Patent ID: 7739073

Claim:
A tangibly embodied computer program product for measuring physical characteristics within a data center, the tangibly embodied computer program product comprising: a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: contemporaneously measuring by a plurality of sensors at least one physical characteristic of an environment within the data center, the plurality of sensors being located on a framework, the plurality of sensors collectively defining one three-dimensional unit cell at the framework within the data center; storing the measurements of the at least one physical characteristic on a data-storage device; moving the framework through the data center at a set of defined incremental locations corresponding to one or more dimensions of the one three-dimensional unit cell such that the sensors are located at increments of the one three-dimensional unit cell within the data center to measure the at least one physical characteristic of the environment; storing, based on moving the framework, location information of the framework within the data center on the data-storage device, wherein the location information corresponds to the set of defined incremental locations.