The Challenge
Data center cooling systems are larger and more complex than ever. Managing all the components and variables using a standard Building Management System (BMS) is no longer viable in an industry that demands resilience and redundancy at the lowest possible energy input.
One core issue is that a BMS, whilst still needed for overall monitoring and reporting, is not designed for precise control of complex systems. A BMS mostly pushes data, and isn’t capable of addressing the anomalies that it identifies. It can’t make the necessary changes to optimize the system.
With a BMS, redundancy is not built in. As cooling plant gets larger and more numerous, this is key to ensuring that cooling requirements are met, and the load is evenly balanced across the system.
Cooling System Optimizer™ has been developed by Airedale by Modine to answer this challenge…
How it Works
Airedale’s Cooling System Optimizer™ has been developed to control and optimize data center cooling systems and is built on our 50 years of experience in providing IT thermal management solutions.
Cooling System Optimizer is an additional controls layer, between the product controls (in chillers and indoor cooling units like CRAHs and fan walls), and the site BMS.
Cooling System Optimizer is a failover master distributed control system, with an Optimizer Controller on each unit offering multiple levels of resilience to failure. With no single point of failure, your facility is in the safe hands of cooling experts.
It is based on PLC-based deterministic controllers – the same hardware that resides in the cooling products. By monitoring the cooling system as a whole, while also being connected to individual product controllers, Cooling System Optimizer can precisely modulate the flow rates through chillers and CRAHs on a unit controls level, to precisely match cooling supply to demand.
Cooling System Optimizer is part of IQity™ Airedale’s IoT-enabled technology framework. Revolutionizing how cooling is connected, controlled and automated at critical facilities.
KEY BENEFITS
Up to 45% Energy Savings
Lower Maintenance Costs
Maximum Operating Efficiency
modulated.
Full Redundancy
Standardized Solution
Free Cooling
Future Proof
OPTIMIZE UNITS, OR THE FULL SYSTEM
CHILLERS
Chillers have strict requirements for minimum flow to be guaranteed for correct operation when refrigerant-based cooling is active. Cooling System Optimizer, with its fully integrated control strategy, enables chillers to operate on a reduced water flow rate during free cooling operation, sensibly increasing the efficiency of water coils and pumps.
CRAHS
Cooling system Optimizer’s networking strategy distributes the cooling demand to all of the operating CRAHs to achieve the best energy efficiency, automatically enabling units if required and thermally shifting the load to avoid hotspots, while reducing the energy consumption in the unused areas of the data halls.
FULL SYSTEM
Modern data centers require a controls platform that prioritises SLAs at chip / server inlet level, while minimizing energy input. Managing all the components and variables using a standard events-driven BMS is no longer viable. Cooling System Optimizer works best with variable flow systems and fluctuating loads, allowing cooling systems to respond dynamically and as one.
TROUBLESHOOTS MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN A BMS
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