ETAP Intelligent Data Center & Mission Critical Facility Solution
Intelligent Mission-critical Facility Management Begins with Digital Transformation
Datacenter
design and operations must allow for safety, reliability, efficiency, compliance, and sustainability throughout the life-cycle from design, commissioning to operations. Strengthen your organization with ETAP digital transformation solutions
which increase design efficiency and provide deep operational insight for decision-makers, converting your data center power infrastructure from traditional to cutting-edge.
ETAP Solutions Serve the Entire Data Center Industry
ETAP is utilized in mission critical facilities as an integrated electrical power system design and digital twin driven electrical control & power management system (EPMS) from design to operations.
- Cloud Data Centers
- Network Operations
- Enterprise Managed Services
- Telecom Centers
- Co-Locations
Accelerating Energy Transformation from Design to Operate on a Unified Electrical Digital Twin
Multi-Platform & Non-Unified Lifecycle leads to negative impact in terms of errors & omissions, rework, lost time, and increased costs from design to commissioning and operations.
ETAP Multi-Dimensional Foundation unifies design engineering and real-time applications enabling digitization of power systems at every stage of the electrical installation life cycle, from design and build to commission, operate, and maintain. ETAP enables efficient design, analysis, management, operations, and a complete digital transformation of projects, while adapting to evolving system changes, accelerating productivity, and increasing efficiency while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
Challenges, Trends & Solution
An innovative design alone does not ensure a well-built data center that will remain efficient and reliable throughout its life cycle. For each phase, proper care and action are required to meet the mission-critical facility's business needs continuously.
Faster Planning & Modeling
Accurate Design & Analyses
Confident Build & Commissioning
Intelligent Management & Operations
Connected Assessment & Maintainenace
Informed Transformation & Growth
Adapt Renewables & Decarbonize
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Faster Planning & Modeling for Data Center
Strong incentives exist to faster plan, build, and commission data centers. However, the common reality of tighter budgets, understaffing, uncertain and dynamic IT load, and an obsessive need for high availability makes it difficult to do this optimally. Planning mistakes & sequential tasks can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system.
Challenges
- Create and reuse reference designs and scale them quickly.
- Leverage electrical system design data from pre-bid and ongoing construction data to ensure "as intended" and "as constructed" changes are synchronized.
- Make sure to leverage data center expertise within an organization and collaborate with the entire team on the same electrical model.
- Ensure to include multiple disciplines, including electrical, thermal, mechanical, and electromagnetic, in the same software and foster data unification?
Solutions
Design a Data Center with ETAP that is fast to build and deploy
Efficient & Predictable Design
Templates allow for the utilization of reference, making designs data center design more efficient and predictable.
Connectivity Check with company-wide Rules & Auto-layout saves time & eliminates the guesswork.
BIM Interface
ETAP-Revit bi-directional data exchange simplifies the electrical design process by utilizing the Autodesk Revit® model.
eXCAD™ Interface simplifies the way you design and analyze electrical systems by utilizing the blocks and attributes included in the AutoCAD® drawing.
Data Collection & Collaboration
Simplify data collection with etapAPP™
Network Project Management (NetPM™) provides a platform for collaborative engineering, using intelligent tools to shorten power system modeling and studies from months to mere weeks.
Connecting the ETAP Electrical Digital Twin platform to a larger ecosystem of complementary and collaborative solutions, we can enable a transformative role for customers to design, operate, and connect on a multi-disciplinary scale.
Accurate Design & Analyses for Data Center
Asset criticality, capacity, and growth plan must be considered when designing a data center. Multiple operating conditions have to be created, analyzed, stored and recalled for optimizing equipment dimensioning and evaluating network resiliency and safety, based on country-specific codes & standards.
Challenges
- Maximize critical power distribution utilization without overloading the circuits or jeopardizing the intended redundancy design?
- Verify that breaker trip settings are correct and adequately coordinated as per the power system design and avoid a cascading failure.
- Protect operational staff from injury by determining the proper PPE level and identifying gaps in the protection systems.
- Calculate & verify the system uptime.
- Protect equipment from overvoltage and overheating due to harmonics generated from UPS, SMPS, ASD, etc.?
Solutions
Analyze a Data Center with ETAP accurately leveraging a full-fidelity model
Sizing & Dimensioning
Dimensioning of equipment & cables using multiple codes and standards, including voltage drop, fault current, harmonics, motor starting, and other operating conditions.
Integrate Cable Thermal, Cable Pulling & Cable EMC in the same electrical system model eliminating the need to maintain multiple software and data models.
Simulation Result Analyzers
Unified with Multi-Dimensional Database enabling user-friendly visualization and management of design, and revisions or changes.
Multi-Result Analyzers, Plot analyzers, Data Managers & Protective Device Settings Reports allow comparing "As designed" and "As revised conditions."
Redundancy & Availability
Analyze parallel UPS configs with Load Flow & Short Circuit, Protection & Selectivity, & Arc Flash.
Ensure Power Quality & Harmonic compatibility and selection with correct harmonic mitigation techniques & harmonic filter sizing.
Use Contingency Analysis and Reliability Assessment to determine redundancy performance, for MTBF, MTTR & COI.
Confident Build & Commissioning for Data Center
No matter how experienced an operator or a commissioning engineer is, a new site or design can constantly challenge them with abnormal situations not considered during the electrical power system design & analysis. Changes in and commissioning sequence can get them into a position where it becomes imperative to validate an action before commissioning or operating the system.
Challenges
- Ensure that new changes do not introduce unwanted behavior.
- Simulate procedures, outage scenarios & test adequacy of remedial actions before establishing procedures for operators?
- Reuse data captured during the actual data center commissioning process.
- Train operators to execute the impact of pre-defined & ad-hoc switching plans to successfully exit emergency or unforeseen operating conditions?
Solutions
Commission & Handover a Data Center with ETAP Risk Aware Validation & OTS
Software-in-the-Loop
Test Network Operations Center start-up and emergency procedures with or without eSCADA connection using ETAP Software-in-the-Loop Dynamic Simulation.
Operator Training Simulator
eOTS promotes continuous operator training enabling them to leverage engineering tools, gain insight into the performance signature of the data center as it transitions to full-scale operations, and validate new control strategies.
Protection & Asset Management
eProtect centralized protection and asset management system ensures protective device settings are transcribed to the field devices correctly and made available to all resources responsible for the safe & successful commissioning of the data center.
Intelligent Management & Operations for Data Center
The number one cause of data center failure is human error. With so much at stake for Data Center owners/operators and their tenants, making the right decisions quickly and confidently is imperative.
36%
data center outages are power-related
$5.6K/min
avg. outage costs resulting in $140K to $540K / hour loss
31%
experienced a downtime incident over a 12 month period
48%
reported at least one outage over a 3 year period
* based on 2018 Survey by Uptime Institute
Challenges
- Validate the design model and ensure the 'digital design twin' transforms into the 'digital operations twin' for current and future decision-making.
- Bring risk awareness into my operations and prevent erroneous actions that may cause a cascading trip or increase demand-cost?
- Quickly analyze an unforeseen event and understand whether the operator or the automatic system protection responded as intended.
- Determine the loading requirements for non-metered devices and manage the demand at each Power Distribution Unit (PDU?)
Solutions
Bring Situational Awareness to the Data Center with ETAP Predictive Analysis
Intelligent & Reliable Power Management
ETAP eSCADA & ETAP PSMS transforms a Data Center EMCS into an intelligent and reliable power management solution for operators, dispatchers, engineers, and decision-makers with crucial metrics including DCIE, PUE, etc.
Continuously leverage existing measurements and extrapolate pseudo-measurements to gain complete system visibility using ETAP State & Load Estimation.
"What if"
Predictive Analysis
Engineers & operators can run any "What if" scenario using ETAP Predictive Analysis based on real-time operating conditions, be notified of the risk, and enhance their decision-making.
Utilize Automated Fault Analysis System for faster analysis response to interruption incidents, enabling you to identify the fault type and its location and compare the sequence of operation with the "as designed" system.
Event Playback
Effective post-mortem & Event Playback capabilities allow you to replay the events, understand system & operator actions, and explore alternative measures.
Connected Assessment & Maintenance for Data Center
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—or in this case, millions of dollars. Apart from the immediate financial costs, the impact of reduced productivity, lost opportunities, brand damage, and potential data loss can impose lasting trickle-down effects that may affect a business for years to come. Data centers can leverage their digital twin model to identify and avert potential failure points, saving both themselves and their customers time and money.
Challenges
- Prevent unexpected failures in underground cables, etc.
- Anticipate failures, predict the remaining lifetime, and accurately schedule preventive maintenance to prolong hardware life.
- Identify cascading impacts of an impending failure.
- Ensure that I am meeting grid compliance in terms of power quality.
- Lower energy bills, avoid penalties, and continually harvest power savings.
Solutions
Bring Situational Intelligence to the Data Center with ETAP eSI
Situational Intelligence
Situational Intelligence (eSI) allows for continuous assessment of various contingencies in the network, providing insight into the redundancy & reliability status of the system in real-time.
Harmonic Power Quality
Monitor harmonic power quality, draw baseline from 'as designed' vs. 'as expected' vs. 'as operating,' and evaluate harmonic mitigation performance using ETAP PQMS.
Real-Time Reliability Assessment
ETAP Real-Time Reliability Assessment helps analyze alarms and root causes and take meaningful actions based on a probabilistic failure model.
Informed Transformation & Growth for Data Center
Typical data centers are designed with a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years. However, most IT equipment refresh cycles are 2 to 5 years. Datacenter operators need to scale critical infrastructure (power and cooling) and space to accommodate explosive growth in computing power and storage. Critical power needs to be deployed modularly within an operating data center while it remains fully operational and reliable.
Challenges
- Utilize real-time data to analyze the impact of load growth & system changes
- Select & test between various equipment
- Identify cascading impacts of an impending failure
- Maximize my current facilities to meet demands?
Solutions
Leverage ETAP Digital Twin for Design & Operations
Model Validation
ETAP Electrical Digital Twin may be expanded while you continue to operate the electrical network and test the impact of changing single or multiple pieces of equipment.
System Visibility
Utilize ETAP Revisions combined with Real-Time or Archived Data to rerun the original set of scenarios or add new scenarios to the existing list to evaluate and assess during design & operations.
Energy Efficiency
Compare as-configured maximum potential demand vs. current actual demand, as configured potential supply and actual current supply including Energy Demand, using Energy Accounting for Energy Demand & Tenant Billing.
Directly use real-time data to evaluate the impact of adding servers on various PDUs while factoring multiple system-level capacities - active, idle, stranded, spare, and safety margins (off-limits).
Adapt Renewables & Decarbonize for Data Center
Sustainability is becoming a vital issue for data center operators. Investors, customers, and legislators are increasingly demanding carbon emissions reporting and 100% renewable energy use. Purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) or Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) is a reasonable first step in a sustainability strategy towards Carbon Neutral, yet is insufficient on its own. While a virtual PPA may make a new renewable farm possible, if the farm and the data center operations are not on the same grid, it does not address carbon emissions from those operations. Data centers must move to Net Zero and deploy renewable sources of energy on the local grid, so that the data center will consume renewables at all times.
Challenges
- Design & operate my data center to be Net Zero with local renewables
- Participate in energy arbitrage leveraging energy storage & onsite generation?
- Correctly understand the combined impact of mixed unbalanced AC & DC systems and renewable energy assets on a time-domain basis.
- Simulate and manage microgrid controls from design into operations and derisk the project.
Solutions
Leverage ETAP Renewable Energy Modeling & Microgrid Control from Design to Operation
Net Zero
Leverage renewable energy modeling including; solar, wind, energy storage & var control devices from design to operations using ETAP Time Domain Unified AC & DC Power Flow.
Sustainability
ETAP Microgrid Control offers an integrated model-driven solution to design, simulate, optimize, test, and control microgrids with the inherent capability to fine-tune operations logic, during the design phase for maximum system resiliency and energy efficiency.
Energy Arbitrage
Leverage ETAP Load and Generation Forecasting to predict data center load demand and generation availability to participate in energy arbitrage.
ETAP Solution Summary
ETAP provides a comprehensive digital twin based solution from Design to Operations. ETAP integrated single platform solution allows for a data center facility power system within the safety and regulatory compliances. Further, it leverages the design knowledge with operations data to drive continuous risk assessment, situational intelligence, and remedial actions.
Planning & Design
Network Analysis
Network Analysis includes modules such as Short Circuit, Load Flow, Arc Flash, Motor Starting and more.
Data Exchange
Data exchange interfaces and power system model conversion tools to import and export via different formats.
ArcSafety™ - Arc Flash
Arc Flash software identifies and analyzes high risk arc flash areas in AC systems.
DC Arc Flash
DC Arc Flash module calculates the incident energy for direct current networks.
NetPM™ - Network Project Management
Save hundreds of work-hours by this efficient new multi-user platform for project execution and management.
Operations & Maintenance
eSCADA
Distribute SCADA technologies with intuitive real-time visualization and analyses platform - eSCADA™
PSMS - Power System Monitoring & Simulation
Power monitoring system and analytical tools to predict system response.
Microgrid - Microgrid Controller & Energy Management
Integrated software solution to monitor, predict and manage diverse power sources and multiple operating conditions.
ILS - Intelligent Load Shedding
ETAP iLS dynamically and instantaneously determines the best load shedding priority.
eProtect
Communicates with relays and ETAP Protection & Coordination modules to manage location, information & settings over the entire relays & electrical assets' lifecycle.
eOTS
This cloud-based application communicates with relays and ETAP Protection & Coordination modules to manage settings over the entire relays & electrical assets lifecycle.
Featured Webinars
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AC Arc Flash Analysis for a Datacenter Network in Italy to determine the PPE for Workers using ETAP
17:04
Arc Flash Analysis was performed on a new datacenter building in Italy, calculating Incident Energy and Arc Flash Boundaries at several locations, from the main 15kV distribution switch gears down to the main LV distribution switchboard and diversionary panel boards in each segment. The studies were performed using ETAP Arc Flash software to identify the correct personal protection equipment (PPE) for engineering staff during maintenances operations. Standards applied include: NFPA 70E-2021, IEEE 1584-2018, IEC 60909 (2016).
GreeNext to Provide Sustainable and Resilient Energy-as-a-Service, in Collaboration with ETAP
19:50
Powering IT/OT Convergence for DC Management in Data Centers with ETAP
21:26
Analysis of power distribution network in Mission critical areas – Airports & Datacenters
11:00
ETAP Power System Software, with its various analysis modules is used to validate the design of Larsen & Toubro Construction – Buildings and Factories projects in airports, data centers, hospitals, office buildings etc. Network Analysis, such as Load Flow and Short Circuit Calculations, ensure load shedding and voltage drop within permissible limits, Transformer Sizing Analysis is utilized to meet standard requirements. Cable Sizing and Cable Pulling Modules, along with UG Thermal Analysis modules, validate cable routing at various underground locations. These tools allow for easy planning and approval at the initial project stage. On Safety and Protection – STAR curves help to find the correct protection and selectivity for prestigious projects with critical operations such as airports, data centers, office buildings and hospitals, to ensure smooth power flow without interruptions. Arc Flash Modules help us to quickly create & define Arc Flash Labels, as well as PPE requirements. Ground Grid Analysis is used for effective and economical earth mat design and sizing. Reliability Assessments are part of the design process to ensure the AIDI and CAIDI reliability metrics. Harmonic Analysis, for the sizing of active and passive filters allows for fine-tuning of filter design at the right locations.
ETAP Digital Twin Solution for Data Centers
1:13:51
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Critical Power Solutions for Data Centers
20:45
eSCADA implementation at Data Center Facility
25:25
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