SynapSense Active Control™

SynapSense Active Control™ provides immediate energy savings and increased efficiency by continuously aligning cooling capacity with changes in IT load. SynapSense leverages a granular deployment of leading edge wireless sensors used to measure server inlet temperature and subfloor pressure differential to dynamically manage CRAH temperature set points and variable fan speeds. This unique approach to control optimizes cooling capacity and saves up to 50% of cooling costs.

ROI – Save up to 50% of cooling energy

Reliability – Fine grain sensing of both temperature and pressure guarantees control accuracy

Responsive – Dynamically controls CRAH set points and fan speeds

Scalability – Designed to operate in 5K to >100K sq ft; Leverages scale afforded by SynapSense Environmental Monitoring and Data Center Optimization Platform 

Ease of Use – Enables user-initiated or system-initiated transitions from Automatic to Manual Mode

SynapSense Data Center Assessment and Optimization Services compliment our Active Control Solution by baselining the data center cooling capacity and optimizing airflow prior to implementing Active Control. This serves to increase reliability, availability and capacity. With SynapSense Active Control, data center operators can fully automate cooling of their data centers which results in immediate energy savings and increased efficiency. Active Control allows data center operators to add IT load, while avoiding the capital cost associated with incremental cooling capacity.

The Active Control three-step process includes:

1. Baseline the Data Center, including environmental conditions, total IT load, cooling capacity and cooling efficiency.

Baseline Temperature and Pressure

2. Optimize Airflow Management.  Using industry best practices, SynapSense provides a data driven optimization analysis and set of recommendations, detailing potential optimization opportunities, with corresponding cost, expected energy savings and overall return on investment (including payback period). Optimization includes, rebalancing the raised floor, air-mixing mitigation, and matching cooling capacity to IT load.

Improve Airflow Management

3. Active Control optimizes cooling capacity and saves up to 50% of cooling costs by minimizing the fan energy to meet server CFM requirements, while maintaining acceptable server inlet temperatures in the ASHRAE range.

Active Control

SynapSense Data Center Active Control Video

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 Raised Floor Tune-Up, How to Get the Most from Your Infrastructure - Download

Presented By: Julian Rachman, PE, LEED AP, DFW Consulting Group, Inc.
Ray Pfeifer Sr. Vice President, Business Development, SynapSense
This case study takes place in a 65,000 square foot data center in Texas wherein SynapSense teams with DFW consulting to deploy over 7000 sensors and employs SynapSense Active Control™ to save 1.8MW of energy.

 

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