Patent ID: 9476657
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: F28D,F28F,G05D,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for controlling a data center cooling system, the method comprising: polling a plurality of control devices associated with the data center cooling system for a respective state of each of the control devices, the plurality of control devices comprising a plurality of control valves, each of the control valves in fluid communication with a cooling fluid source and at least one air-to-liquid heat exchanger mounted in a modular cooling apparatus, wherein polling a plurality of control devices associated with the data center cooling system comprises polling a plurality of controllers communicably coupled to the plurality of control valves by a proxy, the proxy executed on at least one rack-mounted computing device of the data center; receiving, from each of the plurality of control devices, a response that comprises the respective state; aggregating the responses from the plurality of control devices; executing a control algorithm that comprises the aggregated responses as an input to the algorithm and an output that comprises a setpoint of the plurality of control devices; and transmitting the output to the plurality of control devices.