Old World Industries (OWI), a leading manufacturer of coolant and heat transfer solutions, has formed a strategic partnership with Integrity Systems, a critical infrastructure monitoring company.
The partnership will combine coolant expertise with real-time monitoring, predictive analytics and intelligent diagnostics for data centre cooling systems.
OWI is best known for its brands of PEAK and Thermal Charge Heat Transfer Fluids.
As AI and other high-density computing workloads place increasing demands on data centre infrastructure, operators need greater visibility into the real-time health and performance of their cooling systems.
Any downtime or disruptions to the system can have significant operational and financial consequences, making proactive monitoring and maintenance critical for data centre operators.
Periodic laboratory testing provides important point-in-time information about coolant condition; the OWI-Integrity Systems partnership is designed to complement that testing with continuous field monitoring that can alert operators of changing cooling-loop conditions between testing intervals.
OWI CEO, Greg Noethlich said unscheduled downtime remains one of the most expensive risks facing data centre operators today.
"This partnership helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to predictive maintenance, helping avoid the substantial costs associated with unexpected system failures," he said.
Integrity Systems' real-time industrial monitoring, predictive analytics and intelligent diagnostics capabilities are designed to work alongside existing controls and monitoring systems.
Its platform brings together sensor data, operating context, maintenance history and operator knowledge to help identify developing problems and guide maintenance decisions.
Integrity Systems CEO, Brett Wade, said Integrity Systems was created to close the gap between what industrial operators need and what predictive monitoring actually delivers.
"By combining continuous field monitoring with OWI's coolant expertise, the partnership delivers ongoing visibility into coolant performance, helping operators make informed maintenance decisions based on real-time operating conditions," Wade said.
The collaboration also creates an opportunity to generate additional real-world operating data on coolant performance. Those insights can help inform future product validation and development while giving operators greater context about cooling system conditions in live environments.
Integrity Systems CTO, Connor Wooley, said AI's future will be shaped not only by the size of the data centres behind it, but by the ability to deploy increasing levels of intelligence at the edge.
"Our goal is to lead in that space by delivering AI where work is performed and critical decisions are made. Our agentic harness is designed to turn deep analysis and verified operating experience into specialized AI that runs locally," Wooley said.
"With OWI, we're applying that approach to coolant and cooling-system health, helping operators understand what is changing, why it matters, and when to act. But our vision extends further, an operating system for intelligent infrastructure that can carry that capability beyond continuous human reach, from remote industrial environments to space.
"The goal is intelligence that can operate where people cannot always be, without depending on a distant data centre for every decision."