Method and apparatus for contextual switching between information handling system cooling systems

An ion emitter/collector blower and fan cooling system for an information handling system comprising:

• an ion emitter/collector blower, the ion emitter/collector blower including an ion emitter and an ion collector;
• a cooling fan;
• an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter via a high voltage to ionize gases at the ion emitter/collector blower to create charged ions that generate an airflow along a voltage field to and through the ion collector;
• a hardware embedded controller to execute code instructions of a contextual cooling device switching system with a trained supervised binary or multi-level classification algorithm, the contextual cooling device switching system operating the ion emitter/collector blower and fan based on contextual inputs under which the information handling system is being operated by the user and characterizing workload values input into the trained supervised binary or multi-level classification algorithm;
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• an output of the contextual cooling device switching system including instructions to provide power to the ionic driving circuit and fan motor driver hardware to control power level to the ionic driving circuit and a fan motor driver hardware.

An information handling system comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• a memory device;
• a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the processor and memory device;
• a cooling fan and fan motor operatively coupled to a fan motor driver hardware;
• an ion emitter/collector blower, the ion emitter/collector blower including an ion emitter and an ion collector placed in fluidic series with the cooling fan;
• an ionic driving circuit operatively coupled to the ion emitter via a high voltage to ionize gases at the ion emitter/collector blower to create charged ions that generate an airflow along a voltage field to and through the ion collector;
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• a hardware embedded controller to execute code instructions of a contextual cooling device switching system, the contextual cooling device switching system operating the ion emitter/collector blower and cooling fan based on a plurality of contextual inputs including characterizing workload values under which the information handling system is being operated by a user that are input into a trained machine learning algorithm to generate instructions to control the ionic driving circuit and the fan motor driver hardware, wherein the embedded controller executes the code instructions of the contextual cooling device switching system to maintain a stable internal temperature of the information handling system while minimizing noise generated by operation of the cooling fan.