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		<title>Voltage Monitoring and Detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We often think of temperature monitoring and humidity monitoring first.  Some of us are even concerned about smoke detection and water detection, but what about power detection? I have to admit, it wasn’t first on my list of environmental conditions to monitor either.



Voltage monitoring should be a concern.  Why? Because your battery backup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/data-center/voltage-monitoring-and-detection/</link>
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		<title>Virtually unlimited expandability for the SecurityProbe .  . . connect up to 600 sensors to one unit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The majority of Ravica customers that I talk with are looking to monitor a small number of specific environmental conditions—sometimes that is monitoring the temperature and humidity in the data center or detecting water leaks in a second home.   For these applications, the BitSight2 and BitSight8 sensor probe models are great environmental monitoring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/general/virtually-unlimited-expandability-for-the-securityprobe-connect-up-to-600-sensors-to-one-unit/</link>
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		<title>Is an environmentally sustainable data center possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest concerns for IT facility managers is monitoring the temperature in data centers and server rooms to make sure that the excessive heat produced by hardware is not accumulating to dangerous levels that can overheat the servers.    This is an important task for the obvious reason that overheated equipment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/general/is-an-environmentally-sustainable-data-center-possible/</link>
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		<title>Setting up voice/SMS notifications with Skype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about a web-based environmental monitoring system is the ability to set-up notifications in a wide variety of ways to make sure that emergency situations do not go un-noticed.  This saves on the response time that can easily be the difference between averting a disaster and having to face substantial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/general/setting-up-voicesms-notifications-with-skype/</link>
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		<title>SNMP Temperature Monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever we buy anything for the company, I always ask if it can be connected to the network and monitored with SNMP.  For example, when a new HVAC system was installed in our building, I asked if it was going to be SNMP manageable.  The contractor looked at me like I was speaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/snmp-temperature-monitoring/</link>
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		<title>Temperature and humidity monitoring for agribusiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you hear words like farm, agriculture, and greenhouse; you are much more likely to visualize pastoral scenes of rolling hills and grazing livestock than images of computers and network cables.  In fact, we often think of farms and greenhouses as the antithesis of the high-tech environment.  In reality, the modern commercial farm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/temperature-and-humidity-monitoring-for-agribusiness/</link>
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		<title>Security solutions for car dealership lots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on my recent security kick—it is an unfortunate side effect of being both a news junkie and obsessed with TV detective shows—today, I dive headlong into the problem of securing dealership lots.  This problem came to my attention as I was researching motion detectors for last week’s post on data center security.
Most car dealerships [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/general/security-solutions-for-car-dealership-lots/</link>
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		<title>Event monitoring systems make understaffed data centers run smoother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Symantec&#8217;s latest &#8220;State of the Data Center&#8221; report, which was released early last week, half of all IT executives say their data centers are extremely understaffed. With the economy still struggling to get moving again, it is no wonder that network engineers and facility managers are having to find new ways to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/data-center/event-monitoring-systems-make-understaffed-data-centers-run-smoother/</link>
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		<title>Physical Security for Data Centers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Data centers house some of the most valuable and irreplaceable assets for any organization.  For this reason, physical security is of the utmost importance when designing a data center.  Depending on the size and budget of the organization, physical security measures can include everything from solid floor-to-deck concrete partitions to biometrics screening.
There should also be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/data-center/physical-security-for-data-centers/</link>
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		<title>Temperature Monitoring in the Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across an article about a union clause for workers in the New York Public Libraries that requires compensation to its workers if the temperature in the library drops below 68°.   As I sit at my desk wrapped in my scarf and gripping my warm coffee cup to fend off growing icicles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ravica.com/blog/temperature-monitoring/temperature-monitoring-in-the-office/</link>
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