Power management of edge devices to maintain minimum temperature compliance

An information handling system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing code that when executed causes the processor to perform operations including:
• monitoring the information handling system to detect whether a current temperature of the information handling system is below a minimum system temperature threshold;
• if the current temperature is below the minimum system temperature threshold, then determining whether the information handling system includes a heater;
• if a current system workload of the information handling system is greater than a maximum system workload threshold and the heater is healthy, then using the heater to increase the current temperature of the information handling system to the minimum system temperature threshold;
• if the current system workload of the information handling system is less than the maximum system workload threshold and the heater is healthy, then determining an additional workload according to the maximum system workload threshold;
• if the current system workload of the information handling system with the additional workload is less than the maximum system workload threshold, then determining a first power usage of the heater to address a deviance of a current system temperature from the minimum system temperature threshold and a second power usage of the additional workload to address the deviance of the current system temperature from the minimum system temperature threshold;
• and
• turning on the heater and load the additional workload based on the first power usage and the second power usage respectively, wherein the first power usage and the second power usage is less than a maximum system power workload.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions that are executable to perform operations comprising:

• monitoring an information handling system to detect whether a current temperature of the information handling system is below a minimum system temperature threshold;
• if the current temperature is below the minimum system temperature threshold, then determining whether the information handling system includes a heater;
• if a current system workload of the information handling system is greater than a maximum system workload threshold and the heater is healthy, then using the heater to increase the current temperature of the information handling system to the minimum system temperature threshold;
• if the current system workload of the information handling system is less than the maximum system workload threshold and the heater is healthy, then determining an additional workload according to the maximum system workload threshold;
• if the current system workload of the information handling system with the additional workload is less than the maximum system workload threshold, then determining a first power usage of the heater to address a deviance of a current system temperature from the minimum system temperature threshold and a second power usage of the additional workload to address the deviance of the current system temperature from the minimum system temperature threshold;
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• turning on the heater and load the additional workload based on the first power usage and the second power usage respectively, wherein the first power usage and the second power usage is less than a maximum system power workload.