Datacenter Surveillance System

Author

Kaseke, Panashe W

Title

Datacenter Surveillance System

Abstract

Recently the has been a massive change in the technological world, enterprises have been migrating from traditional way of acquiring ICT infrastructure to clouding services which are powered by datacenters. This resulted in a significant increase in the number of datacenters around the world and they have become the most energy consuming facilities. Different scholars conducted researches and highlighted that these energy consumptions can be reduced by using free cooling in datacenters and raising the datacenter operating temperatures. These methods have however resulted in increased rate of occurrence of hotspots in datacenters, giving birth to the agent need for a mechanism to quickly detect hotspot and reduce their impact to be put in place. This research focuses on the development of an Arduino based datacenter surveillance system written in C and C++ that monitors the temperature and humidity levels as well as protecting the equipment. The system was successfully developed and it is recommended that before deploying it technicians must first do CFD calculations in order to account for temperature variation as well as installing DHT11 in every rack.

Date

2023

Publisher

BUSE

Keywords

Datacenter

Surveillance System

Supervisor

N/A