Imagine your server room as a giant heater that wastes a lot of electricity. This project creates a smart 'digital twin'—like a high-tech flight simulator—to plan and run the room perfectly. It also adds a special cooling machine that catches the waste heat and uses it to cool the servers back down, creating a self-sustaining loop.
Corporate IT rooms in tertiary buildings consume excessive energy and generate waste heat that is typically vented, increasing operational costs and carbon footprints.
A PaaS-based Building Digital Twin Environment with SIMBots for planning and a rack-integrated adsorption chiller for waste-heat powered cooling.
If you are a building manager dealing with high energy bills from IT rooms—this project developed a Building Digital Twin Environment that optimizes planning and operation to reduce energy waste.
If you are an operator dealing with server overheating—this project developed a rack-integrated adsorption chiller that uses waste heat to provide liquid cooling for servers.
If you are a manufacturer dealing with inefficient cooling designs—this project developed SIMBots and standardized processes to make modular cooling solutions easier to replicate and certify.
Based on available project data, specific pricing is not provided, but the project aims to create a 'cost-effective' modular solution for heat recovery.
The project focuses on 'tertiary buildings with high energy demand IT Rooms' and aims for 'replicable' solutions through standardization, suggesting scalability for corporate environments.
Based on available project data, the software is developed as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) with Web API microservices, but specific licensing terms are not listed.
The tools are designed to communicate with both Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) at the server level and Energy Management Systems (EMS) at the building level.
The project runs from 2023-12-01 to 2026-11-30, with testing currently occurring in TRL 4 and TRL 5 environments.
The project has a strong commercial orientation with a 44% industry ratio, comprising 4 industrial partners (including 4 SMEs) and 5 academic/research entities across 5 countries. This balance suggests the technology is being developed with a direct path to market application rather than purely theoretical research.
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