Data center cooling strategy: Using the AI-driven Cooling Advisor tool in EkkoSoft Critical
Cooling Advisor – the industry’s first, fully-embedded AI-driven data center cooling advisory tool – is a hugely-powerful tool that gives EkkoSoft Critical users a broad range of self-optimizing capabilities.
Described as like having your own in-house optimization consultant working 24/7 in each of your data center rooms, Cooling Advisor is a valuable data center cooling strategy asset. It features an intuitive process that equips operations teams with clear recommendations of the next best action to take on their journey towards maximum optimization efficiency and data center cooling.
Cooling Advisor applies powerful machine learning and AI technology to provide users with valuable, proactive thermal advice. It’s a great way of helping facilities managers, energy managers and operations teams with their data center cooling strategy – making sure that their data center’s thermal performance remains optimized.
However, a key benefit with Cooling Advisor is that you can progress towards optimization goals at your own pace – taking advantage of Cooling Advisor recommendations to reach and maintain your own data center cooling best practice. Active risk mitigation is built-in to the software, with clearly defined steps, back-out mechanisms, and a full audit trail of all user inputs and activities conducted.
The good news is that using Cooling Advisor couldn’t be any easier – here’s a short one minute video showing how it works:
First hit START to launch Cooling Advisor
Then enter in your parameters – such as Max and Min Temp, and Redundancy – then choose whether to receive recommendations for supply tile placement or placing units in standby
- Hit START OPTIMIZATION to begin the Advisor cycle
- Cooling Advisor will then produce a list of recommendations to reduce risk and save energy
- Hover your cursor over a task to highlight the recommended action on the floor
- Accept or Reject any recommended task
- Switch to the ACU task list
- Then view the recommendations for:
- Adding or removing supply tiles
- Changing ACU set points
- Changing ACU fan speeds
- Placing units on standby to reduce risk and save cooling energy
Watch our Cooling Advisor Tech Tips video here. And if you want to learn more about how EkkoSoft Critical provides a perfect go-to-optimization tool for data center operations teams, book a free 1:1 demonstration.
