An IOT Based Data Loss Prevention Regulatory System in the Zimbabwean Telecommunications Sector

The regulation of server room controls that prevent data loss in Zimbabwe is mostly physical. Data loss can be caused by human and non-human factors. Non-human factors are mainly fires, rodents and rats, earthquakes, and tremors, low or high extreme humidity and floods, as well as high unregulated temperatures. These are the main commonly prevalent non-human attributes causing data loss in Zimbabwe. In order to regulate server room standards with a bias towards data protection. Inspections are random and physical. This means that physical travelling is required to each and every site in order to provide assurance that every data center is compliant with the server room regulations. This study therefore sought to design and develop an experimental set-up to understand how emerging technologies such as Internet Of Things can be used to remotely regulate and obtain simultaneous result from multiple data centers in real time. The developed system was designed using circuits and sensors that were mounted together on a Node MCU and the software developed using Arduino. Further studies may include automated regulatory action when an anomaly is observed.