METHOD FOR CREATING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR ON A POWER DISTRIBUTION UNIT

• US 20130046410A1
• Filed: 08/18/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cyberpower Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Cyberpower Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: HSIEH, Hung-Ming, LIU, Hsien-Hsun, CHIEN, Hung-Chun, CHUANG, Wen-Shuo
• Application Number:
  US13/212,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20130046410A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/277
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20836 Thermal management, e.g. server temperature control

Abstract

A method for creating virtual environmental sensor on a power distribution unit is executed by a power distribution unit and has steps of connecting to a network and at least one power-consuming device, searching all environmental sensors through the network, receiving environmental condition messages sent from each environmental sensor, presenting at least one environmental condition range to determine if the environmental condition messages sent from each environmental sensor are out of one of the at least one environmental condition range, and powering on or off a corresponding power-consuming device when each environmental condition message is out of a corresponding environmental condition range. Using the method can create remote environmental sensors networked with the PDU and solve the expansion restriction, spatial limitation and intractable wiring arising from the environmental sensor embedded in the conventional PDU in the form of hardware.

Claims

1. A method for creating virtual environmental sensor on a power distribution unit executed by a power distribution unit and comprising steps of:

connecting to a network and at least one power-consuming device;

searching all environmental sensors connected to the network and mapping each environmental sensor to one of the at least one power-consuming device;

receiving environmental condition messages sent from each environmental sensor;

presenting at least one environmental condition range to determine if the environmental condition messages sent from each environmental sensor are out of one of the at least one environmental condition range; and

powering on or off the power consuming device corresponding to the environmental sensor sending the environmental condition message when each environmental condition message is out of a corresponding environmental condition range.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power distribution unit provides a web page for multiple computers to connect with and browse the web page through the network, and the web page has:

a new equipment tab having a new equipment field for inputting identification information of a new environmental sensor;

an equipment list tab listing the environmental sensors connected with the power distribution unit; and

a setting tab having a setting column for respectively setting the at least one temperature range and for determining if each environmental condition message is out of a corresponding temperature range.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the new equipment tab further has an equipment name field for entering a name of a new environmental sensor.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the identification information is an IP address, a MAC address or a serial number of the new environmental sensor.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the setting tab has a table having the setting column and further having an equipment name column and a power socket number column.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the table further has an equipment location column and a remark column.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.

9. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.

10. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.

11. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.

12. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the environmental sensor is a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a smoke detector or a door sensor.