Data Centers and Sentinel AI Security

This technology, as explained in the first iteration of documents, is more than capable of detecting sound wave disturbances, and gas disturbances. What about air temperature disturbances?

Picture a data center. Hundreds of servers are housed in these places, and ensuring that the temperature remains consistent is paramount, as overheating could lead to further problems, like data loss, corruption, and loss of a server, relying on backups, which are costly to restore, and may end up with data loss over the course of time, as less than 1% of server data is backed up weekly. For this reason, many data centers spend a lot of money on HVAC controls. Standard HVAC controls are expensive, and are upwards of $100 per square foot. It should also be noted that these don’t have near the range expected of them for being able to appropriately monitor air temperatures in that sort of environment. This leads to a greater cost associated with them, as there is far more equipment required, and at times, it may not be reliable.

To properly understand how this technology works, let’s imagine a room with a fireplace or heater. Right next to the source of the heat, the air will be far less dense, as when heat is applied, the molecules get excited, and move around more. This creates a density differential that can be detected by a number of different instruments, but this can accurately be detected by Wi-Fi signals, as mentioned and demonstrated in previous case studies. With an AI tool that can parse this data quickly and accurately, you can obtain real-time information about where the air is most dense by the way it interacts based on the temperature of the air surrounding it, and the level of excitement of each molecule of the air.

Now let’s go back to the data center. Let’s say there’s a pocket of air that’s heating up quickly. If there isn’t a person walking through the area to determine that this is the case, regular HVAC controls will be insufficient to detect whether there is a server that is nearing failure. This is usually caused by a server using too much of a resource when they usually wouldn’t require it. Improper resource management is usually the cause, but failing components are to blame frequently as well.

While there are usually tools to be able to determine that this is an issue, it can be a massive undertaking to view all of the logs on the servers, determine which is the culprit, and how much of an issue this is. This technology is also extremely expensive, and requires a very complicated network of sensors, software to allow them to interact, SCADA devices to be able to control the HVAC systems properly from a server, and so on. Our technology can scan the area in a split second, and determine with a level of certainty where the issue is, which server is going to fail, and exactly where the system is located within the data center. A whole heat map would be available of the entire facility, rendering the previously utilized technology entirely obsolete, and driving costs down by a substantial margin. This means that companies no longer have to use a massive amount of devices, complicated infrastructure that is prone to failures, or have nearly the requirements of maintenance and upkeep for them in the first place. This technology is robust, will not be deterred by hacking efforts, and will ensure that proper controls are in place.

Now imagine that there is an HVAC concern in the same data center where heat is getting in, leading to multiple machines running hotter than is normal, and wearing out substantially faster than they’re supposed to. While this is a common occurrence, and it’s an expected cost, any business that operates a data center can benefit from having lower costs and losing substantially less money from an incident like this. A single server heating up the space that it’s in can greatly impact the longevity of the servers around them. While there are many servers in a single rack, those are the ones that are most prone to issues, as they are all contained within the same cabinet. Each of those servers can be between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars each, depending on the equipment, data storage capacity, and more. To replace them, you have to buy something comparable in price, and then pay for the delivery, which is not cheap, and then the labor to ensure it’s put in properly, and spun up according to the specifications of the organization that manages it. This is usually not cheap in the long run, and data centers generally run on profit margins of somewhere near 30%, rendering issues like this very costly to their bottom line.

Once implemented, Sentinel AI Security can provide safety and security, but can also aid in proper handling of HVAC controls to reduce server failure, and ensure safety of any temperature sensitive infrastructure. Implementing a solution like this will allow for the businesses to save money at an impressive rate, and allow for future costs to be reduced substantially. Data centers spend a ton of money on HVAC controls, but Sentinel AI Security can provide the same and better controls for a fraction of the cost.

The list of the capacity of this technology is impressive and endless. We have only scratched the surface, and Sentinel AI Security will provide nothing but the absolute best. We are the future.

Data Centers and Sentinel AI Security