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With the advent of microgrid technology in mission critical markets, electrical power system modeling, analysis, and simulation have become even more vital in design and operation of data centers. Hence, making the proper design decisions early on during the system planning stages are now paramount to support the energy efficiency strategies to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve the reliability of engineering and facility operations.
Today, the owner-operator of modern data centers is expecting a Smart Data Center Solution where the facility is designed, analyzed, validated, and then taken on-line to provide a system with increased efficiency and life cycle management; from design to deployment to real-time operation and back to capacity planning.
A model-driven approach codifies the design team’s intent to ensure that facilities operate precisely as they were intended to, or better:
Utilizing the model-driven design approach helps determine the electrical behavior through creating various scenarios which allows the engineer to predict future behavior, analyze expansion projects, or identify improvement opportunities of the power system. Creating an electrical model of the data center offers a centralized location for a system knowledge base and electrical network assets. The model includes parameters of the electrical components and how these components are inter-connected to form the complete power system layout. Using pre-built data center one-line diagram templates based on the commonly used ‘Tiered’ concept for data center design allows for streamlining the modeling and design process and save time during the process. These pre-built templates contain typical electrical data information which can be easily and quickly adjusted to customize the design to meet the specifications of the facility.
The “perfect system” starts during the design phase.
Utilizing the system model along with real-time data integration with metering devices, data acquisition, and archiving systems, the data center operator can then accurately monitor, visualize, predict, and operate the facility. Monitoring energy usage provides up-to-date data on power consumption, carbon emissions, and temperature and humidity settings. This information is essential to the operator to identify opportunities for quick reduction in power consumption, energy-saving initiatives, and ultimately reduce OPEX costs. In addition, the indication of abnormal conditions is an important function of a monitoring system. Alarm and warning schemes provide immediate signals for abnormal parameters, including areas in the mission critical facilities that are not directly metered. Dedicated data center interfaces, thin-client dashboards and web-enabled reports provide operational efficiency and effectiveness of new energy saving projects.
Intelligent monitoring is the base of a data center system. Besides improving data gathering capability and real-time prediction of system response, the model-driven data center solution is used for reducing losses and determining where energy supply and demand can be optimized. The monitored data and collected information are used to provide supplemental automation via user-defined actions that can be added or superimposed on the existing system.
Features of supplemental automation must contain the following controls:
Adopting a smart data center solution takes the guesswork out of design and vastly improve operations.
A Smart Data Center Solution can be used from the design stage to optimize power usage, increase energy savings and reduce the TCO while maintaining high availability, reliability and security during the facility's operation.
Extending the power monitoring system by equipping it with an appropriate electrical system model (context and knowledge), simulation, predictive analysis, playback applications, and load preservation system will provide the data center designer, engineer, owner-operator with a powerful set of intelligent tools and enterprise solutions.
Finally, all of these capabilities and applications should be included in one integrated platform with the flexibility and compatibility that allows you to expand and upgrade your data center design and power management system as your needs grow.
ETAP is utilized in mission critical facilities as an integrated electrical power system design and power management system.
Fully integrated suite of software products that provides mission critical power management solutions.