White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO)

White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) is powered by Vigilent

Vigilent applies AI to optimize the indoor environment, energy and carbon emissions of buildings. The company has over 1000 deployments in 27 countries. Vigilent technology is at the core of Siemens’ White Space Cooling Optimization (WSCO) offer that dynamically optimizes cooling in mission critical buildings such as data centers and telecom exchanges. WSCO is used in new and existing facilities to meet environmental SLAs, reduce energy/carbon, increase staff effectiveness, lower capital costs, inform maintenance, and maximize the IT applications that can run in any mission critical facility. Contact Siemens Xcelerator Partner

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Why Why use White Space Cooling Optimization for data centers??

... autonomously optimize cooling operations, achieving precise temperature compliance while mitigating risks like thermal outages. The system not only improves operations but also drives significant energy savings, supporting environmental sustainability and operational excellence for modern data centers.
While the WSCO AI optimizes cooling, its programmable monitoring and analytics platform uncovers data-driven insights that improve facility performance and boost profitability across your entire portfolio. It ensures flexible digital integration for comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, making it an innovative solution for modern data center operations. Additionally, multi-site analytics and reporting provide actionable insights, empowering you to make informed decisions that enhance operational efficiency. WSCO also supports liquid cooling implementations in new and legacy facilities where AI and other high-performance compute applications are driving up IT load. With the newly implemented air-cooled chiller plant monitoring and control, WSCO ensures optimized performance across the entire cooling infrastructure.

Benefits

WSCO’s AI-powered cooling optimization and data-driven analytics platform work together to deliver remarkable improvements across mission-critical facilities. By leveraging its broad infrastructure interoperability, WSCO drives significant enhancements in value, efficiency, and sustainability across enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, and hyperscale operations.
Economic value: Achieve service-level agreements (SLAs) with precision while unlocking additional cooling capacity through optimized cooling systems for data centers. Lower energy costs and reduce operational expenses, leading to increased financial returns and long-term savings.
Operational excellence: Enhance thermal compliance by maintaining optimal operating conditions for critical infrastructure. WSCO's cutting-edge cooling system for data centers extends the lifespan of sensitive equipment, reducing the frequency and cost of repairs and maintenance.
Sustainability: Significantly reduce energy consumption, cut carbon emissions, and minimize water usage by integrating WSCO’s AI-powered cooling technologies. Align with green initiatives and environmental goals, establishing your facility as a leader in sustainable operations within the data center industry.

Featured Capabilities

Autonomous Cooling Control for maximum efficiency

Using predictive AI, WSCO ensures 24/7 optimization of your facility’s cooling infrastructure. By dynamically matching cooling expenditure to IT load in real-time, the innovative solution for data centers maintains near-perfect temperature compliance across the white floor.

Smarter cooling decisions with machine learning

WSCO’s thermal Influence Map® leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to model and predict thermal behavior inside your facility. This intelligent empirical model guides cooling adjustments for maximum performance. With the Influence Map®, users can easily visualize thermal dynamics at play.

Infrastructure monitoring for enhanced visibility and control

The thermal optimization solution for data centers offers a vendor-neutral, integrative platform that provides visibility into your infrastructure. Track detailed metrics, including power consumption, PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), and cooling performance, through comprehensive time-series data.

Portfolio analytics with Insights multi-site viewer

The Insights multi-site viewer brings multi-location transparency to cooling system management. Seamlessly connect data from several WSCO-powered facilities to monitor and compare performance metrics across sites. Built-in apps automate reporting, deliver email alerts, and share actionable insights.

Achieving greater efficiency with Chiller Plant Optimization

The WSCO software enables advanced optimization of air-cooled chiller plants, a new feature of its cooling system for data centers. Using machine learning, the software intelligently adjusts water temperatures, pump speeds, and chiller staging to maximize operational efficiency.

Case Study

BMO Case Study: Achieving Efficiency & Reliability

BMO successfully met its temperature Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by implementing the WSCO software as an innovative and AI powered system for thermal optimization in data centers.

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Prerequisites

Facility LAN access

Rack temperature sensors that meet WSCO specs

Physical or digital on/off control of CRACs and CRAHs

Fan speed and/or temperature set point control (where supported)

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