California-based wireless connectivity systems provider Airgain has announced a new data center design win for its NimbeLink® embedded cellular modems in addition to a previous design win for an electrical intelligence provider serving AI-scale infrastructure across major data center environments.

Together, the design wins expand the company’s opportunity in infrastructure supporting AI and high-performance computing. Both were built to address electrical energy monitoring and intelligent rack-level power distribution–two areas becoming increasingly important as data centers require greater power density, reliability and remote management.

Customers selected Airgain’s NimbeLink Cat 1 bis embedded modem for its energy monitoring platform, the company said. The platform uses sensing and analytics to give operators greater visibility into power consumption and equipment health. The goal is to help improve energy efficiency, support preventive maintenance and reduce unplanned downtime.

The new design win is with an established intelligent power management provider with more than 20 years of industry experience and over 250,000 PDUs deployed, according to Airgain. The unnamed customer has integrated Airgain’s NimbeLink Cat M1 embedded modem into its smart power distribution unit (PDU) platform. Smart PDUs provide rack-level power distribution, monitoring and remote control for servers and networking equipment. The customer sees data centers, including AI and other high-density computing environments as a growth market for its intelligent PDU products, Airgain said.

When a facility’s primary wired or Wi-Fi network is unavailable, cellular connectivity gives operators an independent path for remote monitoring and out-of-band management. This can help data center operators maintain access to power and monitoring systems for remote diagnostics, equipment management and recovery.

“AI data centers require much more than servers and GPUs to operate at scale and maintain uptime,” said Jacob Suen, president and CEO of Airgain. “They also depend on reliable power, cooling and monitoring systems to keep that compute capacity running. These two design wins show how our Airgain IoT offerings can provide reliable connectivity across various parts of the data center and expand Airgain’s opportunity as investment in AI infrastructure continues to grow.”

Airgain’s NimbeLink embedded modems combine compact cellular connectivity with pre-certified designs, and aim to help IoT developers reduce wireless integration complexity and accelerate deployment of connected products.