Building a WSN infrastructure with COTS components for the thermal monitoring of datacenters

Abstract

Our society has become ever more dependent on large datacenters. Search engines, e-commerce and cloud computing are just some of the broadly used services that rely on large scale datacenters. Datacenter managers are reluctant to non-functional changes on the facilities of a perfectly operational installation as failures can be very expensive. Therefore, one of the big challenges of green computing is how to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of such systems without compromising the business. In this work, we propose a thermal monitoring tool for datacenters which is based on a WSN composed of ready-to-use modules. This tool provides a better understanding of the thermal behavior of datacenters and can help datacenter managers, for example, to manually adjust the cooling system in order to avoid energy waste and reduce cost. There is very low intrusiveness to the server facilities, as the tool is 100% independent of the server operability and requires only the setup of small wireless and battery powered sensors. Our tool was implemented and tested on a real datacenter in order to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

A Cooja-Based Tool for Coverage and Lifetime Evaluation in an In-Building Sensor Network

“…In the WSN-Maintain simulation with Cooja, we use datasets from five sensor network deployments: a data centre room at the Informatics Institute at Federal Fluminense University in 2013 (TMON) [20], the ground floor and first floor of the Nimbus building at the Cork Institute of Technology in 2013 (CIT-1 and CIT-G) and the second floor and third floor of the Strata Conference building in New York that was held in 2012 (NY-2 and NY-3) [21]. We chose these deployments as we require dense networks for our simulation, where some rooms must have multiple sensor nodes, as to be expected in large buildings.…”

“…We will firstly present the simulation results for the one-room deployment, i.e., the data centre room at the Informatics Institute at Federal Fluminense University [20]. The TMON deployment is very dense, and we expect to get a very good result in lifetime improvement.…”

Air ventilation system for server room security using Arduino

“…The most common practice for maintaining the resources for server, is by setting the proper cooling system operation to avoid thermal damages to the server, that will translate the thermal inefficiency to energy inefficiency, thus, increasing the costs and the environmental impact [4]. For this research, the other function to be installed in the server room is ventilation machine.…”