Patent ID: 7928907

Claim:
A computer center comprising: a plurality of data center components, at least some of which are equipped with one or more transmitters, and each transmitter having a unique identification (ID) associated with it and each data center component having a unique ID different from a unique ID of the transmitters, the transmitters broadcasting its ID together with the ID of the data center component with which it is associated; a plurality of receivers positioned in fixed locations in the computer center, the receivers receiving transmissions from the transmitters; and a central computing resource having information of the positions of each of the receivers and receiving information from the receivers of received transmissions and correlating the received information to deduce by triangulation positional information for the data center components equipped with transmitters, wherein some data center components are equipped with multiple transmitters at different locations within a case of the data center components, said central computing resource determining orientation of data center components equipped with multiple transmitters as well as positional information.