Patent ID: 8903551

Claim:
A system for evaluating an environmental event in a data center, the system comprising: multiple movable sensors for measuring an environmental parameter associated with the environmental event; a measurement system for receiving outputs of the multiple movable sensors and generating measurement values of the environmental parameter, wherein the measurement system detects the environmental event from the measurement values; a controller for moving the multiple movable sensors in response to the measurement system detecting the environmental event to increase a spatial resolution of the measurement values in a region of the data center associated with the event; and a movable device to which one or more of the multiple movable sensors is affixed, wherein the movable device is controlled by the controller to move the movable device proximate to the region of the data center to increase the spatial resolution of the measurement values, wherein the movable device is movable along at least one aisle of the data center and has a plurality of the multiple movable sensors distributed along a movable boom extending in first axis, wherein the movable boom is movable along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, wherein the controller further moves the movable boom in the second axis, whereby the measurement system receives a first distribution of the measurement values along the first axis from the plurality of the multiple movable sensors and determines a second distribution of the measurement values along the second axis as the controller moves the movable boom.