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ABB AbilityTM

Data Center Automation

The next generation of building automation and
electrical controls: industrial strength, mission
critical converged solutions for data centers.
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Building a data center with control
and monitoring systems from
multiple vendors wastes time,
introduces risk and compromises
performance. ABB’s single
platform approach brings
improved reliability, energy
efficiency, asset utilization and
personnel productivity.
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Why choose ABB
Serving mission critical industries for over
100 years
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An industrial heritage that brings A worldwide service organization
new and innovative solutions to that stands ready to support your
data centers. data center, wherever it is.

ABB is the largest enterprise asset management ABB's global service network is strategically
and distributed control system supplier in positioned to provide support, logistics and
the world. The company's flagship process service operations using standard processes and
automation system, ABB Ability™ System 800xA tools, to ensure our services are delivered quickly
has an installed base of more than 10,000 and reliably anywhere in the world.
systems worldwide.
Tailored service agreements enable us to provide
It is System 800xA that provides the core the exact mix of lifecycle services needed for
technology within ABB Ability™ Data Center mission critical 24/7 operations including spare
Automation. It allows ABB to deliver industrial- parts, technical support, training, emergency on-
strength, mission critical converged solutions for site support, preventive maintenance and more.
mechanical controls (BMS), electrical monitoring
(EPMS), electrical controls (ECS) and DCIM to the A wide variety of optimization services and
data center. analytics are available to ensure efficient
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Why take a new approach?
Because the old way is holding you back

Traditionally, data centers have been designed The industrial world recognized this lack of
and delivered with “silos of automation” that not system collaboration as a problem years ago, and
only increase risk and cost, but create significant has developed robust and flexible solutions that
construction and operational inefficiencies. are proven-in-use.

During construction, this means one controls Collaborative automation systems - where
team bidding on, designing, installing and people, systems and equipment work together
commissioning your electrical controls with seamlessly - are now the industry norm. The
another, from a separate vendor handling payback is improved reliability, energy efficiency,
mechanical controls, and yet another asset utilization and personnel productivity.
implementing the DCIM system. This results in
duplicated effort, increased cost and lengthy ABB has led the way in developing collaborative
delays. solutions for automating all kinds of mission
critical facilities, and is number one in the world
For operations, the result is multiple systems to for distributed control systems.
deal with, none of which are integrated. To make
matters worse, new systems get added to this
mix as the data center grows. The end result is
lack of insight into the behavior of your data
center, and a lack of ability to optimize it.

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Facilities engineering,
operations & planning

EPMS SCADA BATT-MON BMS DCIM

Displays Reports Alarms Displays Alarms Displays Alarms Displays Reports Alarms Control Displays Reports Planning Displays Alarms

Data Data Data Data Data Data

MV/LV Electrical Substation Batteries Mechanical IT Other

Switchgear Utility meter Substation Batteries CRACs VFDs Airflow Chillers Servers Intelligent racks Lighting CCTV

Generators Power Meters Economisers Pressure Network devices Elevators

UPS BCM Physical security

Temperature Fire Detection
and humidity Fire Suppression

PDU Whitespace temp

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ABB AbilityTM Data Center Automation
ABB’s converged solution for the data center

ABB Ability™ Data Center Automation has all the There is no need to add new separate systems in
functionality of every necessary control and order to integrate in-row cooling, additional
monitoring tool required to run a data center in a environmental sensors, physical security
single, industrial platform. Based on the ABB systems, server monitoring or dashboards and
Ability™ System 800xA platform, this data center analytics.
solution is built to exacting standards of
reliability and performance, and is highly secure, New equipment can be added to the system at
expandable, open, modular and maintainable. any time, meaning the system can continue to be
expanded and enhanced long after construction
It's proven-in-use capabilities make building and is complete.
operating a data center more efficient, through:
• Common tools for engineering and Since ABB Ability™ Data Center Automation has a
configuration standards-based integration platform at its core,
• Single consistent data model for all systems it is completely technology and vendor neutral,
• “Single pane of glass” view and adding new mechanical or electrical
• Role-based visualization of data and analytics equipment or software packages is a matter of
• Standards-based communication protocols to configuration, not custom programming. In
enable easy integration of applications. addition to a full range of hardwired I/O options,
it supports all common protocols (Modbus,
With the right converged solution, it's easy to add BACnet, SNMP) as well as advanced protocols
new equipment and capabilities at any time. such as IEC61850.

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Data Center Automation

Additional third-party or
end-user created modules
can be added later...
Displays Reports Alarms Control Planning Operations Performance Data Energy Maintenance
Management KPIS Analytics Optimization Management

Data

Switchgear Utility meter Generators PMS Substation CMS CRACs VFDs Airflow Servers Intelligent Lighting CCTV
racks

Power Meters UPS BCM EMS BMS Chillers Economisers Pressure Network Elevators Physical
devices security

PDU Whitespace
temp
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Advantages of a converged solution
ABB Ability™ Data Center Automation
A converged system, implemented with hardened and proven components and
delivered by a trusted and experienced partner, delivers benefits during all phases
of a data center’s lifecycle.

System Overview

BMS Display
EPMS Display
Aspect Servers -
Redundant

Connectivity Connectivity Servers

Servers (Electrical) (Mechanical)
Redundant Redundant
Other
Other
systems
devices

Substations Plug-in strips

Redundant Security
high- Monitoring
performance
controllers
Generators Switchgear Temperature and
humidity sensors

Fire Detection
Economizers Fire Suppression
Power meters PDUs

Chillers

CCTV
UPS Branch-circuit monitors

CRACs/CRAHs Drives
Battery monitoring

ABB Ability™ Server

IT Service Management CMDB Maintenance Management Document Management ABB Controllers

ABB approach Traditional approach

Single platform technology: Different technologies and systems for mechanical and electrical:
• Provides easy integration between EPMS, ECS and BMS • Adds cost, risk and inefficiencies
Vendor agnostic with configurable integration of data and software applications: Multiple suppliers:
• Faster installation, commissioning and fault finding • Tied to demands from individual equipment suppliers
Converged solution means new equipment and capabilities can be added at Silos of automation:
any time: • Adding a new system means adding another silo
• No need for custom system integrations
Solution based totally on ABB products: System integrators deliver solutions using third party products:
• Tested and field-proven, significantly reducing risk • Bespoke system integration adding risk and cost
• Reduced troubleshooting and rework delays • Limited responsibility for the entire solution
Sole supplier: Multi-team commissioning:
• One site team with expertise on all systems • One vendor and installation crew per system
• One project manager for increased accountability • Multiple teams for the builder to manage
• Avoid conflict and blame between vendors
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Collaborative control for data centers
Single window collaboration and efficiency

A single window on the world Features Benefits

Whether ABB’s industrial workstation - the Integration for legacy Consolidated view of all data
Extended Operator Workplace (EOW) - or a single solutions center systems
display on a handheld device is selected, the ABB Collaboration platform for Improved asset performance
AbilityTM Data Center Automation system gives operations

operators: Integrated control Consolidated data for

environment for EPMS, ECS optimum decision making
and BMS
• Intelligent navigation capabilities
Ready for remote Enterprise view and/or
• Alarm management functionality connectivity remote access to expertise
• Integrated video and communications features
• Integrated information from all data center
systems through one interface
• Dynamic and configurable views based on user
role

In addition, ABB provides control room design

services to help minimize footprint while
optimizing the operator experience with a focus
on human factors such as ergonomics and
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operator well-being.
Extended Operator
Workplace (EOW)
user interface for the
converged Data Center
Automation System
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Building Management System (BMS)
Automatic control and scheduling

In today’s data centers, an efficiently managed

Features Benefits
building isn’t enough. An integrated building
Solutions based on Powerful 24x7x365 operations
management solution is required in order to industrial controls
provide real-time information to multiple technology
decision makers to maintain 24x7 operations, PLC to fully hot-swappable A full range of control options
ensure safety and security as well as to protect controllers

and manage the data center assets. "Everything redundant" System can survive failure of
architecture (optional) any component
Vendor neutral hardware Flexibility of choice for
Industrially proven and reliable controllers integration hardware
Highly scalable, fault tolerant and modular Built-in tools to review and 100 percent user maintainable
controllers and I/O provide control of the monitor control logic throughout the lifecycle
mechanical infrastructure of a data center. This
industrially proven control hardware ensures you ABB controllers are:
can achieve the level of availabililty and • Reliable, fault tolerant and resilient
maintainability that is required in a mission • Redundant controllers / CPU
critical data center. • Redundant I/O interfaces
• Redundant network
• Redundant power supplies
• Hot swappable modules
Building Management System (BMS)
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Automatic
Automatic control
control and scheduling of all mechanical infrastructure
and scheduling of all
mechanical infrastructure

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Electrical Power Management System
(EPMS)
Electrical monitoring from substation to chip
Monitoring every electrical sub-system Features Benefits
Whether it's deployed as a stand alone EPMS or Supports all common Seamless access to data from
part of a converged system, ABB AbilityTM Data protocols all common meter vendors
Center Automation provides superior electrical High speed communication All data is collected and
monitoring, reporting and analytics. This ensures and data storage presented in real time

that the electrical system performance is Extensive power quality Intuitive troubleshooting and
analysis tools baseline data capture
optimized, while identifying issues before they capabilities
escalate.
Live single-line diagrams Maintenance support
Drill down into equipment Single source for system
With this product, you can: details information
• Manage electricity capacity Sophisticated alarm Fast-fault detection
• Analyze the quality of power in the data center management tools
• Visualize how energy is used Vendor-neutral power Harmonics and disturbance
quality meter (PQM) data can be read from any
• View performance trends
interface third-party meter
• Identify potential problems

Electrical Power Management System (EPMS)

Electrical
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monitoring from substation to plug
EPMS visualization of the
electrical system with
deep dive analytics

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Electrical Control System (ECS)
Take control of your power

Managing electrical loads Features Benefits

Today’s data centers need to minimize energy Solutions based on Powerful 24x7x365
costs and maximize capacity. This can be industrial controls operations
achieved through: technology
Controller-based All control logic is running in
implementation hot-redundant controllers
• Integrating onsite solar or wind generation to
designed for data center
minimize grid demand applications
• Using a Battery Electrical Storage System Built-in to the ABB AbilityTM ECS is fully integrated with
(BESS) to avoid peak demand charges or shift Data Center Automation the rest of the automation
load to lower rate periods system system, giving full system
visibility to operations,
• Implementing a load management system to complete with overrides and
offload non-critical systems during peak system alarms
demand periods, or for scheduling load
shedding or restoration after a grid failure.
Using high-speed, redundant controllers and
The ECS built within the ABB AbilityTM Data Center state-of-the-art communications protocols such
Automation provides the ability to flexibly and as IEC61850, ABB delivers robust, standardized
reliably manage and control electrical solutions, configured to meet the specific needs
infrastructure. of any data center.

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Controlling your
electrical infrastructure,
including microgrids,
substations, renewables
Backup generator
and load management and UPS
Thermal
Storage

PV Generation

Data center
Wind
Generation

Distributed
Generation

Fuel Cell
Local
Substation
Large Scale
Battery Storage

Utility Power Plant

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ABB in the Data Center Industry
Empowering integrated operations

— CMMS Integration
ABB's converged solution drives ABB Ability Data Center Automation integrates
to third party Computerized Maintenance
operational savings with Management Systems (CMMS) such as Maximo
integrated functions for both and SAP PM. Through this integration,
maintenance data such as active work orders and
operations and maintenance. work order history can be shared seamlessly
between the ABB AbilityTM Data Center
Perhaps the greatest benefit of ABB AbilityTM Data Automation system and the CMMS. Work orders
Center Automation is the wide range of can be automatically generated based on triggers
integrated applications and functions that can be determined by the condition monitoring module,
applied across the entire converged system. saving time and eliminating errors.
Using a common data model, functions such as
advanced navigation, alarm management, history, Operations Management
condition-based maintenance, CMMS integration ABB's integrated operations management
and operations management can be implemented functionality ensures complete tracking of
with a few clicks. These functions will make both processes that are typically handled with paper,
operations and maintenance more efficient: spreadsheets and emails. Features like the
electronic logbook and operator rounds tracking
Predictive Maintenance allow operations teams to eliminate paperwork
A shift towards more predictive maintenance is and ensure seamless communication over shift
crucial for driving down the cost of maintaining changes.
data centers. With ABB's built in condition
monitoring and reporting features, information is These unique operational features are part of the
collected, aggregated, analyzed, and compared to ABB AbilityTM Data Center Automation solutions
historical data to provide advanced warning of suite and deliver significant benefits for
degrading equipment performance or impending operations and maintenance.
failure.

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