Green data center with IoT sensing and cloud-assisted smart temperature control system

Abstract

With the growing shortage of energy around the world, energy efficiency is one of the most important considerations for a data center. In this paper, we propose a green data center air conditioning system assisted by cloud techniques, which consists of two subsystems: a data center air conditioning system and a cloud management platform. The data center air conditioning system includes environment monitoring, air conditioning, ventilation and temperature control, whereas the cloud platform provides data storage and analysis to support upper-layer applications. Moreover, the detailed design and implementation are presented, including the dispatch algorithm for the temperature control, topological structure of the sensor network, and framework for the environment monitoring node. A feasibility evaluation is used to verify that the proposed system can significantly reduce the data center energy consumption without degradation in the cooling performance.