Unit refurbishment of patient accommodation and ward
• Refurbishment of main entrance with new café, pharmacy and reception
• Significant infrastructure and support services upgrades

Critical power supplies are a matter of life or death for the healthcare industry. Facilities rely on their IT and medical equipment for patient care, and equipment relies on the availability of electrical power. In an effort to reinforce their emergency power systems, hospitals and healthcare facilities are adding UPS systems alongside their emergency power systems to ensure continued operation.

The objectives of today’s healthcare providers are therefore twofold; provide the best and safest level of patient care, while ensuring reliable infrastructure performance at the best possible cost.

Consider a hospital’s operating theatres, intensive care units or emergency departments; these areas require constant power to treat critically ill people.
Hospitals must meet strict regulatory requirements related to keeping the power infrastructure compliant, which creates its own set of unique challenges including allocation of capital budget and the need for continuous training and testing, etc.

MCS worked with the consulting engineer to provide the best in class power protection solution for the hospital. Working closely with the electrical contractor, our team successfully supplied and commissioned a 120kW modular UPS system with seven 20kW power modules and a 60kVA external transformer. In doing so, we were able to provide a few key benefits to the project, namely:

• Decentralised Parallel Architecture with true modular redundancy
• High availability
• Low total cost of ownership

While the hospital upgrade is still in progress, our UPS is now fully installed and commissioned. All feedback from the contractor has been positive to date. When asked, the director of the electrical contractor had this to say:

‘MCS were successful in winning the UPS package for the Hospital upgrade project supplying a 120kVA system. Their service throughout the construction phase was excellent with constant communication and updates on the progress of procurement. The commissioning went well with client training and the final set-up of the system transitioning smoothly.

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Moving closer to the edge

The biggest change on the minds of industry leaders today is how the edge may disrupt the way data centres operate. The edge represents access at the point of convenience for the user – in other words, devices connected to the data centre ecosystem that use its resources. And these devices are growing more numerous and more powerful by the day.

The big difference with all these new devices is mobility. The days of desktops and routers are fading to the past. We’re constantly on the move, and our digital companions need to be able to keep up the pace.

That means that data centres – like our devices – need to miniaturise. Speed and efficiency might not be deal breakers when carrying out routine tasks like sending an email or sharing a Facebook status, but when it comes to driverless vehicles, video conferences and stock trading, those few extra microseconds can spell disaster.

How things will change

We know these changes are going to continue to disrupt how businesses operate and depend on technology. So how do we deal with that change?

Well, for the typical CIO, IT manager or general IT department, things will stay relatively the same – the trajectories of these industries will continue to move up. But the infrastructure supporting businesses is bound to cause issues if decision makers aren’t prepared to consider the edge in their strategies.

That means rolling out edge data centres to branch offices and remote sites, ensuring important data is processed on-site and not sent to the far reaches of the planet for processing. This is especially true in countries such as Australia, where these distances can be debilitatingly large.

And that’s where MCS steps in.

How we can help

We can help you efficiently manage your critical equipment with the racks and integrated cabinets that we offer. We take into account important trends such as how the edge will affect your business needs in the future. By doing this, we know we can provide your business with a sustainable solution to your infrastructure needs.

We understand that businesses today vary in size and have different equipment needs. That’s why we provide different racks and integrated cabinets to meet your varied business setups.

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What is a precision cooling system?

Precision cooling is an air conditioning or cooling technique that is used specifically for IT environments to directly cool electronic and IT equipment. Precision air conditioning maintains temperature and humidity within a very narrow range to provide environmental stability which is required by sensitive electronic equipment.  Thus allowing your business to avoid expensive downtime. In order to offer the most ideal space usage to suit the possibility of the fast development of IT equipment, current data centres have implemented a high-density model with a view of on edge server innovation.

Why Would I need a precision cooling system?

If your business has IT equipment infrastructure then you will probably need a precision cooling system. Precision air conditioning maintains temperature and humidity within a very narrow range, it provides the environment stability that is required by sensitive electronic equipment, allowing your business to avoid expensive downtime.

Delta – The most reliable and efficient cooling solutions

In order to offer the most ideal space usage, and to suit the possibly fast development of new IT equipment, current data centres have implemented a high-density model, in view of on edge server innovation. This model requires a higher power supply density and can along these lines make increasingly noteworthy issues with heat dissipation. To address these issues, nonstop presicion cooling can be used as a cooling system solution. However, the cost of utilizing this technique for data centre cooling can be quite costly representing up to 45% of the all-out power costs acquired by the data centre. In view of this, heat dissemination and power costs are significant records against which operational consumptions of the data centre can be measured.

Delta is a global leading producer of fans and a specialist in power management. Delta’s precision cooling enthalpy laboratory carefully verifies cooling system performance and reliability during the engineering development and design process to ensure high product performance.  Specific types of cooling and temperature control have been created to cater the unique cooling system needs of modern data centres. Traditional precision air conditioning is not appropriate in many cases as a data centre cooling system. This type of air conditioning cannot provide adequate heat removal for data.

What makes Delta Different?

High Availability

• Built-in dual power supply with dual input for better power reliability
• Rectifiers and fan that support hot swappable, greatly reducing maintenance time
• Panel made of cold-rolled steel plate and coated with surface electrostatic spraying
• Built-in leakage detector capable of leak display and alert
• Modular rack design readily expandable by load to enable quick configuration
• Built-in manual dehumidifying for quick and precise dehumidification
• Supporting group control and used as backup

High Flexibility

• Chilled water pipe suitable for both top and bottom insertion, with flexible configuration as required
• Wheels on bottom for easy moving to locations that need cooling
• Disposable filter with high efficiency (MERV 8 ASHRAE 52.2, 45mm); washable MERV 1 filter is available for purchase to save cost
• Remote monitoring can be carried out through SNMP card, providing more comprehensive system protection

High Efficiency

• To comply with the high power density of racks, the RowCool series cooling capacity can increase up to 60kW (HCH1870) without changing footprint
• When Applied to the high temperature settings of inlet water, outdoor units save on power consumption by up to 15~20% when the chiller water temperature increases from 5°C to 12°C
• Continuously variable speed fan design for energy saving
• Cooling system capable of variable flow control for energy saving
• Built-in vortex wafer flow meter capable of monitoring chilled water flow that renders easy display of system status

Contact us for more information regarding a precision power cooling system for your IT Equipment

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We supplied the new SAHMRI building with a number of small and medium sized Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units and an ASCO closed transition transfer switch with bypass. (Image via sahmri.com by Peter Clarke).

National Broadband Network (NBN)

We’re excited to be supporting the NBN rollout, assisting with ATS power switching. See the rollout’s progress here: http://www.nbnco.com.au

Aldi Distribution Centre, Regency Park, South Australia

Congratulations Matt Sanders from Badge Constructions on the recent Australian Institute of Building Award for the work on the new Aldi Distribution Centre.

We were proud to supply 2 Computer Room Air Conditioning units for the project. Image via Badge website.

See all winners here.

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• 4 x Liebert 90kW CRAC units

Adelaide University Medical and Nursing School
North Terrace, Adelaide SA

• 2 x Liebert 50kW CRAC units

ECH
Greenhill Road, Parkside SA

• 1 x Liebert 20kW CRAC unit

Defence Science & Technology Group Lab 42
Edinburgh, SA

• 2 x Liebert 35kW In-Row CRV CRAC units

Defence Science & Technology Group Lab 220
Edinburgh, SA

• 1 x Liebert 70kW CRAC unit

RAAF Building 205 Lab A1-33
Edinburgh, SA

• 1 x Liebert 15kW CRAC unit

SA Government Radio Network Operations Centre
State Administration Building
Victoria Square, Adelaide SA

• 2 x Liebert 70kW CRAC units

SA Government Radio Network Site Rail Depot
Dry Creek, SA

• 1 x Liebert 15kW CRAC unit
• 1 x Delta HPH Series B 40kVA UPS unit

South Australian State Library
North Terrace, Adelaide SA

• 1 x Liebert 30kW CRAC unit

Speedcast
Mawson Lakes SA

• 4 x Liebert 70kW CRAC units

Mix102 Radio Station
Adelaide, SA

• 2 x Liebert 30kVA UPS units
• ASCO automatic transfer switch for generator

SA Police
Communications Centre, Adelaide SA

• 1 x Liebert 35kW CRAC unit
• 2 x Liebert 120kVA UPS units with 5 external battery cabinets

Nine Network
New Perth site, WA

• 3 x Liebert 60kW CRAC unit
• 2 x Liebert 200kVA UPS units with 3 external battery cabinets

Department of Environment, Water & Natural Resources
Waymouth Street, Adelaide SA

• 6 x Liebert 20kW In-Row CRAC units
• 1 x Liebert 80kVA UPS unit
• 1 x ASCO 7000 Series 400A automatic transfer switch
• Rack containment solution
• 14 x Liebert S Series racks with 30 x smart power rails
• Liebert RDU monitoring solution

For all your mission critical equipment requirements in 2018, be sure to contact us.

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• Emerson SmartCabinet (Data Centre in a Rack) and
• Video Matrix Switch

on display. Both of these solutions are very attractive solutions to Local, State and Federal Government customers.

If you plan on attending this event, please contact us and we can arrange for the Emerson team to give you a live demo of their SmartCabinet and a high performance Video Matrix Switch.

Plus we can introduce you to Emerson’s integrated modular data solutions team.

Download a free ticket for the expo here.

About the event:

Technology in Government is Australia’s largest ICT event for the Public Sector. It combines a high- level conference with a large scale exhibition, bringing together senior Public Sector Technologists and Communications Experts to learn, network and source ICT solutions for the ongoing transformation within Government.

Read more about the event here.

About the expo:

Technology in Government is Australia’s largest showcase of the most important ICT software, platforms and services to help to drive public sector & enterprise transformation.

If you are involved in evaluating, purchasing or implementing technology within your department or organisation, then this is where you can:

• Meet with over 75+ exhibitors demonstrating the most advanced technologies driving ICT initiatives at all levels of government
• Attend FREE seminar sessions where you can hear from world leading solution providers
• Understand which ICT products and services can help you achieve cost savings and improve effectiveness

Expo dates and times:

Tuesday 2 August: 10:00am – 5:00pm

Wednesday 3 August: 10:00am – 3:30pm

Read more about the expo here.

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