Robotics based Solution for Data Center E-Monitoring

Abstract

In this paper, we present a Cloud Robotics (CR) platform for performing environmental monitoring in data centers. Due to the high energy consumption, the need of monitoring for controlling air temperature in each data center rooms has been the critical subject in recent years. This paper presents a cloud robotics platform based on the Robot Operating System (ROS), in which a mobile robot is able to autonomously navigate using a previously created map in a data center room for accurate monitoring of critical measurements, localize therein and execute a list of measurements at different locations, which are provided by the user via a Graphical User Interface(GUI). This paper discusses the implementation and simulated results during an experimental scenario.