The Kestrel Environmental Control Centre enables you to automatically keep a constant and watchful eye over the status of your office or computer room environment.

Kestrel can automatically monitor any type of office condition, using sensors to check on temperature, humidity, noise etc. By using an uninterruptable power supply, Kestrel can even detect and warn you about Power Cuts!

With Kestrel, it is easy to define acceptable and unacceptable levels for the conditions you wish to monitor. Kestrel then keeps a check and will warn you if the condition ever becomes unacceptable. Using the standard options, Kestrel can inform you by playing a message on one or more PC’s around your network, by sending you a specific e-mail, or by issuing a broadcast message to everyone on the network.

However, the full power of Kestrel becomes unleashed when you combine the Environmental Control Centre with the optional "Telephony Module", which links the software module with your telephone system. With this option in place, Kestrel can monitor your office environment and in the event of an unacceptable condition, it can detect the time of day, and if during office hours, it can inform you at your workplace, but outside of office hours it can ring you up at home and play one of any number of pre-recorded message to tell you about the problem. Kestrel can then act in a number of different ways, depending on the keys you press on your telephone at home!

Similarly, Kestrel can react if you ring into the system from home and can provide you with information, depending on the instructions you provide.

A better understanding of the true power of Kestrel can be achieved from the following example scenario:

The Environmental Control Module is monitoring the temperature of the computer room and detects an increase in temperature to a warning condition level. In this case, if it is during normal office hours, it informs the computer manager, otherwise it ignores it. If the temperature continues to rise, and reaches an unacceptable level, then Kestrel will inform the Computer Manager and will ring him up at home if necessary. He will be given the option to close down the computer, or start to transfer key information from the production computer to the backup computer in the regional office. He can choose an option from his telephone keypad. Depending on his answer, Kestrel will perform a number of tasks, which may include initiating data file transfers, logging a call to the air-conditioning service company and calling the fire brigade!

Prices for the Environmental Control Centre will vary, depending on your configuration, but as they start from as little as £800 (plus VAT), why not call us for more details?