FAST Key Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Project Background

The FAST spherical radio telescope is a major national scientific infrastructure project initiated during China’s 11th Five-Year Plan. Located in a natural karst depression in Guizhou, the telescope is the world’s largest single-aperture radio telescope — the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope — designed to enable high-precision astronomical observations over a vast sky area. The project was jointly constructed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Guizhou Provincial Government. Recognized as a major national scientific infrastructure, the facility passed national acceptance on January 11, 2020, and has been officially in operation since.

Monitoring Scope：Data center and micro-modules.

Project Scale：Data center area: 2,000 m²、Number of data centers: 4、Number of racks: 380

Solution

Adopts intelligent and diversified monitoring and management to unify the monitoring and control of auxiliary infrastructure equipment at the FAST laboratory. Implements localized, integrated monitoring and management for the micro-module data center, and integrates access into the central management platform. Equipped with dual-redundant hot-standby systems and databases to enhance system safety and reliability.

Monitoring Targets：Power distribution cabinets, breakers, fire detection, temperature and humidity, water leakage, air conditioning, UPS, batteries, access control, cameras, micro-module systems, etc.

Application Value

Dual-system + dual-database hot-standby platform enables seamless automatic switchover and stable, efficient operation.

Multiple alarm filtering strategies precisely identify root causes and provide an expert diagnostic knowledge base for effective fault handling solutions.

Diverse alarm notification methods enable immediate alerts as soon as a fault occurs.