Operational Digital Twins for Data Centers

Solve Today’s Data Center Challenges with Smart Spatial

Data Center Challenges with Smart Spatial

70% of data center outages cost over $100,000.

As demand, complexity, and operational risks grow, data center leaders face unprecedented challenges

Key Industry Challenges:

High-Density Racks & Rising Heat Loads

Managing thermal loads to prevent costly outages and equipment failures

Power and Cooling Optimization Under Pressure

Balancing energy efficiency with uptime and redundancy requirements

Limited Visibility Across Complex Systems

Integrating siloed systems for cohesive monitoring and control

Overprovisioning and CapEx Waste

Avoiding unnecessary capital expenses through accurate capacity planning

Remote Access & Restricted Sites

Supporting virtual engagement when physical site visits aren’t feasible

Training & Workforce Readiness

Ensuring operational staff are prepared for emergencies and high-risk equipment

Stakeholder Engagement & Capital Raising

Communicating complex designs and future plans to investors and partners

Smart Spatial transforms these challenges into opportunities through an integrated, high-fidelity digital twin platform—enhancing operations, sales, and training across your facility's lifecycle.

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

Operations

Optimize Performance and Ensure Resilience

Smart Spatial provides a unified operational platform to monitor, simulate, and automate data center operations — improving efficiency, reliability, and visibility.

Unified Operations Dashboard
  • Aggregate all systems — power, cooling, security — in a single 3D interface
  • Use X-Ray vision to inspect hidden infrastructure
  • Support remote teams through collaborative, live 3D environments
Thermal Visualization
  • Visualize airflow and temperature gradients in real time
  • Detect and address hotspots before they impact equipment
  • Simulate various cooling strategies to optimize energy efficiency
Asset Management
  • Gain comprehensive visibility into rack, power, and network port utilization
  • Avoid overprovisioning and optimize resource utilization
Anomaly Detection
  • Analyze real-time sensor data to detect anomalies early
  • Automate alerts and interventions to prevent operational disruptions
Automation & Remote Operations
  • Centralize monitoring, control, and automation
  • Remotely manage assets, adjust settings, and run routine tasks
  • Essential for distributed or multi-site data center operations
Outcome: Achieve higher uptime, lower costs, and safer operations with an immersive, data-driven approach to managing your facility.

Marketing & Sales

Differentiate, Engage, and Accelerate Deals

Smart Spatial transforms your data center into a sales and marketing engine, helping you showcase complex infrastructure, even when the facility is remote, under construction, or restricted.

Self-Service Virtual Tours
  • Offer intuitive, browser-based 3D tours
  • Use before construction is complete to showcase planned infrastructure
  • Ideal for global clients, compliance audits, or when site visits aren’t feasible
  • Accessible from any device—laptops, tablets, smartphones
Trade Show Experiences
  • Provide interactive, immersive demos at trade shows or conferences
  • Let attendees virtually navigate your facility and explore key features
  • Reduce logistics and security concerns of organizing physical tours
Content Generation for Marketing
  • Instantly create stunning visuals, videos, and interactive demos
  • Fuel presentations, social media, and investor communications
  • Keep marketing content current as your facility evolves
Showcase Future Facilities: Raise Capital with Confidence
  • Build lifelike, interactive simulations of planned data centers
  • Demonstrate design features like redundancy and energy efficiency
  • Use geospatial overlays and simulated drone fly-throughs for pitches
  • Accelerate fundraising with compelling, data-driven visuals
Real-Time ESG & SLA Dashboards
  • Visually demonstrate sustainability and compliance performance
  • Share live dashboards with clients, investors, and auditors
  • Build trust through transparency on uptime, efficiency, and ESG metrics
Outcome: Boost marketing impact, accelerate sales cycles, and differentiate your facility through immersive, virtual engagement.

Training

Build Safer, Smarter, and More Resilient Teams

Smart Spatial offers lifelike simulations that enhance training, onboarding, and certification, improving team performance and reducing operational risk.

Tiered Data Center Training & Certification
  • Visualize and compare Tier 1, 2, and 3 infrastructures
  • Overlay live data for comparing actual vs. theoretical performance
  • Implement gamified learning and certification workflows
  • Integrate with HR systems for progress tracking and compliance
Failure Simulation & Troubleshooting
  • Simulate system failures and cascading incidents
  • Provide step-by-step guidance with AI-driven feedback
  • Use scenario replay to analyze decisions and improve readiness
Annual Certification Renewal
  • Automate renewal workflows with built-in reminders
  • Use simulated environments to demonstrate skills without impacting live operations
  • Centralized dashboards for tracking compliance and training progress
Onboarding & Facility Orientation
  • Interactive 3D walkthroughs for new hires and contractors
  • Role-specific modules for maintenance, security, or operations staff
  • Gamified tasks to improve spatial awareness and process comprehension
High-Risk Equipment Training
  • Simulate procedures involving high-voltage or critical systems
  • Reinforce safety protocols through hazard identification exercises
  • Use AI-driven coaching to correct unsafe practices
  • Practice emergency responses in a risk-free, virtual environment
Outcome: Improve training efficiency, enhance safety, and ensure regulatory compliance with immersive, on-demand digital simulations.

Deployment & Implementation

Whether for Marketing, Operations, or Training, Smart Spatial deploys rapidly with minimal disruption:

On-Prem, Edge, or Cloud deployments

Access from laptops, tablets, or workstations

Works in Tier IV hyperscale facilities or remote edge sites

Deploy and go live in weeks, not months

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

One 3D view instead of dozens of 2D screens

Single Source of Truth

Live data ingestion

Integrate any systems and sensors

X-Ray vision: see in a twin what you cannot see in physical world

Time machine - replay past events

See how systems interoperate

2-way communication with control capability

Geospatial Alarming

How We Work

01.

BIM to Twin

Creating the Core Assets & Environment
Duration: 1-2 Weeks

In this phase, Smart Spatial Team ingests the BIM Model (REVIT, IFC etc.)  of a site and/or equipment, and creates a digital replica of the asset with high fidelity 3D materials. 
The asset is placed in a digital world accessible across desktop, mobile and VR with fully interactive navigation such as Fly mode, Walk mode, and one-click navigation to any pre-set views.

Benefits:

The Model is immediately accessible to Sales and Marketing staff to facilitate Virtual Tours, enable true-to life demos, and produce still and video collateral for campaigns. The interactive model can be showcased at trade-shows and events. The model is also useful to the Operations team in reducing on-site vendor visits by facilitating a digital site walk-through, and remote collaboration.

02.

Data Ingestion

Operationalizing the Digital Twin
Duration: 1-3 Months

In this phase, we identify and integrate the key telemetry and operational systems into the twin environment. Systems can include: BMS, EMS, CMMS, DCIM, FDD/Analytics, Access Control etc.

Benefits:
A synchronized digital twin with data driven geometry enhances operational activities and provides a single source of truth/single pane of glass for multiple operational systems.

The instant availability and multi-device accessibility enables operational excellence on site and in remote (NOC) setting.
The Spatial awareness improves new employee training and ongoing equipment maintenance.

03.

Use Case Applications

Driving Value with Custom Workflows
Duration: Per Scope

In this phase, the team is free to choose various use cases to implement in the virtual environment to extend its usefulness across various business functions. Use cases may include:
Expanding the model to extreme equipment detail down to the nuts and bolts, drastically improving maintenance efficiency.

Adding Flow & Fluid physics enables the model to show air, liquid, and power flows.

Adding custom Training scenarios and walk-throughs.

Adding Simulation to show what-if scenarios, with a “DVR” type capability to go back and forward in time.

Adding 1-click custom views such as show all cable trays, show networking, show all firebreak walls, etc.

Benefits:
With the fundamentals done: (Model and Data), the environment can be infinitely and rapidly enhanced to tackle very specific and unique use cases with minimal effort.

Success Stories

See how businesses are leveraging Smart Spatial to create innovative, efficient, and sustainable building solutions — faster than ever

Kevlinx is transforming client engagement with their BRU01 Digital Twin in Brussels. Powered by Smart Spatial’s platform, it provides high-fidelity visualization of the facility, even during construction, speeding time-to-market. Clients gain true to life access to tour the facility and learn about the various data hall layouts and cooling technologies. The Digital Twin showcases best in class engineering focused on sustainability
PNY and Automation are elevating modular data center engagement with their Digital Twin, showcased at NVIDIA GTC and Hannover Messe 2025. Built on Smart Spatial’s platform, the immersive, voice-controlled environment highlights PNY’s NVIDIA-powered HPC solutions in a lifelike, interactive 3D experience. Visitors can explore server halls, cooling systems, and power infrastructure while receiving real-time operational context. This dynamic demo accelerates customer understanding of PNY’s cutting-edge technologies, transforming complex infrastructure into an approachable and memorable experience.
HPE is redefining data center intelligence with their next-generation Operational Digital Twin. Powered by Smart Spatial, the platform transforms their conceptual Bay Area facility into an immersive, AI-driven environment that seamlessly integrates real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and spatial computing. Users experience intuitive, voice-controlled navigation and gain deep operational insights into power, cooling, and network systems—all within a 4D interface that enables exploration through space and time. This visionary system sets the benchmark for intelligent, autonomous data center operations.

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