Patent ID: 8321057

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: detecting a change in a condition that affects a thermal environment of a bounded space having multiple hardware devices that provide data access services, the bounded space having an environmental control system that manages the thermal environment of the bounded space, the multiple hardware devices further being part of an environmental event network comprising a master node that manages network-wide event responses, where the multiple hardware devices comprise a plurality of slave nodes of the environmental event network that integrates local conditions into the environmental event network; and exchanging an event message between the master node and a first slave node of the plurality of slave nodes to indicate the condition, and to cause an event message recipient to perform an operation to adjust the thermal environment of the bounded space in response to the event message, wherein the first slave node comprises a daemon to create a slave event message in response to the local conditions and to monitor for a master event message indicating a performance adjustment sent from the master node.