Data centre monitoring and alerting system using WSN

Wireless sensor networks have become more popular in the domains like environmental sensing, health monitoring, home and building automation, smart energy, green computing etc. The application of wireless sensor networks can be extended for the effective monitoring of the data centre environment. Almost all the data centres are equipped with high end servers, data storage equipments which must be protected against cooling failures by providing necessary monitoring tools and alerting mechanism to the administrators. It is therefore very essential to design a system that monitors and alerts about the environmental conditions of the data centres. The work carried out to design an effective data centre monitoring system has been discussed in this paper. This paper discusses both hardware and software development aspects to achieve the desired goal. The wireless personal area network has been established in the data centres using low power wireless sensor motes which are powered by Zigbee protocol and Zigbee to internet gateway system. This will enable the monitoring of data centre environmental parameters such as temperature and the relative humidity over the internet. This system also has a SMS/e-mail based alerting provision whenever the sensed parameters go beyond the preset threshold values.