Microsoft uses wireless sensors to track data centre temperatures
Posted by: Coreix in UncategorizedMicrosoft’s Global Foundation Services division, which oversees the platform the company uses to provide its online services, is deploying a wireless sensor network intended to bring visibility into the firm’s data centres and reduce energy wasted in keeping a large room of IT equipment cooler than necessary.
The system, developed by the company’s Microsoft Research division, was first tested in 2006 and is now being installed at Microsoft’s data centres worldwide. The project, known as Data Centre Genome, began with testing a few sensors in a Microsoft data centre in 2006. Today, it amounts to more than 700 sensors that the company has been gradually installing, tracking temperatures on individual racks and shelves within its data centres worldwide, thus allowing Microsoft to see the temperature or humidity around each rack of servers.
Source: RFID Journal
Full article here
Entries (RSS)