A tele-operative RMMT system facilitating the management of cooling and energy in data centers

Abstract

This paper presents a tele-operative robotic mobile measurement technique for collecting temperature data in data centers. It provides highly effective data support to the analysis of data center thermal profiles, and plays an active role in improving data center cooling and energy efficiencies. With this technique, a human operator controls the navigation of the tele-operative mobile measurement platform and triggers the data acquisition operation through a wirelessly connected console. Comparing with traditional manual operation, it largely reduces the intensity of human labor and improves the operational efficiency. The effectiveness of the proposed technique has been verified through a demonstrative data scanning in a real data center environment. © 2010 IEEE.