Problem Statment

The outage of a data center can lead to crises and financial losses. In today's digital world, almost all organizations, businesses, and hospitals depend on data centers to deliver their services. Therefore, ensuring the security and safety of a data center is important and critical for maintaining the continuous operation of everyday activities .

Factors such as fire, smoke, gas, humidity, and temperature can reduce the uptime and efficiency of a data center . For example, a fire at the Ramses data center in Egypt caused internet connectivity to fall to around 62%, affecting many telecom, banking, and terminal services. Many studies have mentioned the importance of environmental monitoring in data centers. Unstable temperature and humidity can affect the lifespan of the devices. Low humidity can cause static electricity that damages devices, while high humidity can cause corrosion in electrical components, affecting the servers, switches, and routers performance .

Security controls are important in data centers to detect unauthorized access and protect information from potential data loss. However, most existing solutions manage these challenges separately, focusing either on environmental monitoring or on physical security, without providing a system that manages both effectively.

This system addresses this gap by integrating both monitoring data center conditions and security restrictions into a single system, through real time monitoring of factors such as gas, smoke, fire, temperature, and humidity. A custom dashboard is used to display data, along with other system features. The system sends Gmail alerts sent to notify the admins about the system status. The system also includes multiple layers of physical security, such as automatic door control with a keypad and a laser detection system.

Objectives

•  Integrate sensors for smoke, gas, flame, temperature, and humidity, light to ensure safe data center conditions.

•  develop a low cost intelligent environmental and security monitoring system using the ESP32 microcontroller.

• Implement a security layer that uses a keypad and a servo motor for secure door system, along with a laser detection system to prevent unauthorized access during off hours.

• Design a custom dashboard to provide real time sensor data.

• Send Gmail alerts to the admin to notify them about environmental threat or unauthorized access.

• To successfully implement automation processes that enable the system to detect incidents, process data, and respond automatically through buzzer alerts, dashboard notifications, and emails messages.

 Key Features

• Real-time environmental monitoring (temperature, humidity, smoke, gas, flame)

• Physical security using a secure door system along with laser detection.

• Automation triggers alerts and responses when an incident is detected.

• Low-cost implementation suitable for small to medium data centers.