Server rooms and corporate mini data centers suffer from silent failures: thermal drift outside the ASHRAE A1 range, inadequate humidity levels, undetected physical access, and impacts/vibrations that can compromise sensitive hardware. Commercial DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) solutions are expensive and rarely accessible to academic labs, small companies, or experimental setups.
The solution — Sentinel.DC
Sentinel.DC is a low-cost embedded system that combines environmental monitoring, people counting, and vibration detection on a single platform, with cloud synchronization via Firebase Realtime Database and a responsive web dashboard.
The goal is simple: give operators a clear, real-time view of what is happening inside the server room — temperature, humidity, who entered/left, and whether anything was bumped or moved — without relying on expensive proprietary infrastructure.
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