A GSPE smart rack with a blue-lit interior standing beside glass aisle-containment doors in a white data hall

Smart Rack & Aisle Containment

From edge to enterprise.

One partner for IT infrastructure: an all-in-one Smart Rack for the edge, sealed aisle containment for the hall, and IoT monitoring across both.

Talk to engineering → See the system

The system, end to end

One line. Three pillars.

Smart Rack puts a whole micro data center in a single cabinet. Aisle containment scales it across the hall. IoT monitoring watches both in real time.

Smart Rack

Compute / Power / Cooling / Monitoring

Compute, UPS power, precision cooling, and monitoring integrated into a single 42U cabinet. A complete edge or micro data center, deployable anywhere.

Aisle Containment

Hot / Cold separation, scalable

Sealed hot and cold separation that holds cooling at the rack face and grows row by row as the hall fills. The technical core of the cooling story.

IoT Monitoring

Touchscreen HMI, real-time metrics

Touchscreen HMI and DCIM telemetry surface power, temperature, and environment live, with threshold alerting across every rack and aisle.

GSPE rack enclosure, the building block of every pillar

Pillar 1 / the edge

A data center, in one cabinet.

The GSPE Smart Rack folds compute, UPS power, precision cooling, and intelligent monitoring into a single 42U enclosure. Roll it into a branch, a factory floor, or a remote site and the room becomes a data center.

42U

Single sealed cabinet, edge footprint

4-in-1

Compute, power, cooling, monitoring

Closed

Self-contained airflow, no room cooling needed

Live

On-board HMI and telemetry, day one

A GSPE engineer in a blue shirt working at an open rack, wiring and servicing equipment inside the cabinet — GSPE engineer commissioning a Smart Rack on site

Pillar 2 / the hall

Open aisle mixes.
Contained aisle separates.

Left, an open aisle: cold supply and hot exhaust meet in the room, bypass air never does work, recirculated exhaust drives inlet temperatures up, and hot spots form. Right, a sealed barrier holds cold supply in front of the racks and captures exhaust behind it.

Cold supply air Hot exhaust air Mixing and recirculation, open aisle only

A technician standing inside a sealed cold aisle between two rows of racks, lit blue, with the contained corridor closed overhead

From diagram to data hall.

The airflow above is not a render. Brush seals, roof panels and end-of-row doors hold the cold air at the rack face on a live, running floor.

What seals the aisle

Six parts, made to measure.

Every component is fabricated to fit your rack height and row length, then assembled into the rooms you already run.

Roof Panels

Solid aluminium or clear polycarbonate close the top of the aisle. Clear panels keep light and CCTV sightlines through the hall while still sealing the contained volume.

Aisle Doors

Sliding or swing end doors with self-closing hinges and viewing panels seal the aisle ends and stay shut on their own.

Blanking Panels

Snap-in panels seal every empty rack U so air cannot short-circuit through the rack face. The cheapest fix for inlet recirculation.

Brush Grommets and Floor Seals

Brush-sealed cable cutouts and floor seals close the gaps where cabling and frames meet the raised floor and slab.

End-of-Row Baffles

Filler baffles bridge mismatched rack heights and the gaps at row ends, so the contained volume stays fully sealed.

Fire-Safe Drop-Away Roof

Fusible-link, gravity-release roof panels drop clear on a fire signal, so containment never blocks sprinkler discharge.

Contain the cold, or contain the hot.

Both stop the mixing. The right choice depends on your room, your CRAC layout, and how dense the racks get.

Cold-aisle containment

Contain the supply

Seal the cold aisle into a corridor. The rest of the room becomes the hot return. Simplest retrofit on a raised-floor hall.

Lowest-disruption retrofit, works with existing CRAC return paths
Cold corridor stays cool, the room runs warm but uniform
Ideal for raised-floor halls up to moderate rack density

Best when you are retrofitting an existing raised-floor room and want the fastest win.

Hot-aisle containment

Contain the exhaust

Seal the hot aisle and duct exhaust to a ceiling plenum. The whole room becomes cool supply, so operators work in comfortable space.

Highest return-air temperature, best chiller and economiser efficiency
Supports the highest rack densities without hot spots
Cool, comfortable room for staff, pairs with overhead cooling

Best when new build or high-density halls of 15 kW per rack and up with a ceiling return plenum.

What sealing the path returns.

Once the air stops mixing you can raise supply temperature into the ASHRAE allowable band and let the cooling plant coast.

Less cooling-fan energy

Supply temp raised, ASHRAE A1 allowable

PUE improvement, typical

Per-rack density, no hot spots

Typical energy-payback window

Pillar 3 / over both

Every rack and aisle, on one screen.

A touchscreen HMI and DCIM telemetry read power, temperature, and environment in real time across smart racks and contained aisles, with threshold alerting before a hot spot ever forms.

GSPE DCIM dashboard: container vital signs, critical systems status, hottest rack exhaust and highest PDU load, monitored live

Touchscreen HMI at the rack and the aisle, no laptop required for a floor walk
Real-time DCIM for power, temperature, humidity, door, and leak across the estate
Threshold alerting that flags a drift toward a hot spot before it becomes one
One pane spanning edge smart racks and hall-scale contained aisles alike

GSPE DCIM dashboard. Live metrics, ranges, and alert thresholds are configured to your facility during commissioning.

Scalable IT infrastructure

Start at the edge. Scale to the hall.

The same line covers a single edge cabinet, a contained row, and a modular facility, so the architecture grows with the load instead of being torn out and replaced.

All-in-One Smart Rack Edge

A complete, self-contained edge data center: integrated UPS, precision cooling, intelligent monitoring, access control, and predictive environmental alerting in one cabinet.

Thermal Containment Hall

Aisle containment physically separates cold supply from hot exhaust, eliminating bypass airflow and lowering both PUE and mechanical cooling OPEX as the room fills.

Modular Edge Facilities Site

Deploy a complete, self-sufficient IT environment anywhere, with integrated cooling, power, and security for edge computing or rapid site scaling.

Materials and fire compliance

Sealed for airflow. Cleared for fire.

Containment must never compromise life safety. Panels seal tight in normal operation and open fully when the fire system calls for it.

Structure and glazing

Aluminium frame system

Extruded aluminium structure, corrosion-free, light, and re-configurable as the row layout changes.

Polycarbonate roof glazing UL94 V-0 / V-2

Impact-resistant clear polycarbonate keeps light and sightlines through the hall, with a UL94 flame-retardant rating.

Fire and detection

Fusible-link drop-away panels NFPA 75

Heat-triggered links release roof panels by gravity, so containment cannot obstruct sprinkler or gas suppression.

Aspirating-detection compatible Local fire code

Panel layout keeps VESDA sampling and sprinkler coverage effective inside the contained volume.

Live DCIM

Made to measure. Installed live.

Every smart rack and contained aisle reports to one dashboard, made to measure for your facility and live from commissioning. Power, thermal, environment, and access on a single pane, installed around a running hall with no shutdown.