Thoughts From the New Girl. . .
Hey, I’m Jessica and I’m new here at Ravica. As I’ve been learning about the Ravica product line for environmental monitoring, I can’t help but think back to some situations where having this type of equipment in place would have been a real lifesaver.
In a previous life, I worked in the building maintenance department at a small university on the west coast. My job was basically to take all the calls from across the campus when stuff went wrong, and then send someone to fix the problem.
One of the frequent calls I received had to do with the walk-in coolers and freezers in the main dining hall. It seemed like those things were always going down, and the dining hall had hundreds of hungry college students to serve three times a day — this was a major problem!
With no equipment set up to monitor the temperature and humidity in the coolers, the detection of a problem was left in the hands of the already busy kitchen staff. By the time the problem was reported and we were able to make a service call, there was a real possibility of major food loss and substantial cost to the university. If there had been a monitoring system, like the Ravica BitSight2, with a couple of temperature and humidity sensors installed, we would have been able to set the high and low temperature thresholds, received notifications via email or SMS, and fixed any problem before it reached a critical state. That would have saved time, money, and lowered the collective blood pressure of both the kitchen and maintenance staff.
There are lots of other situations where Ravica environmental sensors would have been useful for facility management, but I’ll save those stories for another blog.
~Jessica
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