2bm has enhanced its Sensorium software, part of its range of environmental monitoring products, with new functionalities and “real-world” benchmarking data.

The company claims the automated software is now easier to use and can help organizations to understand their data center’s carbon footprint by providing real-time insight into environmental performance of facility components.

It said with data center managers under pressure to become more eco-friendly the software will enable companies to monitor power consumption down to rack level and calculate cumulative KwH.

The software is designed to track and monitor the impact of new data center designs and show how any changes to infrastructure can affect overall performance and efficiency.

Other improvements include automatic hardware benchmarking, graphical capacity planning functionality, per-cabinet regression analysis and real-time graphs.

2bm’s director of innovation Jason Preston said data center managers are often put off by the complexity and the amount of time spent on a full data center infrastructure management (DCIM) roll-out.

“Sensorium is now more straightforward to implement and use and as a fully customisable, bespoke software solution it truly gives the environmental control back to the data centre manager,” Preston said.