Information Technology Asset Location Using Visual Detectors
A technology of physical assets and visual output, applied in the field of information technology asset positioning mechanism, which can solve the problems of large labor and material costs, manual scanning and tracking of IT assets, error-prone and outdated, etc.
Active Publication Date: 2014-08-06
IBM CORP
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However, with this solution, all IT assets need to have their own associated RFID tags, and these tags must be manually read by the corresponding RFID readers
This results in substantial labor and material costs associated with these operations
In addition, manual scanning and tracking of IT assets is error-prone due to the impact of human error, and location information collected through manual means is often out of date relative to the actual current IT asset location
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[0019] Exemplary embodiments provide mechanisms for locating assets such as information technology (IT) assets or other types of assets in an organization's physical locations, including, for example, data centers, Office building or other physical location. The mechanisms of the exemplary embodiments utilize visual detectors to identify asset locations without having to deploy a separate identification device connected or associated with the asset. Instead, when a visual detector is in place to detect the presence of an asset, the mechanism of the exemplary embodiments notifies the visual detector of the presence of the asset using existing display elements of the asset, the housing or rack the asset is in, etc., more hereinafter. This is described in detail. These vision detectors may be located on portable / mobile devices, such as automated robotic devices, user-operated portable handheld devices, and the like. Also, the visual detectors may be fixed, but repositionable to...
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Mechanisms are provided for determining the physical location of a physical asset in a physical area. A plurality of physical assets are controlled to cause each physical asset to output a visual output pattern on visual output elements of the physical asset. An image of a target physical asset is captured that has the current state of the visual output elements. An identification of the target physical asset is determined based on the current state of the visual output elements. A physical location of the target physical asset is determined based on a physical location of the image capture device when the image was captured. Location data identifying the determined physical location of the target physical asset is stored in an asset database in association with configuration information for the physical asset.
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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to improved data processing apparatus and methods, and more particularly, the present invention relates to information technology asset location mechanisms using visual detectors. Background technique [0002] With the continuous miniaturization of information technology (IT) equipment, data centers and large organizations today contain more IT assets, such as storage systems, computing equipment, communication equipment, etc., than ever before. For example, a large data center can house hundreds of thousands of physical IT assets. A common problem in data centers and large organizations is tracking the exact location of all these IT assets. [0003] One solution for tracking the location of IT assets in data centers and large organizations is to use passive or active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on the IT assets and then manually scan the RFID tags with an RFID reader. However, with this solution...
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IPC IPC(8): G06K9/00G06K9/20G06Q10/06
CPCG06Q10/087G06V20/10
Inventor R·J·卡利奥J·H·康奈尔二世M·J·弗里索拉C·伊什奇J·O·科帕尔特J·伦克纳S·K·麦金托什I·I·莫霍莫德J·C·尼尔森J·W·托森
Owner IBM CORP