Autonomous environmental monitoring device

An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

• a processing system;
• and
• a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide an autonomous environmental monitoring engine that is configured to:
• periodically retrieving, when a computing device connector that is coupled to the processing system is not connected to a computing device and when receiving power from a battery system that is coupled to the processing system, respective environmental monitoring data generated by at least one environmental monitoring sensor device that is coupled to the processing system;
• store, when the computing device connector is not connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system, the respective environmental monitoring data in a storage device that is coupled to the processing system;
• provide, in response to the computing device connector being connected to the computing device, at least one computing device operating function associated with the operation of the computing device;
• periodically retrieve, when the computing device connector is connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system, respective environmental monitoring data generated by the at least one environmental monitoring sensor device;
• and
• store, when the computing device connector is connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system, the environmental monitoring data in the storage device.

A method for autonomously monitoring environmental factors in a computing device, comprising:

• periodically retrieving, by an autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem when a computing device connector that is coupled to the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem is not connected to a computing device and when receiving power from a battery system, respective environmental monitoring data generated by at least one environmental monitoring sensor device that is coupled to the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem;
• storing, by the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem when the computing device connector is not connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system the respective environmental monitoring data in a storage device that is coupled to a processing system;
• providing, by the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem in response to the computing device connector being connected to the computing device, at least one computing device operation function associated with the operation of the computing device;
• periodically retrieving, by the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem when the computing device connector is connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system, respective environmental monitoring data generated by at least one environmental monitoring sensor device;
• and
• storing, by the autonomous environmental monitoring subsystem when the computing device connector is connected to the computing device and when receiving power from the battery system, the environmental monitoring data in the storage device.