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As the digital economy flourishes, data centers are becoming increasingly important as the intelligent base for industry-wide digital transformation. At the same time, the scale of data centre construction and its total volume of business are growing. The scale of server room management continues to grow, and the complexity of the network is increasing. Resources are frequently changing and upgrading, and energy costs are increasing. What’s more, as the goal to achieve carbon neutrality and peak emissions has been proposed, it has become the industry-wide consensus to seek intelligent ways to upgrade the capabilities of energy saving and operation and maintenance through.

Guided by the strategy of "cloud to digital transformation", Zhejiang Telecom has joined hands with AsiaInfo to accelerate the construction of the smart server room management platform lighthouse project. It has worked with AsiaInfo to upgrade the digital intelligence operation and maintenance of traditional server rooms by making comprehensive use of new technologies such as 5G, AI and big data. As a result, a benchmark demonstration of digital intelligent transformation has been created  for the high-quality development of enterprises.

AsiaInfo helps Zhejiang Telecom reduce the costs of its intelligent server rooms and improve their quality and efficiency

Zhejiang Telecom focuses on applications in production operations, security monitoring and other related scenarios. Under the traditional model, the operation and maintenance of data centre server rooms mainly relies on experienced operation and maintenance teams and standardized operation and maintenance processes, requiring a lot of human and material resources. Moreover, there are difficulties in responding to system risks and early warnings in a timely manner, managing cumbersome assets, assessing and enhancing value.

The intelligent server rooms built by AsiaInfo for Zhejiang Telecom focuses on applications related to production operations and security monitoring. It integrates cutting-edge technologies such as big data, IoT, AI and digital twin to provide one-stop services that are "standardized, secure, open, stable, green and energy-efficient". It comprehensively improves the digital and intelligent level of server room management and better supports business development.

Thanks to the assistance of AsiaInfo, the smart server rooms of Zhejiang Telecom have now achieved unified the management of 18 types of business work orders in the IDC server room, and completed the full online production and operation-related scenarios. Based on the unified operation platform of smart server rooms, it acquires information and controls equipment by connecting all kinds of edge devices in the server room. Zhejiang Telecom also has built a data zone for the smart server room by collecting collaborative data from the periphery to realize BMO data and process pull-through, supporting application scenarios like production digitization, energy saving digitization, asset digitization, security monitoring digitization, and panoramic visualization.

Four-way capability to empower intelligent server rooms

With its leading capabilities of proposing intelligent server room solutions and mature practical experience, AsiaInfo can open up the upstream and downstream systems of intelligent server rooms, integrate the data systems of resources, assets, motion and video, and build "four-way intelligence" capabilities. It uses intelligent and information-based means to make server rooms intelligent and improve cost-effectiveness for greater value.

The details are as follows:

1. AI-empowered production and operations

It standardizes the processes of server room operation and maintenance, builds a unified operation platform for intelligent server rooms, and efficiently collaborates with intelligent hardware devices such as RPA robots, electronic tags and sensors to enhance digital management capabilities. It supports visual configuration of work order processes for eight scenarios, including operation planning, risk operation, fault handling, resource change, engineering cooperation, request support, service opening and command tasks. It introduces intelligent equipment such as AIPRPA intelligent robots to gradually realize unattended automatic operation and maintenance, significantly simplify daily inspection work and make server room operations more intelligent. At the same time, leading AI recognition capabilities are incorporated to cover core scenarios such as personnel access management, server room attendant work, server room inspection, operation quality management and equipment AI recognition. As a result, it has achieved automatic risk warning.

2. Digitization of energy-saving efforts

Through the Internet of Things, big data and other technologies, it transforms the accurate monitoring of energy consumption of the server room. It monitors in real time and collects energy consumption data and dynamic and environmental data. It also monitors the server room and analyses data through video identification technology. It enables auxiliary management decision-making as well. On the smart server room platform, the real-time energy consumption, regulation, PUE analysis and energy saving effectiveness analysis of the server room are displayed visually for smart energy saving.

3. Total Asset Lifecycle Management

Through AI recognition, big data and other digital means, it solves the complicated problems of asset management and realizes the whole lifecycle value management of assets and efficient inventory of resources. For example, in the daily inspection and checking process, AI recognition or information correlation can be used to effectively verify the accuracy and consistency of resources and asset data, and provide equipment-related information data to assist procurement decisions. Investment value analysis can also be done for equipment assets such as target server rooms and base stations to enhance refined management and decision-making.

4. Digital twin visualization

A smart server room twin is built to achieve digital and visual management of buildings, server rooms and equipment. Information is centralized to manage infrastructure operations and maintenance, refining management and improving the quality and efficiency of operations and maintenance.

In recent years, AsiaInfo has assisted operators in Sichuan, Beijing and other cities and provinces to build intelligent server rooms, helping enterprises improve cost-effectiveness and accelerate the transformation of digital intelligence. In the future, AsiaInfo will continue to give full play to its technical advantages and practical experience to support the construction of a green, intelligent, efficient and secure data centre infrastructure to help the digital economy thrive.