MONITORING AND REVAMPING THE DISTRIBUTED DATA CENTRES USING SELF-POWERED WSN

Deepa Kadkol T

Abstract: The measured values in power per square foot increases considerably as the data center energy densities. The IT industry that has been seen today is growing so widely, vastly and rapidly in terms of the energy consumption in every sector. Conservative estimates also indicate a higher rate or a doubling in the consumption of IT energy as years pass-by. Hence there is an increasing need to address such a scenario. Increasing attention has been driven towards the monitoring of the environmental parameters in data. Such increased interest is due to the need of high energy efficiency of cloud services. This paper presents the design and the characterization of an energy neutral embedded wireless system, prototyped to monitor perpetually environmental parameters in servers and racks. The system has been well equipped by including a module that is meant for the functionality of energy harvesting and this has been based on the thermoelectric Generators. These generators basically convert the heat dissipation from the servers for the specific application. In this paper efforts have been made to present a power conditioning circuit optimized for the designated application beginning and considering primarily from the empirical characterization of the energy harvester. The whole system has been enhanced with several sensors. Validation has been checked and ensured to check for the performance

Keywords: Data Center Energy, Wireless Sensor, Thermo Electric Generators, Embedded Wireless Systems

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0516009