Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) vendor Vigilent announced the latest release of its cooling platform for data centers, which it plans to make available in December.

Called “Version 5”, the platform enables cooling capacity to follow IT load more closely, using a new algorithm for controlling variable-frequency drives (VFDs), and has new automated reporting and visualization features.

Vigilent’s solution measures environmental conditions on the raised floor in real time and adjusts the cooling system accordingly. The adjustment, according to customer reports, often leads to the shut-down of several air conditioning units in a data center and corresponding energy savings and expanded overhead capacity.

At the core of the solution is a data analytics engine that uses historical data from all of Vigilent customers’ facilities to predict cooling requirements in a particular data center.

Christopher Kryzan, VP of marketing at Vigilent, said the company’s staff of scientists constantly analyze the nature of infrastructure-control response in data centers and working on further optimization. The VFD control algorithm Version 5 is based on is the latest product of their work.

“We have four Ph.Ds working now just on algorithms,” he said. If Vigilent was promising up to 40% savings to customers up until now, the latest version, as a result of the new algorithm, enables the company to now promise 50% savings.

New reporting feature include temperature compliance reports, which allow operators to verify that they are meeting their Service Level Agreements. The feature generates a detailed report of rack inlet temperature and distribution.

There is also a new measurement and verification reporting capability. The solution can now generate a report on power consumption, annual savings as a result of deployment of a particular efficiency solution, average power usage over time, average power-usage reduction, etc.

This feature can be used to measure the results of installation of banking panels to optimize airflow, for example. Customers can also use it to help get approval for an energy-efficiency incentive rebate from a utility.