CN116577835A - Equipment in-place and running state monitoring system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a device in-place and running state monitoring system, which comprises: the motion assembly is arranged on the cabinet, the output end of the motion assembly is suitable for reciprocating motion in the vertical direction and the transverse direction, and the motion range of the output end covers all U positions in the cabinet; the visual sensor is arranged at the output end of the motion assembly, the receiving end of the visual sensor faces to the front opening of the equipment bin, and the visual sensor is suitable for being driven by the motion assembly to sweep all the equipment bins in sequence to obtain visual information corresponding to the equipment bins and generate visual signals corresponding to the equipment bins one by one according to the visual information; the control module is used for controlling the motion assembly and the visual sensor to operate, is suitable for receiving visual signals transmitted by the visual sensor, and judges the equipment in the equipment bin corresponding to the visual signals according to the visual signals; the monitoring system can accurately judge the in-place condition of the equipment and monitor the running state of the equipment.

Description

Equipment in-place and running state monitoring system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of cabinet U-bit management, in particular to a device in-place and running state monitoring system.

Background

At present, with the rapid development of internet business, the whole scale of a data center is increasingly enlarged, and the number of IT equipment is continuously increased. Meanwhile, the introduction of the cloud environment architecture also expands the demand of the equipment to a certain extent, so that the number of the equipment of the data center is developed from thousands of early days to tens of thousands of the current days, and the number of the future equipment can reach hundreds of thousands, so that the management of the equipment becomes particularly important. In equipment resource management, equipment position information is required to be accurate as one of the factors, and the reasons mainly comprise the following points: firstly, equipment maintenance needs to acquire the equipment position timely and accurately, equipment position information is inaccurate and is easy to interfere equipment maintenance, and production events are caused; second, the assignment of the device location and the adjustment of the device migration location of the environment setup also depend on the accuracy of the existing device location information; thirdly, the analysis of performance capacity such as the space utilization rate of a machine room and the like also depends on the accuracy of the equipment position information; fourth, the accuracy of the location information of the equipment asset is also a basic guarantee for realizing intelligent operation and maintenance.

Currently, asset management in a rack of a data center, that is, management of U bits in the rack generally adopts a manual operation manner, for example, currently, there is a U bit management product, mainly including equally spaced strip-shaped U bit management modules with N (N is a rack type, 42U racks, n=42) U bit heights, which are installed beside a rack column and in one-to-one correspondence with each U bit height of a rack frame. When the equipment is put on or taken off the shelf, the electronic tag is triggered by a person or a key is used for triggering the equipment to be taken as an up-and-down signal for the controller to record. According to different triggering means, the U-bit management modules are mainly divided into two types: a is mainly based on the hard PCB, form a standard 42U cabinet management module by 7 sections of 6U modules, and each U needs to be matched with an electronic tag for use, the U bit has equipment occupation, then paste the electronic tag on the U bit corresponding to U bit of the U bit management module, the U bit is idle, the corresponding U bit tag is removed if no equipment occupation; the other is the flexible board, 42U adopts soft gum cover integrated structure, and corresponds to there is the button on each U position, occupies or idle suggestion to U position through pressing the button, presses once, indicates that U position has equipment to occupy, presses once again, indicates that U position is idle, does not have equipment to occupy.

The management mode obviously cannot complete full-automatic detection, the equipment on-rack and off-rack need to be manually intervened, and misoperation or missing operation easily occurs during on-site operation.

Therefore, in the prior art, whether the equipment is in place or not is monitored by a robot inspection mode, but in actual use, the cabinet is provided with the cabinet door, and the cabinet door is generally a mesh door, so that when the robot inspects, whether the equipment is in place or not and the current running state of the equipment cannot be accurately judged due to the influence of the light transmittance of the mesh door.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects or problems in the background art and provide a device in-place and running state monitoring system which can accurately judge the in-place condition of the device and monitor the running state of the device.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme:

the equipment in-place and running state monitoring system is used for monitoring in-place and running states of equipment in a cabinet, wherein a plurality of U-shaped positions are vertically distributed on the cabinet, at least one equipment bin for the equipment to be inserted is transversely distributed on each U-shaped position, a display part which is suitable for changing display contents according to the running state of the equipment is arranged on the front face of the equipment, and the front face of the equipment is exposed out of a front face opening of the equipment bin after the equipment is inserted into the equipment bin; the monitoring system includes: the motion assembly is arranged on the cabinet, the output end of the motion assembly is suitable for reciprocating motion in the vertical direction and the transverse direction, and the motion range of the output end covers all U positions in the cabinet; the visual sensor is arranged at the output end of the motion assembly, the receiving end of the visual sensor faces to the front opening of the equipment bin, and the visual sensor is suitable for being driven by the motion assembly to sweep each equipment bin in sequence to obtain visual information corresponding to the equipment bin, and visual signals corresponding to the equipment bins one by one are generated according to the visual information; and the control module is used for controlling the motion assembly and the visual sensor to operate, and is suitable for receiving the visual signal transmitted by the visual sensor and judging the equipment in the equipment bin corresponding to the visual signal and the equipment operation state according to the visual signal.

Further, the control module is suitable for controlling the motion assembly to drive the visual sensor to stay at the position corresponding to each equipment bin for a preset period.

Further, the visual sensor has a visual receiving range corresponding to at least the position of the display portion on the equipment when the equipment is placed in the equipment bin at the stop position corresponding to each equipment bin.

Further, the control module is adapted to control the movement assembly to drive the vision sensor to start from the corner of the cabinet, and repeat the process of moving from one end of the U to the other end of the U and moving from the end to the next adjacent U vertically until the vision sensor sweeps all U in the cabinet.

Further, the vision sensor generates a corresponding vision signal after acquiring the vision information of each equipment bin and transmits the vision signal to the control module in real time, and the control module judges the equipment in the equipment bin corresponding to the vision signal and the equipment running state in real time according to the received vision signal and the current stay position of the vision sensor.

Further, when the color information expressed by the received visual signals is black, the control module judges that no equipment exists in the corresponding equipment bin; when the color information expressed by the received visual signal is the color of which the running state of the equipment is normal, judging that the corresponding equipment bin has equipment in place and the running state is normal; when the color information expressed by the received visual signals is the abnormal color of the running state of the equipment, the corresponding equipment bin is judged to be in place and the running state of the equipment is abnormal.

Further, the motion assembly comprises a vertical motion module and a horizontal motion module; the vertical movement module comprises a vertical screw driving unit and a vertical sliding rail extending vertically along the cabinet; the transverse driving module comprises a transverse screw driving unit and a transverse sliding rail extending transversely along the cabinet; the transverse driving module is driven by the vertical screw driving unit to reciprocate along the extending direction of the vertical sliding rail; the visual sensor is driven by the transverse screw driving unit to reciprocate along the extending direction of the transverse sliding rail.

Further, in the vertical movement module, the vertical screw driving unit and the vertical sliding rail are respectively arranged at two lateral sides of the front surface of the cabinet; the vertical screw driving unit comprises a vertical screw, a vertical driving motor and a vertical screw fixing piece, wherein the vertical screw fixing piece and the vertical driving motor are fixedly arranged on the cabinet, one end of the vertical screw is rotatably arranged on the vertical fixing piece, and the other end of the vertical screw is connected with the output end of the vertical driving motor.

Further, in the lateral movement module, the lateral screw driving unit comprises a lateral screw, a lateral driving motor and a lateral screw fixing piece, the lateral screw fixing piece is slidably arranged at one of the output end of the vertical screw or the vertical sliding rail, and the lateral driving motor is arranged at the other of the output end of the vertical screw or the vertical sliding rail; one end of the transverse screw rod is rotatably arranged on the transverse screw rod fixing piece, and the other end of the transverse screw rod is connected with the output end of the transverse driving motor; one end of the transverse sliding rail is fixedly arranged on the transverse screw rod fixing piece, and the other end of the transverse sliding rail is fixedly arranged on the driving end of the vertical screw rod or the transverse driving motor.

Further, the vision sensor comprises a sensor body and a sensor base; the sensor base is fixedly connected with the output end of the transverse screw rod and is in sliding connection with the transverse sliding rail; the sensor body is arranged on the sensor base and is used for acquiring the visual information, generating and transmitting the visual signal.

As can be seen from the above description of the present invention, the present invention has the following advantages over the prior art:

in the equipment in-place and running state monitoring system provided by the invention, the movement assembly is utilized to drive the visual sensor to move, the visual sensor can sweep each equipment bin in the U position in sequence in the movement process, the visual information corresponding to the equipment bin is obtained, and after a corresponding visual signal is generated, the control module can judge the in-place condition and the running state of equipment in the equipment bin according to the visual signal; by the monitoring system, the in-place condition and the running state of equipment in the cabinet can be automatically monitored, and errors caused by manual operation are avoided.

Compared with a conventional U-bit management system, the monitoring system removes conventional semiautomatic operation, utilizes the display part on the front surface of the equipment as an information source, can judge whether the equipment bin is inserted into and provided with corresponding equipment or not through the display part, can judge the running state of the equipment through the display part, namely, can acquire visual information of a relevant area through a visual sensor, and achieves double monitoring on the equipment in-place and the running state of the equipment.

In the monitoring system, the vision sensor stays in a preset period at the position corresponding to the equipment bin, and in the stay process, the vision sensor acquires vision information of a relevant area of the equipment bin, wherein the relevant area is set to be an area at the position of a display part on the equipment when the equipment bin is placed with equipment, namely, whether the equipment bin is placed with equipment or not, a vision acquisition area exists, and the vision acquisition area corresponds to the position of the display part on the equipment when the equipment is in place, so that the vision sensor can accurately acquire color information of the display part on the equipment bin; it should be noted that the location of the display on the monitor system provided by the present invention may be different for different devices, i.e. the visual receiving range of the visual sensor should be adaptable to different devices, i.e. the visual receiving range may be a larger range capable of encompassing multiple device display locations, rather than a smaller range for a single device display location.

In the monitoring system, the visual sensor starts from the corner of the cabinet, sweeps the U position in a Z-shaped path until the acquisition of visual information of all equipment bins is completed, and the movement mode can improve the visual information acquisition efficiency of the visual sensor, reduce the time spent for one complete sweep and is easy to implement.

In the monitoring system, the controller controls the position of the visual sensor, and when receiving the visual signal transmitted by the visual sensor, the controller corresponds to the position of the visual sensor to obtain the visual information of the equipment bin corresponding to the position, so as to judge the in-place condition and the running state of the equipment in the equipment bin.

In the monitoring system, the motion assembly drives the screw rod to rotate through the motor, and the vision sensor is driven to change the position through the screw rod, so that the motor driving mode can accurately control the position of the vision sensor, and the vision sensor can correspond the vision acquisition range to the position of the display part of the equipment when the vision sensor stays in front of the equipment bin.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments below are briefly introduced, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an on-site and fault monitoring system for equipment according to the present invention.

The main reference numerals illustrate:

a cabinet 10; u bit 11; a device bin 12; a device 13; a display unit 131;

a vertical screw rod fixing member 21; a vertical drive motor 22; a vertical screw 23; a vertical slide rail mount 24; a vertical slide rail 25;

a lateral screw rod fixing member 31; a lateral drive motor 32; a lateral screw 33; a transverse slide rail 34;

a vision sensor 40.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are preferred embodiments of the invention and should not be taken as excluding other embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts, are within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the claims, specification and drawings hereof, unless explicitly defined otherwise, the terms "first," "second," or "third," etc. are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular sequential order.

In the claims, specification and drawings of the present invention, unless explicitly defined otherwise, references to orientation or positional relationship such as the terms "center", "lateral", "longitudinal", "horizontal", "vertical", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", etc. are based on the orientation and positional relationship shown in the drawings and are merely for convenience of description and to simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the apparatus or element referred to must have a particular orientation or be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, nor should it be construed as limiting the particular scope of the invention.

In the claims, specification and drawings of the present invention, unless explicitly defined otherwise, the term "fixedly connected" or "fixedly connected" should be construed broadly, i.e. any connection between them without a displacement relationship or a relative rotation relationship, that is to say includes non-detachably fixedly connected, integrally connected and fixedly connected by other means or elements.

In the claims, specification and drawings of the present invention, the terms "comprising," having, "and variations thereof as used herein, are intended to be" including but not limited to.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 shows a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an on-site and fault monitoring system for monitoring on-site and operating states of a device 13 in a cabinet 10, where the cabinet 10 is vertically provided with a plurality of U-shaped positions 11, each U-shaped position 11 is laterally provided with a plurality of device bins 12 for inserting the device 13, a front surface of the device 13 is provided with a display part 131 adapted to change display contents according to the operating states of the device 13, and the front surface of the device 13 is exposed out of a front opening of the device bins 12 after the device 13 is inserted into the device bins 12. The display portion 131 may be a display device such as a display screen, which can display a light-emitting pattern or a character, or may be an indication device such as an indication lamp, which can only change colors, and the "display content" referred to in the present specification and claims, that is, the color, pattern, character, etc. emitted from the display portion.

The monitoring system includes a motion assembly, a vision sensor 40, and a control module.

The motion assembly is mounted on the cabinet 10, and its output end is adapted to reciprocate vertically and laterally, and its output end movement range covers all U-positions 11 in the cabinet 10.

The motion assembly comprises a vertical motion module and a transverse motion module; the vertical movement module comprises a vertical screw 23 driving unit and a vertical sliding rail 25 extending vertically along the cabinet 10; the transverse driving module comprises a transverse screw 33 driving unit and a transverse sliding rail 34 extending transversely along the cabinet 10; the transverse driving module is driven by a vertical screw rod 23 driving unit to reciprocate along the extending direction of the vertical sliding rail 25; the vision sensor 40 is driven by the driving unit of the transverse screw 33 to reciprocate along the extending direction of the transverse sliding rail 34. In the vertical movement module, a vertical screw rod 23 driving unit and a vertical sliding rail 25 are respectively arranged on two lateral sides of the front surface of the cabinet 10; the vertical screw 23 driving unit comprises a vertical screw 23, a vertical driving motor 22 and a vertical screw 23 fixing piece 21, wherein the vertical screw 23 fixing piece 21 and the vertical driving motor 22 are fixedly arranged on the cabinet 10, one end of the vertical screw 23 is rotatably arranged on the vertical fixing piece, and the other end of the vertical screw 23 is connected with the output end of the vertical driving motor 22. In the transverse movement module, the transverse screw 33 driving unit comprises a transverse screw 33, a transverse driving motor 32 and a transverse screw 33 fixing piece 31, wherein the transverse screw 33 fixing piece 31 is slidably arranged at one of the output end of the vertical screw 23 or the vertical sliding rail 25, and the transverse driving motor 32 is arranged at the other of the output end of the vertical screw 23 or the vertical sliding rail 25; one end of the transverse screw 33 is rotatably arranged on the transverse screw 33 fixing piece 31, and the other end of the transverse screw 33 is connected with the output end of the transverse driving motor 32; one end of the transverse sliding rail 34 is fixedly arranged on the transverse screw 33 fixing piece 31, and the other end of the transverse sliding rail is fixedly arranged on the driving end of the vertical screw 23 or the transverse driving motor 32.

Specifically, the cabinet 10 includes a cabinet body and a cabinet door, the cabinet door is provided with the U-shaped position 11 and the equipment bin 12, the cabinet door can be opened and closed relatively to the cabinet body, the moving assembly is installed on the inner side of the cabinet door of the cabinet 10, when the cabinet door is opened, the moving assembly is far away from the cabinet body together with the vision sensor 40, the equipment 13 can be inserted into the equipment bin 12 at the moment, after the cabinet door is closed, the moving assembly is close to the cabinet body, and the vision sensor 40 can be driven to sweep the U-shaped position 11. Of course, in other embodiments, the moving component may be further installed on the front surface of the cabinet, and when the device 13 needs to be installed or removed, the moving component may drive the vision sensor 40 to move to the corner of the cabinet, and when the device 13 is removed, the cabinet door may be closed, and at this time, the moving component may drive the vision sensor 40 to sweep the U-position 11.

In this embodiment, the vertical movement module and the lateral movement module all adopt screw driving mechanisms, wherein in the vertical movement module, the vertical screw 23 driving unit and the vertical sliding rail 25 are respectively located at two sides of the cabinet 10 in the lateral direction, so as to play a role in supporting the lateral movement module. The vertical lead screw 23 mounting 21 is installed in rack 10 upside, and vertical driving motor 22 is installed in rack 10 downside, and vertical lead screw 23 upper end and vertical lead screw 23 mounting 21 rotate to be connected, and the lower extreme is with vertical driving motor 22's output shaft, and vertical driving motor 22 can drive vertical lead screw and rotate. The vertical slide rail 25 is mounted on the cabinet 10 by two vertical slide rail 25 fixtures.

In the transverse movement module, the fixing piece 31 of the transverse screw rod 33 is slidably sleeved on the vertical sliding rail 25, the transverse driving motor 32 is installed at the output end of the vertical screw rod 23, the transverse driving motor 32 can be understood to be provided with a nut serving as the output end on the vertical screw rod 23, and the transverse driving motor 32 is fixedly connected with the nut, so that the driving of the transverse movement module by the vertical movement module is realized, and the transverse driving motor 32 can be understood to be provided with a shell component, and the shell component and the vertical screw rod form threaded fit. One end of the transverse screw 33 is rotationally connected with the transverse screw 33 fixing piece 31, the other end of the transverse screw 33 is connected with an output shaft of the transverse driving motor 32, and the transverse driving motor 32 can drive the transverse screw 33 to rotate. The two ends of the vertical slide rail 25 are fixed to the fixing member 31 of the lateral screw 33 and the lateral driving motor 32, respectively, and here, the end of the vertical slide rail 25 can be considered to be fixedly connected to the housing member of the lateral driving motor 32.

In this embodiment, the vertical driving motor 22 and the horizontal driving motor 32 may be considered to include not only the motor body but also a corresponding housing part, and this housing part may serve as a base body for fixedly connecting the vertical driving motor 22 and the horizontal driving motor 32 with other parts. In addition, in this embodiment, the vertical driving motor 22 and the horizontal driving motor 32 are both stepper motors, and by transmitting pulse signals with specific parameters to the stepper motors, the stepper motors can be driven to rotate forward or reverse for a certain number of turns, so that the position of the horizontal movement module in the vertical direction and the position of the vision sensor 40 in the horizontal direction are precisely controlled.

The visual sensor 40 is arranged at the output end of the motion assembly, the receiving end of the visual sensor faces the front opening of the equipment bin 12, and the visual sensor is suitable for being driven by the motion assembly to sweep each equipment bin 12 in turn to acquire visual information corresponding to the equipment bin 12 and generate visual signals corresponding to the equipment bins 12 one by one according to the visual information; the control module is used for controlling the motion assembly and the vision sensor 40 to operate, and is suitable for receiving the vision signal transmitted by the vision sensor 40 and judging the in-place condition of the equipment 13 in the equipment bin 12 corresponding to the vision signal and the operating state of the equipment 13 according to the vision signal. Wherein, the control module is suitable for controlling the movement assembly to drive the vision sensor 40 to stay at the position corresponding to each equipment bin 12 for a preset period; the visual sensor 40 has a visual receiving range corresponding to at least the position of the display portion 131 on the device 13 when the device 13 is placed in the device housing 12 at the stay position corresponding to each device housing 12.

In the present embodiment, the vision sensor 40 includes a sensor body and a sensor base; the sensor base is fixedly connected with the output end of the transverse screw rod 33 and is in sliding connection with the transverse sliding rail 34; the sensor body is arranged on the sensor base and is used for acquiring visual information, generating and transmitting visual signals. The sensor base is fixedly connected with the output end of the transverse screw rod 33, which can be understood that a nut serving as the output end is sleeved on the transverse screw rod 33, the sensor base is fixedly connected with the nut, and can be understood that the sensor base is in threaded connection with the transverse screw rod 33, and the transverse screw rod 33 can directly drive the sensor base to transversely move; the sensor body is installed on the sensor base, and the sensor body can acquire visual information in a scanning range of the sensor body in a visible light scanning mode and generate visual signals. For example, the vision sensor 40 may employ a visible light camera, and the camera captures a single image and then transmits the image as a vision signal. In this embodiment, the vision sensor 40 adopts a color sensor, the color sensor can accurately identify the color, different vision signals can be formed according to different colors, the control module can directly judge the collected color information according to the received vision signals, and the control module is not required to analyze the vision signals. It should be noted that, when the display portion is a display device such as a display screen, the display portion can display the running states of the devices 13 by displaying different colors, the colors can be identified by the color sensor at this time, when the display portion displays different patterns or characters to indicate the running states of the devices 13, the visual sensor 40 needs to be changed to a capturing device such as a visible light camera to capture images at this time, and of course, the capturing mode of different types of information data can be adjusted according to actual needs by a person skilled in the art, and the adjustment does not need creative labor.

The control module adopts a conventional computing device, which can control the motion assembly and the vision sensor 40 through running programs and related external devices, and can receive the vision signal transmitted by the vision sensor 40 in a wireless or wired manner, and a wireless signal transmission manner is preferably adopted because the vision sensor 40 has a position variation in the embodiment.

The control module can precisely control the position of the vision sensor 40 by outputting pulse signals to the vertical driving motor 22 and the horizontal driving motor 32, and can determine the position of the equipment bin 12 corresponding to the vision sensor 40 currently through the pulse signals transmitted by the control module, and the control module should include the numbers of all the equipment bins 12 and the corresponding relation with the position of the vision sensor 40, so that the control module can acquire the vision signal from the vision sensor 40 and logically pair the equipment bin 12 corresponding to the vision signal.

To achieve correspondence of visual signals to the equipment bins 12 and to facilitate collection of visual information, the visual sensor 40 will stay in place of each equipment bin 12 for a preset period of time, which may be a short period of time, but which should be sufficient to ensure that the visual sensor 40 is able to collect visual information sufficient for a judgment, and that the visual receiving range of the visual sensor 40 corresponds at least to the position of the display 131 on the equipment 13 when the equipment bin 12 is placed with the equipment 13, when the visual sensor 40 stays. Specifically, in a normal case, the position of the display portion 131 on the device 13 is fixed, the device 13 is placed in the device housing 12, and the position of the display portion 131 with respect to the cabinet 10 is also determined, so that the vision sensor 40 includes a determined vision receiving range regardless of whether the device 13 is present in the device housing 12, and the vision receiving range corresponds to the position of the display portion 131 of the device 13, so that it can be ensured that the vision sensor 40 can collect the vision information including the display portion 131. It should be noted that, for different devices 13, there may be a difference in the location of the display 131 thereon, the present invention provides a monitoring system in which the visual receiving range of the visual sensor 40 should be adaptable to the different devices 13, i.e. the visual receiving range may be a larger range capable of encompassing the locations of the display 131 of multiple devices 13, rather than a smaller range only for a single device 13.

When the control module controls the motion assembly to drive the vision sensor 40 to move to the position of one equipment bin 12, the vision sensor 40 can shoot the equipment bin 12, and as the receiving end of the vision sensor 40 faces the front face of the equipment bin 12, and when the equipment 13 is inserted into the equipment bin 12, the front face of the equipment 13 is exposed from the front opening of the equipment bin 12, if the equipment 13 is placed in the equipment bin 12 at this time, the vision sensor 40 can acquire the color of the display part 131 on the front face of the equipment 13, and if the equipment 13 is not placed in the equipment bin 12 at this time, the vision sensor 40 cannot acquire corresponding color information.

The control module is adapted to control the movement assembly to drive the vision sensor 40 to start from the corner of the cabinet 10, and repeat the process of moving from the end of one U-position 11 to the other end of the U-position 11 and moving from the end vertically to the next adjacent U-position 11 until the vision sensor 40 sweeps all the U-positions 11 in the cabinet 10.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1, the vision sensor 40 may start from the upper left corner of the cabinet 10, move to the first U position 11, then move from left to right from the left end of the U position 11 to the right end of the U position 11, move down to the second U position 11 after reaching the right end, then move from right to left from the right end of the U position 11 to the left end of the U position 11, and repeat the above process until the vision sensor 40 moves to the last U position 11, and when the number of U positions 11 is even, the vision sensor 40 finally reaches the lower left corner of the cabinet 10, and when the number of U positions 11 is odd, the vision sensor 40 finally reaches the lower right corner of the cabinet 10. After the vision sensor 40 finishes scanning all the U-shaped positions 11, the vision sensor 40 returns to the upper left corner under the drive of the motion assembly. It should be noted that if the motion module is mounted on the cabinet body of the cabinet 10, the starting position of the vision sensor 40 should be located above the first U-position 11 so as not to affect the handling of the device 13 by the motion module and the vision sensor 40.

The vision sensor 40 generates a corresponding vision signal after acquiring the vision information of each equipment bin 12 and transmits the vision signal to the control module in real time, and the control module judges the in-place condition and the running state of the equipment 13 in the equipment bin 12 corresponding to the vision signal according to the received vision signal and the current stay position of the vision sensor 40 in real time. When the color information expressed by the received visual signals is black, the control module judges that the corresponding equipment bin 12 does not have equipment 13 in place; when the color information expressed by the received visual signals is the color of the equipment 13 with normal running state, judging that the corresponding equipment bin 12 has equipment 13 in place and the running state is normal; when the color information expressed by the received visual signal is the color with abnormal running state of the equipment 13, the corresponding equipment bin 12 is judged to have the equipment 13 in place and abnormal running state.

Specifically, after the vision sensor 40 collects the vision information of each equipment bin 12, a corresponding vision signal is generated according to the vision information, and the vision signal is synchronously transmitted to the control module, and the control module determines whether the equipment bin 12 is provided with equipment 13 according to the vision signal and the equipment bin 12 number corresponding to the current position of the vision sensor 40, and determines the running state of the equipment 13 when the equipment 13 is in place. After all the determination of the in-place and operating states of the devices 13 of the U-bit 11 are completed, the control module may transmit relevant information to a corresponding server or host computer, so that the data center monitoring platform manages the U-bit 11 in the cabinet 10.

In the in-place and running state monitoring system of the equipment 13 provided by the invention, the visual sensor 40 is driven by the motion component to move, the visual sensor 40 can sweep each equipment bin 12 in the U-shaped position 11 in sequence in the motion process, visual information corresponding to the equipment bin 12 is obtained, and after a corresponding visual signal is generated, the control module can judge the in-place condition of the equipment 13 in the equipment bin 12 and the running state of the equipment 13 according to the visual signal; by the monitoring system, the in-place condition and the running state of the equipment 13 in the cabinet 10 can be automatically monitored, and errors caused by manual operation are avoided.

The foregoing description of the embodiments and description is presented to illustrate the scope of the invention, but is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. Modifications, equivalents, and other improvements to the embodiments of the invention or portions of the features disclosed herein, as may occur to persons skilled in the art upon use of the invention or the teachings of the embodiments, are intended to be included within the scope of the invention, as may be desired by persons skilled in the art from a logical analysis, reasoning, or limited testing, in combination with the common general knowledge and/or knowledge of the prior art.

Claims (10)

1. The equipment in-place and running state monitoring system is used for monitoring in-place and running states of equipment (13) in a cabinet (10), a plurality of U-shaped positions (11) are vertically distributed on the cabinet (10), at least one equipment bin (12) for inserting the equipment (13) is transversely distributed on each U-shaped position (11), a display part (131) suitable for changing display contents according to the running states of the equipment (13) is arranged on the front face of the equipment (13), and the front face of the equipment (13) is exposed out of a front opening of the equipment bin (12) after the equipment is inserted into the equipment bin (12); the monitoring system is characterized by comprising:

the motion assembly is arranged on the cabinet (10), the output end of the motion assembly is suitable for reciprocating motion in the vertical direction and the transverse direction, and the motion range of the output end covers all U-shaped positions (11) in the cabinet (10);

the visual sensor (40) is arranged at the output end of the motion assembly, the receiving end of the visual sensor faces to the front opening of the equipment bin (12), and the visual sensor is suitable for being driven by the motion assembly to sweep each equipment bin (12) in sequence to acquire visual information corresponding to the equipment bin (12) and generate visual signals corresponding to the equipment bins (12) one by one according to the visual information; and

the control module is used for controlling the motion assembly and the vision sensor (40) to operate, and is suitable for receiving the vision signal transmitted by the vision sensor (40) and judging the in-place condition of the equipment (13) in the equipment bin (12) corresponding to the vision signal and the operating state of the equipment (13) according to the vision signal.

2. An equipment in-place and operating condition monitoring system according to claim 1, characterized in that said control module is adapted to control said movement assembly to bring said vision sensor (40) to rest for a preset period in correspondence with the position of each of said equipment bins (12).

3. A device presence and operation status monitoring system according to claim 2, characterized in that said visual sensor (40) is positioned at a dwell position corresponding to each of said device bins (12) with a visual reception range corresponding at least to the position of the display (131) on the device (13) when the device bin (12) is placed with said device (13).

4. A plant in-place and operating condition monitoring system according to claim 3, characterized in that said control module is adapted to control said movement assembly to bring said vision sensor (40) from the angular position of said cabinet (10) to repeat the process of moving laterally from the end of one U-position (11) to the other end of that U-position (11) and vertically from that end to the next adjacent U-position (11) until said vision sensor (40) sweeps all U-positions (11) in said cabinet (10).

5. An equipment in-place and operating state monitoring system according to claim 4, characterized in that the vision sensor (40) generates a corresponding vision signal after acquiring the vision information of each equipment bin (12) and transmits the vision signal to the control module in real time, and the control module judges the in-place condition of the equipment (13) in the equipment bin (12) corresponding to the vision signal and the operating state of the equipment (13) in real time according to the received vision signal and the current stay position of the vision sensor (40).

6. The equipment in-place and running state monitoring system according to claim 5, wherein the control module judges that no equipment (13) exists in the corresponding equipment bin (12) when the color information expressed by the received visual signal is black; when the color information expressed by the received visual signals is the color of the equipment (13) with normal running state, judging that the corresponding equipment bin (12) has equipment (13) in place and the running state is normal; when the color information expressed by the received visual signals is the abnormal color of the running state of the equipment (13), the equipment (13) is in place and the running state is abnormal in the corresponding equipment bin (12).

7. An equipment in-place and operational state monitoring system according to any of claims 1-6, wherein said motion assembly comprises a vertical motion module and a lateral motion module; the vertical movement module comprises a vertical screw rod (23) driving unit and a vertical sliding rail (25) vertically extending along the cabinet (10); the transverse driving module comprises a transverse screw (33) driving unit and a transverse sliding rail (34) extending transversely along the cabinet (10); the transverse driving module is driven by the vertical screw rod (23) driving unit to reciprocate along the extending direction of the vertical sliding rail (25); the visual sensor (40) is driven by the transverse screw rod (33) driving unit to reciprocate along the extending direction of the transverse sliding rail (34).

8. The equipment in-place and running state monitoring system according to claim 7, wherein in the vertical movement module, the vertical screw (23) driving unit and the vertical sliding rail (25) are respectively arranged on two lateral sides of the front surface of the cabinet (10); the vertical lead screw (23) driving unit comprises a vertical lead screw (23), a vertical driving motor (22) and a vertical lead screw (23) fixing piece (21), wherein the vertical lead screw (23) fixing piece (21) and the vertical driving motor (22) are fixedly arranged on the cabinet (10), one end of the vertical lead screw (23) is rotatably arranged on the vertical fixing piece, and the other end of the vertical lead screw is connected with the output end of the vertical driving motor (22).

9. The equipment in-place and running state monitoring system according to claim 8, wherein in the transverse movement module, the transverse screw (33) driving unit comprises a transverse screw (33), a transverse driving motor (32) and a transverse screw (33) fixing piece (31), the transverse screw (33) fixing piece (31) is slidably arranged at one of an output end of the vertical screw (23) or a vertical sliding rail (25), and the transverse driving motor (32) is arranged at the other of the output end of the vertical screw (23) or the vertical sliding rail (25); one end of the transverse screw rod (33) is rotatably arranged on the transverse screw rod (33) fixing piece (31), and the other end of the transverse screw rod is connected with the output end of the transverse driving motor (32); one end of the transverse sliding rail (34) is fixedly arranged on the transverse screw rod (33) fixing piece (31), and the other end of the transverse sliding rail is fixedly arranged on the driving end of the vertical screw rod (23) or the transverse driving motor (32).

10. An equipment in-situ and operational status monitoring system as claimed in claim 9 wherein said vision sensor (40) comprises a sensor body and a sensor base; the sensor base is fixedly connected with the output end of the transverse screw rod (33) and is in sliding connection with the transverse sliding rail (34); the sensor body is arranged on the sensor base and is used for acquiring the visual information, generating and transmitting the visual signal.