Prevantec AI for Data Centres

Turn your reactive maintenance on your data centre into planned maintenance.

Prevantec AI reads the trend data your BMS, DCIM or EPMS already logs. It flags a chiller, pump, fan or generator when it drifts from its own normal behaviour, before it trips or alarms. You schedule the repair into a maintenance window instead of responding to a thermal event. No new sensors. No changes to your BMS.

CH-02 / CHW-PUMP-01 Motor current, 5 min average Alarm zone Learned normal band Lead-time alert Deviation flagged, unit still running Flag Trip Time
Redundancy is the asset

A failed redundant unit is not an outage. It is the start of your exposure window.

Cooling and power plant is built N+1 or 2N so that one unit can fail without dropping load. When a unit fails without warning, you run at N until it is repaired, and a second failure in that window takes load down. Calendar-based PM does not change this, because it services units on a schedule regardless of condition. Fixed BMS alarms only fire once a value has crossed its limit. Lead time before the failure lets you repair the degrading unit while redundancy is still intact.

Equipment in scope

Rotating and process equipment, the same class Prevantec was validated on.

Typical inputs are the tags you already trend: motor current, supply and return temperatures, differential pressure, flow, run hours, and vibration or bearing temperature where it's instrumented.

  • 01Chillers and compressors
  • 02Chilled water and condenser water pumps
  • 03Cooling towers and tower fans
  • 04CRAH and CRAC fans
  • 05Backup diesel generators

UPS systems and switchgear can be assessed where trend data is already logged. Whether they're in scope is confirmed during Phase 0.

Three steps, low lift for your team

STEP 01

Connect to the trend data you already log.

BMS trend logs, DCIM, EPMS or historian exports. Access is read-only. The data path, including whether Prevantec runs inside your own environment, is agreed with your IT and security team in Phase 0.

STEP 02

Baseline normal behaviour per asset.

Each unit is compared against its own history, not a generic threshold.

STEP 03

Get a lead-time alert you can verify.

Every alert shows the tag and the trend that triggered it, so your facilities engineers can check the reasoning before they raise a work order in your CMMS.

Where the method has been proven

79hours Mean lead time
7of 7 Confirmed shutdown events detected
0 New sensors installed

Prevantec was validated on a Canadian ethanol producer's dryer system using their existing PI historian data. It detected dust collector degradation ahead of 7 confirmed mechanical shutdown events, with a mean lead time of 79 hours.

It has not yet been deployed in a data centre. The failure modes it detected, fan, motor and bearing degradation on rotating equipment, are the same ones found in data centre cooling plant. MASE AI is a young company proving the system one asset at a time, and we're looking for a first data centre site to prove it on.

How an engagement starts

A fixed-fee assessment that ends in a written go or no-go.

Phase 0 takes roughly 4 to 6 weeks. You get an audit of your BMS, DCIM or EPMS trend data, a walkthrough of your mechanical and electrical schematics, a criticality ranking of your cooling and backup power assets, and a written scope with a go or no-go recommendation. If your data can't support reliable detection, the report says so.

Fixed fee 4 to 6 weeks Ends in a written go or no-go
Book a 20-minute data review

Looking for a first data centre pilot site.

If you run cooling or backup power plant and already trend it, a 20-minute data review will tell you whether Phase 0 is worth doing.