Industries, Data Centers
Credibility
Data centers are among the most demanding critical infrastructure environments in the world. Tier IV facilities target roughly 99.995% availability, and meeting that standard depends on backup generation that starts, transfers, and stabilizes on the timeline the plant design allows, seconds for a diesel generator, minutes for a gas turbine, under control architectures that are redundant, monitored, and proven before they ever support a live data hall.
Innova Technologies has spent more than 50 years engineering precision control systems for rotating machinery in environments where failure is not acceptable: offshore platforms, North Slope prime-generation facilities, peaking power stations, and other critical facilities. Data centers demand even more, higher availability targets and, often, additional redundancy, so we apply that engineering discipline directly to the critical asset: the backup generators. We design generator control, paralleling, protection, and monitoring for continuous availability, and we integrate with the surrounding electrical systems the facility depends on.
There is no off-the-shelf controller for a gas turbine generator, and no two data center power plants share the same topology. We engineer generator control systems built to the specific machines, redundancy architecture, and operational requirements of your facility, from a single-generator edge site to a multi-megawatt hyperscale campus, and we integrate with the balance of the facility’s systems as needed.
Applications
Diesel and gas generator start sequencing, load transfer timing, and ATS coordination for standby power systems. Our control systems manage the complete utility-to-generator transfer sequence, from outage detection through generator run-up, voltage and frequency qualification, transfer switching, and load acceptance, to meet project-specific performance requirements, including NFPA 110 where applicable, while supporting the high-availability objectives of Tier III and Tier IV data center power infrastructure.
Integration of power quality meters, protective relays, generator controllers, UPS systems, switchgear, and intelligent electrical devices into a unified HMI, SCADA, or plant DCS. Our automation provides operators with real-time visibility of electrical system status, power quality measurements, equipment loading, and alarms while enabling custom control strategies such as load shedding, generator dispatch, and demand-based control.
Integrated fire water pump control with automatic start on demand, test sequencing, and status reporting, engineered to support NFPA 20 and listed fire pump controllers.
Multi-generator synchronization, real and reactive load sharing, and bus tie control for facilities with N+1 or N+2 redundant backup power plants. We develop custom paralleling schemes that handle planned maintenance offlines, load bank testing, and seamless re-integration of generators returning from service, without interrupting facility power.
Day tank level monitoring, transfer pump control, bulk fuel inventory monitoring, and leak detection integration for emergency generator fuel systems. Our automation coordinates automatic fuel transfers, monitors fuel system status, and provides centralized alarming, historical trending, and event logging to support reliable operation and facility recordkeeping.
We focus on the generation assets and do not provide cooling tower, chiller plant, or CRAH/CRAC control. Where a project requires it, we integrate our generator controls with the facility's existing cooling and mechanical systems so operators retain unified visibility.
Innova Technologies focuses on the generation assets and does not provide cooling tower, chiller plant, or CRAH/CRAC control. Where a project requires it, we integrate our generator controls with the facility’s existing cooling and mechanical systems so operators retain unified visibility.
Beyond the core generation controls, Innova Technologies can coordinate with the surrounding critical-power infrastructure the facility depends on: UPS systems, static transfer switches and bypass equipment; pre-action and clean-agent fire suppression interfaces (generator shutdown, damper, and HVAC sequencing); and Building Management Systems (BACnet, Modbus TCP, SNMP, REST API; Siemens Desigo, Johnson Controls Metasys, Schneider EcoStruxure, or custom DCIM). These are systems we can integrate with or add to the generator control scope, not stand-alone offerings.
Control-network segmentation, secure remote access, firewalls, and system hardening for the standby-power control system, an OT-security scope that is increasingly relevant for data-center operators protecting critical power controls from network-borne risk.
Interface with or modernization of automatic voltage regulation and excitation systems for the backup generators, supporting reactive power control, power factor management, and terminal voltage regulation across OEM and third-party excitation platforms.
Coordination with numerical relay protection for the generation assets, functions such as overcurrent, differential, loss-of-field, and reverse power, so control-system trip commands are coordinated with protection for safe, fast fault isolation. We can interface with existing protection or modernize it as part of the scope.
Secure control system architecture, network segmentation between IT and OT environments, role-based access control, secure remote access, and monitoring of critical automation networks. We design and integrate control system networks that meet the customer’s cybersecurity requirements and support industry standards for critical infrastructure, providing secure connectivity between generator controls, electrical systems, and enterprise networks. Data centers face acute OT cybersecurity exposure, the control systems that manage backup power are high-value targets, and a successful attack can cause the exact infrastructure failure they were designed to prevent.
Where We Work
Automated load-bank test sequencing to exercise standby plant and verify capacity.
Engineering Depth
Data center facilities teams operate complex hybrid environments, a mix of legacy BMS platforms, modern DCIM tools, proprietary UPS management systems, and custom NOC dashboards. The last thing a data center operator needs is a backup power control system that can only communicate with one of them.
Innova Technologies develops its control systems using IEC 61131-3-compliant programming practices and open industrial communication protocols, BACnet, Modbus TCP, SNMP, DNP3, Ethernet/IP, Profinet, OPC-UA, and others, to integrate with any facility management platform. We don’t lock you into a proprietary ecosystem. If you change your DCIM vendor in five years, your generator control system doesn’t need to change with it. The application programs, configuration documentation, and hardware specifications are open, documented, and maintainable, and they belong to you.
Innova Technologies control systems continuously monitor and log generator health data, exercise-cycle performance, fuel consumption rate, coolant temperature response, and governor response time, and integrate that information into the facility’s SCADA, HMI, and historian.
We provide fixed-setpoint monitoring, alarming, and trend data that give facilities teams clear visibility into generator condition and support their maintenance planning. We do not perform predictive analysis; we gather and present the data the customer’s team relies on to make those decisions.
Every Innova Technologies data center generation control system is validated in a Full-Function FAT before shipment. As with our turbine and generator projects, we simulate the full range of field inputs and outputs to exercise generator start and load-transfer sequences, ATS coordination, operating modes, alarms, and protective shutdowns against the actual control hardware. We can also simulate component failures to test the redundancy and availability of the control architecture. Facility engineering teams attend the FAT and direct the test scenarios: we don’t ship until every sequence in the acceptance-test procedure has been witnessed and signed off. We simulate the control system’s field I/O and sequences, not grid dynamics, load rejection, or process behavior; this is not a hardware-in-the-loop test.
We fully document the FAT and deliver that documentation as a formal project deliverable. Tier certification itself requires far more than a control-system FAT, and any certification or dealings with the Uptime Institute are handled by the customer: we design to what the customer specifies and provide the FAT records that support their own documentation efforts.
Trusted Worldwide
“I have found Petrotech [now Innova Technologies] to be very knowledgeable about any system that we have asked them to build and install for us. They have a complete program that includes engineering, design and manufacturing, customer involvement in factory acceptance tests, on-site installation and startup support, documentation support and after-installation technical support 24 hours a day. Petrotech has provided us with what we needed, when we needed it and gave it to us the way we wanted it.”
Engineering commitment
Independent control for every turbine class.
Anti-surge, loadshare, performance, and capacity control.
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A MESSAGE FROM JOHN KAZOUR, CEO
To our customers and partners,
For more than 50 years, our team has helped customers keep critical operations running. We built our reputation as Petrotech by taking responsibility for control systems on important rotating machinery.
As more industries came to us with similar challenges across power generation, compression, and hydro applications, our engineering team kept finding ways to solve them. Eventually, the business outgrew the Petrotech name.
We are entering our next chapter as Innova Technologies. The new name reflects the full scope of our work as a rotating machinery control systems specialist. We engineer controls around the machine, deliver complete projects from design through commissioning, and provide support that stays with the problem until it is solved.
Our name is changing, but the people, engineering experience, and commitment behind the work continue. Our responsibility to active projects and installed systems carries forward under the Innova Technologies name. Your current contacts remain the right place to start, and we will communicate directly if an administrative record requires an update.
We appreciate the trust you have placed in us over the decades, and we look forward to continuing that work as Innova Technologies.
CEO, Innova Technologies
