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Data Centres Ireland

Posted on: September 17th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at Data Centres Ireland, where we will be showcasing our range of solutions for power monitoring, data acquisition and sharing at the event taking place in November from 11th to the 12th in Dublin.

Synapsys can be found on stand 177 where visitors will be able to see our SIPp power monitoring solution, a simple, hardware-based system, developed to meet today’s need for clear, detailed power performance data.

More information about the conference and exhibition can be found here

Datacenter Dynamics – Converged 2014

Posted on: September 15th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys are happy to be exhibiting and being part of the DCD Converged London event which takes place on the 19th and 20th November.

DCD converged brings together the people, processes and technologies necessary to help delegates develop a world class data center strategy. The multi-track conference programme – headlined by a host of international experts keeps Europe’s most senior data center professionals up to speed with an industry changing at lightning speed.

Synapsys can be found on stand 224 where visitors will be able to see and discuss our SIPp power monitoring solution and our new SIPd data acquisition and sharing solutions.

See more information about the event here

DataCentre Solutions Europe

Posted on: August 8th, 2014 by copy No Comments

In their latest issue, DCS Europe talks to Andy Mullings, Data Centre Business Development Manager at Synapsys, about the company’s background in building management systems and how this has provided a great opportunity to expand into the data centre monitoring and management space.

Read the full article here

Smart technology, delivered simply

Posted on: August 5th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Take a look at our new corporate brochure and find out more about who we are and what we can do for you.

New Corporate brochure

Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is now a legal requirement!

Posted on: July 30th, 2014 by copy No Comments

From the 17th July the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) is now a legal requirement. The scheme enforces compulsory energy audits for all large enterprises who qualify for ESOS and are not fully covered by ISO 50001, to encourage the uptake of cost effective energy efficiency measures.

ESOS is only applicable to large enterprises (excluding public bodies). For the purposes of the scheme these are defined as:

  • An undertaking having 250+ employees
  • An undertaking that has a turnover of £42.5m+ and a balance sheet of £36.5m+
  • Being part of a corporate group which includes an undertaking that meets either of the above criteria.

Under the proposed scheme businesses will be required by law to comply with the scheme at least every four years by:

  • Providing a measurement of the energy use of their business (including electricity, gas, renewables, transport and industrial processes)
  • Commissioning on-site energy audits
  • Documenting the identification of cost effective energy efficiency recommendations
  • Reporting compliance to the scheme administrator – The Environment Agency (EA)
  • Maintain an ESOS Evidence Pack

Qualification for the first phase takes place on 31st December 2014 with the subsequent compliance date set for 5th December 2015. It is mandatory for any energy audits be overseen, conducted or reviewed by an approved ESOS Lead Assessor and reported to the EA by this time.

Synapsys products installed in your buildings and facilities can help towards complying with the new legal requirements for monitoring, documenting and maintaining your evidence packs. For more information about how our products can help please contact us by telephone or by email.

For more information about the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme please click here

New SIP range from Synapsys – SonNET-BeMS Interfaces

Posted on: July 29th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys Solutions is teaming up with field controls specialist Sontay, to deliver the SonNet powered by SIP interface – a simple new way to add monitoring points to a building energy management system (BeMS).

The new SIP interface for SonNet helps meet the demand for more detailed performance information in today’s intelligent buildings. Used with a BeMS, it gives improved control over energy use and can help ensure a building complies with Building Regulations Part L2.

The SIP device interfaces to a Sontay SonNet wireless receiver, which in turn draws key performance data from a network of wireless sensors around a building. Data readings such as temperature, humidity and CO2 levels, and volt free contact (VFC) are collected, and with the Synapsys interface functioning as a server on the BeMS, the data can easily be retrieved, logged, and presented in a detailed and flexible real-time format.

Read the full press release here

For more information about the new product range please visit Sontays website or contact them for sales on +44 (0)1732 861200.

Driving performance forward

Posted on: July 28th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Our ‘Drive of your Life’ prize draw went down a storm with visitors to our stand at Data Centre World earlier this year and this month our lucky winner Paul Clarke got the chance to follow in the tyre-tracks of the rich and famous – and their reasonably-priced cars! – at the Top Gear test track.

We had a great day at the track with Paul and the weather also played its part providing us with fantastic sunshine for the whole day, ideal for sampling the performance of the cars at the event.

The cars put through their paces on the day included the Aston Martin DB9, Audi R8 and Nissan GTR, with the Nissan being judged the best drive of the day thanks to its powerful acceleration and phenomenal cornering ability.

Paul tweeted after the event “Thanks to the guys from @SynapsysSIP for a great day yesterday. Everyone had a fantastic time”.

Below is a selection of pictures from the day.

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NETCOMMS Europe feature case study

Posted on: July 16th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Learn more about our SIPp and how its helping TalkTalk to monitor power at its data centres in the UK in the latest issue of NETCOMMS Europe.

Read the full article here

For more information about our SIPp products download the brochure here or contact Harvey Roft our Data Centre Business Development Manager to discuss your requirements.

Energy & Environment Expo prize draw

Posted on: June 24th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Thanks to everyone who visited the Synapsys stand last week at the Energy & Environment Expo, part of the Facilities show. We had a great time at the show, speaking with lots of new contacts, and hope you did too.

The prize draw to win one of our driving experiences proved very popular, and if you entered, you’ll be keen to find out if you’re in pole position!

The draw has now been made and the two lucky winners of our driving days are:

Energy & Environment Expo prize Draw

Claire Baker of Maidenhead, Berkshire and Scott Darrington of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

Our congratulations go to Claire and Scott. It’s time to get ready for the drive of your life!

To everyone who entered the draw and to those of you we spoke with at the show, thanks for making this a great event for us and we look forward to seeing you again at the Energy & Environment Expo 2015.

Synapsys can help drive building performance forward

Posted on: June 12th, 2014 by copy No Comments

prize draw flyer

Synapsys can help drive building performance forward, and our free prize draw at the Facilities Show (17-19 June at Excel) will get you into the fast lane.

Visit us on Stand P1650 in the Energy & Environment Expo , fill in your details on the entry form and leave it with our friendly team – you could win a thrilling driving experience!

SIPe ENERGY MONITORING FROM SYNAPSYS REVEALS ENERGY USE

Posted on: May 26th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Understanding when, where and how a building uses energy is the first step in any energy reduction plan, and Synapsys has developed SIPe to meet this need for clear, detailed energy performance data.

The hardware-based SIPe system is proving very popular, since with no ongoing software licences, unlimited users and no maintenance fees, it’s a cost-effective, flexible choice for estates and facilities managers working across a wide range of sectors.

The SIPe user interface is a graphical energy ‘dashboard’ display to allow the user to view live energy performance data gathered from a meter network covering a variety of plant and equipment located around an estate.

Read the full press release here

Synapsys Showcases energy monitoring at the facilities show

Posted on: April 29th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys will be helping facilities people from all backgrounds to improve building performance, as it shows its range of solutions for energy monitoring, power monitoring, BMS interfacing, and data acquisition and sharing at the Facilities Show in June.

Synapsys can be found in the Energy & Environment Expo, the area of the show dedicated to energy and environmental management, where visitors will be able to see the new SIPe energy monitoring solution, a simple, hardware-based system, developed to meet today’s need for clear, detailed energy performance data.

Read our full show press release here

Building Intelligence – Synapsys shows its true colours

Posted on: April 15th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys Solutions, UK leader in developing and supplying innovative BMS communication interfaces, has a fresh new look – and customers working in sectors across the built environment will be seeing a lot more of it.

With a new user-friendly website, new branding, attendance at forthcoming exhibitions and a growing presence in trade media, Synapsys is responding to the way people work in today’s building controls industry.

The new approach makes it easier than ever for facilities people to see how Synapsys can help improve building performance in schools, hospitals, hotels, sport and leisure facilities, data centres, social housing, and all kinds of other buildings.

Harvey Roft, managing director at Synapsys, explains: “Our products are known for being intuitive and easy to use for people from any background, not just engineers. But we felt our previous look focussed too much on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the technology, so our new image reflects more how we work with people in a wide range of sectors, helping them see how their building performs – and how it can work better.”

Read the full press release here

DCS Awards 2014 finalists – please vote for us

Posted on: April 1st, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys has reached the finals in this year’s DCS Awards with its entry in the “Data Centre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year” category. The submission outlines the benefits of the new SIPp power monitoring solution, which offers a cost-effective, accurate and easy-to-use option for data centre power monitoring.

Run by Data Centre Solutions, one of the leading publications in the industry, the DCS Awards are a high-profile annual event held to recognise excellence in the data centre arena. The “Energy Efficiency Product” category showcases products designed to deliver savings and control of energy usage in the data centre environment.

The winner will be decided by public vote, and with voting now open, we hope you will get behind us and support our entry to help SIPp power monitoring get the industry recognition it deserves.

We think SIPp deserves to win, as it offers a cost-effective, accurate and easy-to-use option for data centre power monitoring. The winner will be decided by public vote and voting is now open. We hope you will get behind us and vote for our entry.

Synapsys Solutions supporting AUE 2014

Posted on: March 17th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys are once again exhibiting and pleased to be supporting the Association of University Engineers  –  AUE 2014 annual conference.

This years conference is taking place in Bradford, from 3 to the 5 September with the theme Building a Self-Sustaining Future: Making a Difference Together.

At the event we will be showcasing our latest product developments, SIPe energy monitoring system with energy dashboard as well as providing information on our latest University projects.

For more information about the conference and the AUE visit the event website.

We look forward to meeting new people and our existing customers in Bradford.

Seeing is believing feature article in LABM magazine

Posted on: March 14th, 2014 by copy No Comments

The March addition of Local Authority building & maintenance magazine features an article by Matt Gardner, Sales and marketing manager at Synapsys –  focusing on the benefits of providing clear energy data to all building users.

Schools, colleges, academies and universities face their own unique Challenges when it comes to energy management. Although the same building users occupy the building day in, day out, they are so numerous and so removed from the sharp end of paying the energy bill, that it can seem impossible to bring about behavioural changes with a view to reducing energy usage.

The full article can be seen in the March issue of the magazine or download it here.

Data centre news

Posted on: March 10th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys are pleased to have had our SIPp power monitoring product included in the data centre news review of the Data centre world and Cloud expo shows, which took place recently at the Excel in London.

You can read the full Data centre news review of the show here

Data Centre World prize draw

Posted on: March 4th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Thanks to everyone who visited the Synapsys stand last week at Data Centre World. We had a great time at the show and hope you did too.

The prize draw to win one of our driving experiences proved very popular, and if you entered, you’ll be keen to find out if you’re in pole position!

The draw has now been made and the two lucky winners of our driving days are:

DCW prize Draw

Jessica Gold of London and Paul Clarke of Orpington, Kent

Our congratulations go to Jessica and Paul. It’s time to get ready for the drive of your life!

To everyone who entered the draw and to those of you we spoke with at the show, thanks for making this a great event for us and we look forward to seeing you again at Data Centre World 2015.

Data Centre World 2014 a success for Synapsys

Posted on: March 3rd, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys had a great time last week at Data Centre World 2014, speaking with lots of interested people and press about our new SIPp power monitoring solution.

We hope all attendees at the show enjoyed themselves as much as we did and for any of our stand visitors we hope you got your pink pig money box home safely.

We will see you all again at next years event.

ESTA aM&T conference 2014

Posted on: February 20th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys Solutions will be exhibiting on stand 12 at the ESTA automatic Monitoring & Targeting conference at The Ricoh Arena, Coventry on 27th February 2014.

We will be demonstrating our latest SIPe hardware based energy monitoring, targeting and display system designed to give you live time data of your energy consumption to identify areas for improvement and to reduce your consumption.

Who should attend? – All those with a responsibility for:

  • Managing energy use.
  • Policy and strategic approach to energy.
  • Designing building services for sustainability and low energy/carbon use.
  • Purchasing energy and energy related services and products.

For more information, or to register to attend the event please visit: www.esta.org.uk

Data Centre World 2014

Posted on: February 18th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Don’t forget we will be exhibiting at Data Centre World 2014, the exhibition is taking place at the Excel in London between 26th and 27th February.

This is a brand new show for Synapsys and you will be able to find us on stand D85, where we will be showcasing our new SIPp power monitoring product range designed for the monitoring of power use in Data Centres.

Come and visit us on our stand to find out more, and to enter our prize draw to win one of two driving experiences.

For more information or to register to attend the event visit www.datacentreworld.com.

The Energy & Environment Expo at the Facilities Show 2014

Posted on: February 10th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys Solutions will be exhibiting at this years Energy and Environment expo as part of the larger Facilities Show taking place 17-19 June, at Excel in London.

Following on from a very successful show this year at the NEC and with the show moving to London in 2014, Synapsys were very happy to be part of what we believe will be another successful event.

Energy & Environment Expo

You will be able to find us on stand P1650 in the new Energy & Environment section of the show, demonstrating our SIPe range of products and innovative local and public energy dashboard displays.

For more information about the show please visit www.facilitiesshow.com.

Electrical review SIPp feature

Posted on: February 6th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Andy Mullings our data centre business development manager recently spoke with Electrical review about PUE, energy efficiency and how these can dovetail with uptime targets in our Electrical review SIPp feature piece.

Read the online feature here or download the here.

Swindon College select the SIPe for energy monitoring

Posted on: January 18th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Swindon College have selected SIPe from Synapsys Solutions as their onsite energy monitoring solution for the Phoenix Building, a four story multi use building on campus.

The SIPe system will collect data from over 30 meters already installed making it the perfect retrofit solution. SIPe will provide the Estates and Finance teams easy access to the energy data visualised through easy to configure dashboards for multiple users.

Each user will be able to configure their dashboard so it is relevant to them and public display dashboards can be viewed through the screens across campus to engage with students and staff. The Estates Team will be able to easily monitor consumption to identify trends and areas for improvement whilst the Finance Team will be able to monitor costs, all in real time.

SIPe is being installed and commissioned early in 2014 and has been specified for the new workshop buildings being built next year. Following evaluation it is envisaged that SIPe will provide energy monitoring across the entire campus

Synapsys to launch SIPp power monitoring solution at Data Centre World

Posted on: January 15th, 2014 by copy No Comments

Synapsys Solutions, will be launching its new SIPp power monitoring solution at Data Centre World in February.

Power and energy monitoring is crucial for data centres of all sizes, minimising the risk of downtime, revealing ways to reduce energy usage, and helping achieve building performance targets. Synapsys’ new SIPp power monitoring solution offers a flexible and cost-effective way to give managers all the performance data they need.

With its user-friendly graphic ‘dashboard’ display, SIPp presents real-time data in an easy-to-read format. It’s simple to select which information feeds are to feature on the dashboard, creating a customised display that gives instant access to relevant key data on a site’s power usage and performance.

The data provided by the SIPp system gives insight into actual rack power usage, key to improving a data centre’s power usage effectiveness (PUE). It promptly and accurately monitors customers’ power usage down to individual rack level, protecting the integrity and safety of the network by identifying potential uptime issues within the data centre.

Harvey Roft, managing director at Synapsys Solutions, says: “We know from our extensive experience in energy monitoring and BMS interfacing that data centres have a real need for accurate, real-time power monitoring information in a more accessible format, so we developed our new SIPp range to provide an easy-to-use, cost-effective option.”

SIPp offers a scalable hardware-only solution, with no ongoing licence or service costs. It is suitable for use as a standalone power monitoring system, and can also be connected to a BMS for integrated energy management.

The range includes options for AC power monitoring, branch circuit monitoring, and DC power monitoring, so it can be tailored to each site’s requirements. SIPp is suitable for new build projects, while its non-intrusive installation also makes it ideal for retro-fit applications.

To find out how SIPp can help you, and to enter our exclusive exhibition prize draw, come and talk to the Synapsys power monitoring experts on Stand D85 at Data Centre World, 26-27th February 2014.