IoT module improves smart environment reliability

Abstract

Many mission critical infrastructure systems directly impact the longevity and the usefulness of the systems they support. Heating and cooling equipment (HVAC) are important support equipment for sensitive industrial systems including manufacturing, IT, high tech testing and measuring equipment. Therefore it is important to monitor functionality and health of this sensitive equipment. Moreover, it is critical to track failures in these systems as they are indicative of future outages of the supported systems. In this paper, we present an IoT based module that monitors the heating cooling element. The module can detect outages in HVAC equipment and notify operators about the sensitive system failures following these events. The module has been deployed to find that it detects the system failures can relay this information to operators to act timely. Therefore, improves the system reliability. Moreover, the module can support logging of HVAC equipment as well as supported sensitive equipment power usage to generate usage patterns and allow operators identify key trends and potential problems.