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Data Center Facility Study

2Mapping

3Purposes

IT/ telecom company centers

Storage service providers

Industry/ commercial in house

4Priorities

•Degrees of downtime•Center tiers

Business Continuity

•Power Use Effectiveness•Total consumption

Energy Efficiency

•Physical•CyberSecurity

5Data

Climatic•Temperature

•Humidity

•Pressure

Electric•Power

•Current

•Power Factor…

IT•Data Speed

•Storage

6Equipment Data

Servers

• Electric Data through Power Distribution Unit (PDU)

• Climatic data through sensor at rack/server intake (and exhaust)

HVAC / Climate Control

• Electric data metering

• Temperature, humidity and possibly pressure

7Power equipment

• Input and output voltage and current, losses• Power• Harmonics

UPS

• Power (charging and discharging)• Energy storedBattery

• Generation – power and quality• UsageDG

• Power input/ output, Losses• Grid power qualityTransformer

8Metering Overview: Power

• Servers

• Power Equipment monitoring

• Load monitoring: IT and HVAC (+lighting)

• Network monitoring (harmonics: active filters, ballasts)

9Metering Overview: Climate

10Process

Understanding:

- Smart Sense- Data

Centers

Referring to Foundry Case Study

Identifying Value of

Ecolibrium

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Proposition

12Main Points

• Active PUE Monitoring and Optimization

• Asset Health Monitoring

• Reducing Redundancy through Asset Optimization

• Power Source Optimization

• Predictive Maintenance

• Modularity Integration and Scalability

13Operational Efficiency

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• Climate Monitoring and Asset Optimization

• Thermal zone mapping (and fluid flow analysis) for optimal equipment placement

• Minimizing losses

• Server performance monitoring

14Asset Health and Predictive Maintenance

• HVAC health through motor, chiller and other asset analysis

• Battery health

• Transformer health

• UPS Health

• Active monitoring provides insight for when tests are needed

15Redundancy

Reducing CapEx by optimizing assets

and assuring reliability

- Lower value of assets and

predictive because of redundancy- Certification

requiring redundancy

16Power Sourcing and Billing Insights

• Power source optimization including DERs

• Contract demand optimization

• Energy Trading from Open Access Feasibility and Bid optimization

• TOD optimization

• Incoming Voltage check

• Power factor optimization

17Modularity Integration and Scalability

• Modular integration allows scalability of Ecolibrium in given data center

• Challenge is: They are very advanced and one product so difficult to integrates

18Data Center Infrastructure Management

• Several discussed features exist

• Analytics is doubtful

• Use, especially in India is sparse (instead use SCADA/ BMS)

• IT Data centers vs facility supporting data centers

19Data Center Certification

TIA 942

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21Infibeam Meeting

• Meeting with a very experienced person in the industry, in charge of designing Infibeam’s next data center at GIFT city

His opinion:

• What we are proposing already exists (including analytics) and done by big companies

• Can’t reduce redundancy because it is needed for certification

• Look at data centers of people who’s core business isn’t data centers (industry, hospital, etc.)

• Modular data centers have company integrted monitoring

• Infibeam (first in India) getting Lithium Ion batteries instead of VRLA

22GIFT city visit

• Supposedly very advanced for India, “only Tier 4 data center in India”

• Manual readings (LT, HT, etc.) – Schneider equipment with integrated panels

• Redundancy in everything – needed for certification

• BMS used for monitoring – extremely limited

23Creating a world where every watt counts!