How much additional capacity, budget and environmental benefit can be unlocked from your data centre?
Each data centre has operational challenges that are time-consuming and critical to supporting your business. So why bother investigating your cooling and airflow? Simple. From a senior leadership perspective, things like achieving carbon emission targets, decreasing operational spending, and increasing capacity can help the business as a whole. By bringing these efficiencies to their attention it shows that you’re not just maintaining the status quo but being strategic in the projects you invest in.
Our data centre cooling optimization program is a turn-key solution that provides the insight and transparency you need to make smart business decisions. Senior management will applaud the results of this program aimed at decreasing your energy costs significantly.
Right-size your data center cooling capacity and improve airflow management to reduce energy costs by 20-35%.
This represents not only significant cost savings, but substantial improvements to the thermal conditions of IT equipment. COP addresses cooling issues in data centres. Optimizing air flow is the fundamental first step in improving cooling efficiency and effectiveness, helping to reduce cooling energy costs and enabling you to maximize the existing cooling capacity.
Get there in 3 steps.
Using the extensive data collected during the on-site visit, we create metrics for comparison of your sites’ operation to industry best practices and guidelines. Based on these metrics and SCTi’s extensive experience we’re able to recommend a fully customized solution to ensure you achieve the highest level of efficiency – and therefore the greatest energy reduction resulting most money saved.
- Site visit and data collection
- Evaluation of data center’s cooling systems, IT load, airflow and thermal environment
- Characterize data center by generating key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics compared against best practices
- Identify and recommend solutions to address root causes of cooling deficiencies
- Recommend energy savings opportunities
- SCTi Audit and Recommendation report will provide a detailed baseline of the site to be used for future planning
Once you’ve reviewed the audit of your data centre’s cooling, SCTi can implement the recommendations if you don’t have the manpower and expertise available in-house. We stand behind our work and provide a one-year warranty when we implement our recommendations in your audit. A typical implementation involves acquiring the right materials and products to resolve issues, project managing contractors (either those designated by client or SCTi selected contractors), establishing baseline energy levels and post project energy levels to identify the energy reductions, and a comprehensive close out process to ensure all operations are in line with client expectations.
- Identify airflow issues and hot spots
- Model site airflow to quantify cooling efficiency
- Aide with future planning by modelling future options to assess impact of airflow changes such as aisle containment, installation/removal of cooling units, arrangement of perforated tiles and ceiling grills or installation of a drop ceiling
- 3D, digital site layout including temperature mapping, airflow distribution and velocity profiles
- Recommended energy conservation measures (ECMs) based on client’s goals, requirements and budget
- Projected energy savings
- Projected energy incentives (if applicable)
- Turn-key solutions delivery
- SCTi Energy Conservation Measures
- Site performance analytics
Post-implementation we recommend monitoring your data centre to ensure that the work done is maintained long-term. This is where our monitoring hardware and software solution can alert you to future issues that could comprise your capacity limitations, increase your cooling cost and carbon emissions.
If you didn’t do an audit or implementation with us you can use our monitoring system to identify inefficient cooling systems, configurations, or operational practices to pinpoint the cause of cooling issues.
- Maintaining site optimization levels
- Providing support for future changes and plans
