Remote monitoring device

A media storage library, comprising:

• a handling mechanism to manipulate media cartridges between one or more storage locations and one or more media drives, the one or more storage locations and the one or more media drives within the media storage library;
• and
• a remote monitoring device to fit in the one or more storage locations and capable of being handled by the handling mechanism, the remote monitoring device including:
• a plurality of monitoring devices to obtain from the media storage library at least one environmental measurement of an environmental condition within the media storage library and at least one image of components in the media storage library;
• a processor encoded with data collection instructions to dynamically activate the plurality of monitoring devices to obtain the at least one environmental measurement and the at least one image;
• and
• a communication transmitter communicatively coupled to the plurality of monitoring devices to transmit at least one of data signals representing the at least one environmental measurement and at least one image of components in the media storage library.

A method comprising:

• extracting, by a handling mechanism of a media storage library, a remote monitoring device from a storage location of the media storage library;
• transporting, by the handling mechanism, the remote monitoring device to one or more areas within the media storage library;
• dynamically activating a plurality of monitoring devices within the remote monitoring device according to data collection instructions being executed by a processor to capture, at least one environmental measurement and at least one image of components in the media storage library;
• and
• transmitting, by the remote monitoring device, data signals representing at least one of the at least one environmental measurement and the at least one image of the components in the media storage library.