Centralized Control Across your Data Center
High-performance data centers rely on the seamless interconnection and coordination of thermal, mechanical, electrical and power systems, with each system having thousands of control and monitoring points.
Emerson’s DeltaV Automation Platform unifies these systems into a single control environment, delivering execution speed to meet aggressive timelines and enabling real-time monitoring and optimization across the entire campus.
Accelerate Speed to Operation
Late changes are inevitable on large scale, complex projects. An automation system designed to reduce rework and minimize schedule impact is essential to achieving project timelines. DeltaV technology and Emerson’s Project Optimization framework helps project teams accommodate late changes while reducing associated time and cost impacts.
Uncompromising Reliability
Reliability is critical to meeting data center uptime goals and realizing return on investment. DeltaV’s architecture is natively redundant, designed to proactively safeguard operations and minimize risk. With system-wide and component-level redundancy and built-in cybersecurity, DeltaV enables reliable integration of data center infrastructure to meet your operation and performance needs.
Global Expertise, Local Support
DeltaV has been trusted to control data center operations for over 15 years. We provide localized expertise backed by global resources to bring the right people and the right technology to wherever your data center is located. Local product availability and on-the-ground support helps ensure fast response times and reliable execution across the data center lifecycle.
Precision Control of Cooling Systems
High performance cooling infrastructure is critical to data center operation, but increasingly complex to manage. Chillers, cooling towers, hundreds of CRAHs, CRACs, pumps, and fans must work together to maintain optimal conditions as IT workloads quickly ramp and fluctuate. Lack of granularity can lead to overcooling entire rooms while missing localized overheating issues.
DeltaV brings proven, high precision control to cooling systems, providing equipment level and facility wide control that dynamically adjusts to changing thermal loads.
Maintain consistent control across multiple variables to stabilize temperatures as heat loads fluctuate.
Predict, sense and adapt to changing workloads and thermal demands to protect your IT equipment.
Bring equipment and sub-systems into a unified control environment to enable greater data sharing and improved operation.
Fine tune your system parameters to improve power usage effectiveness and support sustainability targets.
Monitor and control cooling assets through one interface to streamline decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
Explore DeltaV Technology
From centralized control to advanced optimization and actionable insights, DeltaV solutions work together to improve visibility, enhance reliability, and help you operate more efficiently at scale.
Integrated Control and Optimization
An integrated set of automation solutions that unify control, optimize performance, and deliver the insight needed to run critical data center infrastructure.
Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
Delivers fast, localized control for specific equipment and subsystems, with native integration into the broader DeltaV environment.
Distributed Control System (DCS)
Provides centralized, scalable control across critical data center infrastructure. DeltaV connects thermal, mechanical, electrical and power systems into a unified environment, improving visibility, coordination, and overall system reliability.
DeltaV Live
The DeltaV operator interface unified data center operations. DeltaV Live incorporates Human Center Design and an array of specialized graphic libraries, allowing data center operators to leverage industry best practices while customizing to their specific needs.
Eliminate Cost
Innovative engineering practices help eliminate the costs associated with hardware design, the labor to install it, and the effort to maintain it.
Reducing Complexity
Value-improvement programs and standardization help automate work processes and enable well-informed project contributors to work the same plan in parallel.
Accommodating Change
Project changes are inevitable. With the right technology and the right strategy, you can absorb changes without negatively impacting the schedule.
Expert Partnering
Early and ongoing collaboration not only drives organizational consensus but better ensures attainment of long-term operational objectives.
Frequently Asked Questions
DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) provide a unified automation layer for monitoring and controlling the critical infrastructure in the gray space of data centers. DeltaV PLCs provide deterministic, modular control that integrates with DeltaV DCS to provide centralized control across the data center. It enables standardized control strategies, centralized monitoring, and automated responses, helping operators reduce risk, minimize downtime, and maintain continuous uptime across facilities.
Distributed control systems, like DeltaV DCS, ensure large, complex data centers can be orchestrated as a single facility, with the many sub-systems coordinated towards a common goal. With a unified, shared database of alarms, events, and configuration, distributed control systems help save engineering and execution time by preventing inconsistent logic, avoiding unnecessary data mapping and syncing and eliminating stranded, siloed data.
DeltaV assists with the integration and coordination of the thermal, mechanical, electrical and power sub-systems throughout the data center. DeltaV PLCs integrate in skid- and equipment-level systems by natively supporting BACnet, Ethernet/IP, Profinet and X more protocols. DeltaV PLCs and field instrumentation are connected to the wider DeltaV DCS to provide operators redundant, fully integrated control of the data center.
DeltaV was designed on the principle that critical components can be updated online, helping avoid downtime during expansions and upgrades. Built-in redundancy and bumpless controller switchover ensure operations continue smoothly throughout new project builds. A centralized DeltaV database helps reduce execution time and improve site HMI consistency through templated logic, configuration, and graphics.
DeltaV provides centralized oversight while maintaining clear segmentation of systems and data, enabling efficient management of shared infrastructure while supporting tenant-specific requirements.
With DeltaV, you don’t have to choose. DeltaV PLCs have a long history of delivering mission-critical control in harsh environments, with highly redundant architectures, hot-swap capabilities, and native support for a wide range of protocols. They provide modular control for electrical and cooling equipment and seamlessly integrate into the DeltaV DCS. DeltaV DCS has delivered centralized control for complex data centers for over 15 years. Together, DeltaV PLCs and DCS help you coordinate subsystems and achieve your operational performance goals.
