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Data Center & Power Infrastructure
SOT engineers resilient and scalable data center environments. Supplying enterprise UPS systems, smart PDUs, thermal cooling systems, and specialized network cabinets, SOT guarantees continuous operation and operational efficiency.
A data centre or comms room is a power and cooling problem wearing a networking costume. The equipment inside it is usually the easy part; what decides whether the room survives a hot Riyadh afternoon or a utility dip is the UPS sizing, the heat rejection, the distribution and the discipline of the cabling inside the cabinets.
The mistake that costs most is sizing for today's load. A UPS chosen to match present draw has no headroom, so the first additional server pushes it past its rating, and a battery autonomy calculated at full load gives far less runtime than the label suggests once the room is actually full. Load, growth and required autonomy have to be stated separately and designed to together.
Cooling is the second. Heat is roughly proportional to the power drawn, so a rack pulling 6kW rejects 6kW into the room, and a comms room with a domestic split unit and no return path will sit above its equipment's rated inlet temperature for most of the summer. Hot and cold aisle separation, blanking panels and a sensible airflow path do more for reliability than any single component in the rack.
What this covers
UPS and battery systems
Online double-conversion UPS sized from measured load plus growth, with battery autonomy calculated at the load it will actually carry rather than at the nameplate.
Power distribution
Rack PDUs, metered and switched, with dual feeds where equipment has dual supplies — and phase balance checked rather than assumed.
Cabinets and containment
Racks and enclosures with blanking panels, brush strips and hot or cold aisle containment, so air goes through the equipment instead of around it.
Cooling and airflow
Precision cooling sized against real heat load, with an airflow path designed end to end rather than a unit installed on whichever wall was free.
Environmental monitoring
Temperature, humidity, leak and door monitoring with alerting, so a failed cooling unit is known about before equipment starts shutting down.
Structured cabling in the rack
Pre-terminated trunks, patching and management inside the cabinet, because airflow and serviceability both die under a mat of unmanaged patch leads.
Generator interface
Coordination between UPS, transfer switching and standby generation, so the handover between sources happens inside the UPS's ride-through window.
Energy measurement
Metering at feed, rack and circuit level, which is the only way a facility's efficiency can be improved rather than guessed at.
Explore in detail
Each of these has a page of its own — what it involves, what it covers, and the questions that decide the specification.
How we deliver it
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Site survey
An engineer walks the site and records what is actually there — cable routes, containment, power, ceiling voids, existing equipment and its condition. Most of the cost overruns on a project of this kind are either discovered here or discovered late.
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Design and Bill of Quantities
A drawn design and an itemised BoQ: every part, its quantity and its price, with the reasoning for the specification written beside it. You own the document whether or not you buy from us.
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Supply from Riyadh stock
Equipment released against the BoQ from local stock where we hold it, or ordered directly from the vendor where we do not. Serial numbers are recorded against your project, so a warranty claim later does not depend on you having kept the paperwork.
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Installation and commissioning
Our own engineers install, terminate, configure and test. The testing is documented — link certification, camera fields of view, failover checks — and the results are handed over as part of the file rather than described verbally.
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Handover and support
As-built drawings, configuration backups, credentials and test results, plus training for whoever will run it day to day. Support and warranty are handled by the same team that installed it.
Standards and regulations
What a deployment is measured against. A consultant or a main contractor will check a proposal against these, so they are named rather than implied.
- ANSI/TIA-942
- Data centre telecommunications infrastructure, including the tier topology that decides whether a facility can be maintained while it is running rather than only while it is off.
- ASHRAE thermal guidelines
- Recommended and allowable inlet temperature and humidity envelopes for IT equipment. These are what a cooling design is actually measured against, and the recommended envelope is wider than most people assume.
- IEC 62040
- Uninterruptible power systems — classification, performance and test requirements, including the definitions behind terms like online and line-interactive that vendors use loosely.
- Saudi Building Code
- Electrical installation, earthing and bonding requirements, plus fire compartmentation and suppression for a room containing this much electrical plant.
- Saudi Energy Efficiency Programme
- Efficiency expectations bearing on cooling plant and on how a facility's energy use is measured and reported.
Sectors we deploy this in
Questions we get asked
How is UPS capacity sized for a data center or server room?
SOT conducts a power-load audit of your site to size UPS, PDU, and cooling capacity correctly.
Can SOT retrofit an existing server room's cooling system?
Yes, SOT designs both new-build and retrofit thermal cooling deployments.
What brands does SOT deploy for network cabinets?
SOT works with Rittal and Legrand, among others, for specialized network cabinet infrastructure.