Internet of Things based Physical and Environmental Monitoring System for Data Centers

The most valuable and critical asset in any organization is its data and the data center is the custodian of this data. The data may be related to finance, employee personal information and sensitive organizational business plans. So physical and environmental monitoring of data center is one of the prime objectives of any organization. Failure to detect catastrophic events like fire or any other physical breach may lead to total shutdown of the data center. Important functions of any organization can also be stopped due to malfunctioning of hardware. The existing physical and environmental monitoring system for data centers are combination of many independent systems like access control hardware, video cameras with recording equipment’s, fire detection with alarming units and temperature, humidity, water leakage sensing. These systems are expensive and also hard to manage because of their heterogenous nature. More importantly these systems fail to detect event on time because they are not only dependent on internal resources like power supply and internet connectivity within the data center, but they also need human supervision. The smooth and protected functioning of data center is a challenging task. To bring these objectives in reality, Internet of Things (IoTs) could be among the best option. In this project we have proposed an internet of things based smart physical and environmental monitoring system for data centers. The proposed system will generate security alarms and notifications and will respond to situations when a threat occurs, and the smart object will take some task independently with human supervision.