Battery Rooms

Most data centres incorporate a battery room, used to ensure an uninterruptable power supply and potentially to modulate peaks in energy pricing. Increasingly, these use lithium ion batteries which, while undoubtedly more versatile, represent a serious fire hazard. A thermal runaway event in a single battery will cause a very hot burning fire which is hard to extinguish and will rapidly spread to other units: therefore, the highest level of early warning is desirable in order to give operators a chance to respond before a fire incident becomes unmanageable.

For this key challenge, Securiton recommends a unique combination of technologies. By pairing the localisable heat detection of our SecuriHeat d-LIST device with a specialized gas sensor designed to detect the gas given off by li-ion batteries as a precursor to a thermal runaway, the alarm can be raised before a fire starts. The gas sensors can be incorporated into the air-sampling system of a SecuriSmoke ASD, lending them the effectiveness of an active sampling system while also ensuring smoke detection for the battery room as well.