US Patent 10887785 Wireless mesh fabric for hardware resource discovery and management

Provided are systems and methods for wirelessly managing hardware resources that are distributed across different storage apparatus in a site. The systems and methods may include broadcasting a unique identifier from different controllers that operate as part of the different storage apparatus, mapping a physical position of the different controllers based on one or more of a different time or order with which each controller receives the unique identifier of another controller, monitoring a data network that is used to access the hardware resources installed in a particular storage apparatus, determining status of the hardware resources, and controlling visual indicators of a particular controller, that operates as part of the particular storage apparatus, so that each visual indicator conveys the status of a different hardware resource that is aligned or otherwise associated with one of the visual indicators.