First joint offering to combine intelligent selection of resources to help reduce energy use
Honeywell and Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, will work together to create integrated solutions to optimize data centre sustainability, resiliency and operational performance. These solutions are expected to be available in 2020.
The partnership builds on Honeywell’s industry-leading building management systems (BMS), operational software, and safety and security products along with Vertiv’s uninterruptible power supply (UPS), power distribution, infrastructure monitoring and modular solutions.
The companies will leverage building-operations data to drive optimization of operations, reducing energy use and costs while improving data centre performance and sustainability.
“Data centres face similar challenges as other buildings that have disparate systems that were not designed to work together, but they experience these challenges on a greater scale,” remarked George Bou Mitri, VP and GM, Honeywell Building Technologies, Middle East, Turkey and Africa.
“There is need and opportunity for data centres to be more efficient, reliable and sustainable,” commented Rob Johnson, CEO, Vertiv.
The companies’ initial focus will be on micro-grid solutions for data centres to enable more efficient integration of alternative energy sources such as solar arrays, fuel cells and batteries, and to provide a scalable approach for operators to quickly enhance functionality and improve total cost of ownership.
The first offering from the collaboration will be an intelligent power management solution that features an energy resource management and supervisory control system in a single, integrated platform.
