Network of interconnected circuit protection devices

摘要

A network of interconnected circuit protection devices in a datacenter that can communicate over a network. Each circuit protection device can have a management component such that each device could know the state of every other device or a centralized management component could know the state of all devices. The states of the protection devices could include, fault or non-fault (e.g., high-current, current-imbalance and high temperature). Using this information, the management component(s) can prevent a single-device failure from triggering circuit-protection devices in other sections of the data center to open. The breaker logic can operate such that if a single device short-circuited and all devices upstream in the power delivery system sensed the short-circuit, then the lowest-level device would open and if the fault was still detected upstream, then the next level device would open.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for controlling circuit protection devices in a datacenter, comprising:
under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions:
receiving information about a circuit fault event from a plurality of circuit protection devices that provide circuit protection for a plurality of datacenter components in a datacenter, each of the plurality of circuit protection devices including a switch openable by the one or more computer systems to open a circuit in the datacenter;in response to the circuit fault event, accessing information about a hierarchy of said plurality of datacenter components in the datacenter; andbased upon the information about the hierarchy, opening the switches of the circuit protection devices in the plurality of circuit protection devices that provide protection for the datacenter components in a lowest level of the hierarchy.