Monitoramento de temperatura e umidade em racks simples de telecomunicação com plataforma arduino

Abstract

Telecommunications racks, where network equipment is installed, are most often isolated in rooms with no circulation of people, and are subject to the most diverse variations in temperature and humidity, making it, according to the user manuals. manufacturers, the useful life of this equipment is likely to be reduced, and consequently, depending on the degree of this variation, it may harm the network services (internet and intranet) that depend on these devices. It was experiencing one of these humidity variations, which damaged a switch, stopping some hospital web services, that's where the idea for solving this problem came from. The work presented described the steps taken to build a low-cost solution for monitoring temperature and humidity, aimed at small companies or institutions that do not have a higher financial capital, to purchase a more robust solution. Arduino was used as a base, which is an open-source electronic prototyping platform with flexible and easy to use hardware and software, together with a sensor and an ethernet shield. The solution was tested in a production environment, installed in a simple telecommunication rack. The monitoring was done through the Zabbix software, which is a distributed and Open Source monitoring tool, which received and stored the information, generating alerts to users when one of these quantities exceeded the established limits, thus, watching the monitored environment and observing if the environmental conditions are adequate for the proper functioning of the equipment installed in the rack. At the end of the test in the production environment, the solution proved to be efficient, fulfilling the objective of the project, which would be a cheap and effective solution, developed using the concepts and technologies of the Arduino platform.