Patent ID: 7924663

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a remote monitoring device to fit at least one of a plurality of storage locations for storage media and handling mechanisms for the storage media, the storage location and the handling mechanisms being part of a media storage library; a plurality of monitoring devices within the remote monitoring device, wherein a first monitoring device of the plurality of monitoring devices obtains from the media storage library at least one environmental measurement of an environmental condition within the media storage library and a second monitoring device of the plurality of monitoring devices obtains images of components in the media storage library; a processor encoded with data collection instructions to dynamically activate the first monitoring device to obtain the at least one environmental measurement and to dynamically activate second monitoring device to obtain the images; and a communication transmitter within the remote monitoring device and communicatively coupled to the plurality of monitoring devices to transmit at least one of data signals representing the at least one of environmental measurement and images of the components in the media storage library.