智慧型機房監控系統之溫控模組設計

The purpose of this project to develop an intelligent thermal
control module to work with a base station monitoring system. The
collaborating company of this project, the Gemnitech is a
professional monitoring system supplier. Its major clients are the
mobile phone service companies, such as China Telecom, Taiwan
Mobile and so on. The deployment of GSM as well as the coming 3G
service require a great number of base stations implemented across
the service area. Gemnitech has been in this business since 1994 and
has been quite successful in taking a handsome share of the market.
However, it is the current goal of Gemnitech to develop an intelligent
monitoring system. Among all the functions the monitoring system is
going to provide, thermal control is a critical one.
In this project, an intelligent fuzzy rule-based thermal controller
will be designed and implemented. Usually, the thermal control in a
base station is accomplished by simple open-loop schedule control, or
more advanced PID control. The performance of such systems are
never optimal in any sense. The issues of energy efficiency and
system reliability can be greatly enhances if an intelligent control
algorithm is devised.
It is also quite common that two air-conditioners be adopted in
the base station thermal control system. However, the major
function of such an implementation is merely to release the load into
two machines instead of one. More intelligent considerations can fit
into such a situation by designing an intelligent load dispatching
system, such that not only the two machines take turns, but also to
include factors such the machine life and machine efficiency. The
thermal control module will also be made into boards so that a real
prototype can be made and check to see if the expected performance
can be achieved.