Data Centers
The water side, measured like the power side.
AquaMesh brings cooling water, equipment and load data onto one operating timeline. Start with the measurements already installed, then test additional sensing only for a defined visibility gap.
- Reads
- Existing chemistry, flow, temperature and equipment data
- Connects to
- BMS, historian, water-treatment and service records
- To start
- A make-up analysis and existing tower records
AquaSpectra™ optical sensing
Test the condition existing probes cannot explain.
Conductivity tracks dissolved ionic change but does not identify every chemical or organic condition. If that distinction would change a treatment decision, AquaSpectra can be evaluated against reference samples at the relevant point.
- Define the organic signal Identify the condition an operator needs to distinguish, then compare a candidate spectral signal with the plant’s laboratory and treatment records.
- Keep solids measurements in context Use installed turbidity, filtration and pressure data first. Test any additional optical signal against an appropriate reference method.
- Preserve established controls Conductivity, flow, treatment limits and existing scaling analysis remain authoritative. A new signal must improve a specific decision.
- Prove field reliability Evaluate fouling, cleaning, calibration drift and maintenance needs during a site trial before relying on an unattended measurement.
- Study target
- A defined spectral signature, checked against reference samples and existing chemistry data
- Study point
- Selected from the circuit diagram where an earlier observation could change an approved action
What we find
Where the water side usually leaks value.
These are four conditions worth checking on a cooling circuit. The examples are hypotheses; your own data determines which are present and material.
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Treated water discharged on a schedule
Blowdown driven by a clock throws away water you have already paid to treat and dose, then buys make-up to replace it.
- Blowdown triggered on time rather than on the state of the circuit
- Cycles held at a number chosen years ago rather than the achievable one
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Parallel equipment drifting apart
Towers and chillers on the same duty should behave alike under the same load.
- Parallel towers behaving differently on identical IT load
- Chillers sharing duty unevenly without anyone noticing
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Programmes that cover a worst case daily
Where demand is invisible between service visits, the chemical programme has to assume the worst.
- Inhibitor and biocide dosed to a recipe rather than to measured demand
- Settings unchanged since the last water-treatment contract was signed
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Instruments that stopped telling the truth
A drifting probe on a cooling circuit is expensive in both directions — wasted water, or scale.
- A conductivity probe drifting unnoticed between visits
- Meters on the same line that no longer agree
What you actually get
A ranked list of things to do, each with a number on it.
Not a dashboard to interpret. Findings arrive with the action, the tags that are the evidence, and what the change is worth a year — to accept, resolve or dismiss.
Working together
Built for your plant, not from a preset.
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Free audit
On your BMS and water-treatment records, plus a make-up water analysis.
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Your process, modelled
Modelled on your water and your equipment — the limit is different at every site.
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Sensing where it pays
Most sites already have conductivity and flow. The audit says whether a probe adds enough to justify itself.
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You stay in control
Advisory by default, clamped to limits your engineers set, every approval logged.
Start with a make-up analysis.
That and a month of tower records is enough to say what your data can and cannot answer.
Cooling figures are site-specific: the achievable limit depends on make-up chemistry, equipment and local discharge rules. Read the water quality decision guide.