Humidity monitoring for a walk-in humidor
Filed under: environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, SensorProbes, temperature monitoring
So maybe you haven’t already investigated how to build a walkin-humidor for storing your extensive cigar collection. Maybe you have never smoked a cigar in your life, and are totally against the practice – that’s okay. However, if you are a tobacconist, than you will definitely be able to appreciate what one of our customers did to ensure just the right level of temperature and humidity in his customized smoke lounge and walk-in humidor.
First he researched exactly what was needed to build the actual enclosure (lots of Spanish Cedar) and built it. Then, knowing that the air in the room would need to be kept moist (recommended humidity level is around 70%), he purchased a humidifier from Bemis that would match the decor. It is equally important that the room stay at, or very near, 70 degrees Fahrenheit. So, he installed a in-wall forced-air heater, to ensure that the temperature remained constant. However, neither the humidifier nor the heater should be running all of the time. So using a BitSight8, a few single port temperature and humidity sensors, placed at key areas around the room, and a sensor controlled relay, he was able to accomplish his goal. Now, the humidifier and the heater turn on automatically when the temp or humidity reach the desired thresholds. All of this was easily configured in the BitSight’s web-based user interface.
So if you are a cigar aficionado or not, it is easy to see just how many different scenarios in the home or office call for a controlled environment. All it takes to avoid potential disaster is good planning and an even better environmental monitoring system in place. That’s where we come in!
~ Jon Mills
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Yahoo powers data center using Niagara Falls; Google raises data center temperatures
Filed under: Data Center, environmental monitoring, humidity monitoring, temperature monitoring
If I received an invitation to visit the offices of Google and Yahoo, I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of time snooping 
around the desk of the company founders. I’d rather spend my time checking out their data centers. Just imagine being among the machines that crunch all that search and email data zipping around the world. Just imagine what the physical security must be like at their data centers…
Yahoo last month announced plans to build its greenest data center in Lockport, N.Y. Yahoo co-founder and Chief Yahoo David Filo explains in his blog that the data center will be designed to use 100% outside air to cool the servers. And the resource used to power the data center and the servers will be the renewable hydroelectric power from the Niagara Falls. Read more