Equipment housing with interfacing computer
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorsBrian Lawrence Senogles, Paul Wesley Taylor, Nathan Aaron Fink, Ronda Lyn Watkins, Jeffrey Delzer
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Abstract
An equipment housing is provided upon which heavy computing equipment, such as servers, routers, switches, and others may be mounted. A computing device is attached to the housing. The computing device is interfaced with the equipment on the housing, and also with a system that is external thereto. The disclosed housing, and others like it, may be used by an organization along with a centralized computing system such that that organization will know the exact location and status of all of its equipment at the same time and may accurately and readily monitor all of its equipment-related-assets at any given time.
Claims23
An equipment housing, comprising:
- a computing device located proximate said housing;
- a user interface included in said computing device for use in sending information;
- wherein said information is regarding the rack or equipment thereon;
- and
- wherein said information includes a geolocation for said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.