Airedale is pleased to announce the launch of their new IoT-enabled software framework, IQity, which provides a blueprint for intelligent data center cooling at a product, system, and site level, and safeguards uptime and sustainability.
IQity serves as a digital framework, transforming individual plant items like chillers and precision coolers into intelligent systems. These systems flex with their environment and work as one to ensure critical cooling that delivers high availability at the lowest cost. IQity also contains powerful site optimization tools, that break the boundaries of what traditional cooling companies offer and give holistic insights to whole facilities and entire fleets.
Intelligent unit controls
Critical systems like cooling are extremely complex. Software has long been mooted as a way to improve business operations, but field experience is crucial. Airedale are data center experts with 45 years of IT cooling experience. IQity is the culmination of this experience, a software framework, and toolkit developed specifically for this most demanding of industries, tested and validated in the field, and developed with efficiency and uptime as its core deliverables.
IQity takes Airedale’s Helix intelligent unit controls, the ACISTM BMS (Building Management System), and all the site-specific system integration work over decades of installing, commissioning, and optimizing critical systems in data centers. IQity brings all of this together, and offers it to clients as a digital toolbox, bringing all its culminated experience and development to data center clients.
Monitoring operational patterns
Systems are automatically restored quickly and safely following power interruptions
IQity manages normal operations all the time, but when things go wrong it steps in, automatically restoring critical cooling to servers and running unique cause diagnostics to give peace of mind to operators.
With the ability to monitor operational patterns at pace and to a level of detail beyond the human eye, tools within the framework can identify the source of likely breakdowns before they occur. Systems are automatically restored quickly and safely following power interruptions and the root cause of failure events is analyzed with an accurate sequence of event mapping, within milliseconds…making facilities more resilient, efficient, and sustainable on a 24/7 basis.
Robust security protocols
IQity has been developed with a ‘defense-in depth’ mindset when it comes to cybersecurity, recognizing that data centers are critical pieces of national infrastructure. All products, systems, and software platforms are protected by robust security protocols and trusted by many data center operators already.
Reece Thomas, Control Product Manager at Airedale said, “At Airedale, our software and hardware divisions exist under one roof, so we talk to each other and ensure our products do too. We feel that because we are so aligned and because we develop applications on-site rather than in isolated labs, we do this sort of thing better than anyone else. Being completely connected, from a product, site, and system level, means we can offer added value to our clients, and more assured return on investment.”