Patent ID: 8803660

Claim:
A system to provide management of a plurality of electronic elements in a datacenter, the system comprising: a datacenter management system couplable to a wireless network, the datacenter management system to receive information regarding a spatial location of a handheld device within the datacenter, the spatial location of the handheld device being based on one or more position sensors within the handheld device and not requiring direct user input or scanning, the datacenter management system further to guide a user carrying her handheld device in various tasks to be performed and to provide information to the handheld device related to each of the plurality of electronic elements based on a proximity of the handheld device to each of the plurality of electronic elements and not requiring direct user input or scanning, the proximity being determined from the spatial location of the handheld device relative to at least one of the plurality of electronic elements, the datacenter management system is further to receive sensor information from the handheld device regarding positional information including inclination, orientation, and position of the handheld device in relationship to a direction in which the handheld device is pointing relative to at least one of the plurality of electronic elements, the datacenter management system further to provide a display to appear on a screen of the handheld device, the screen to change from a two-dimensional datacenter map showing a number of rack locations along with a relative location of the user of the handheld device within the datacenter and the layout of the floor with various rows between the rack locations, to a three-dimensional row-view display of racks and rows showing the racks that are proximate to the user, based on the user being proximate to at least one of the plurality of electronic elements, and the screen to change to a rack view display of a specific rack displaying the rack unit and the plurality of electronic elements within the specific rack, based on the user being proximate to the specific rack and pointing the handheld device in a direction of the specific rack, the datacenter management system including: a management processor having one or more processors to process information related to each of the plurality of electronic elements; and a database to store information related to each of the plurality of electronic elements.