Office Humidity Monitoring
Filed under: environmental monitoring, General, Intelligent Sensors, SensorProbes
Until a few years ago I didn’t worry much about the humidity level in the office. One day I was commenting to one of my coworkers about how my body is prone to more static electricity shocks in the winter. He brought up the topic of humidity.
I decided to look into what the proper humidity level should be in our office. I found out that when relative humidity is kept at about 50%, employees have fewer respiratory problems, as well. Humidity at too high a level makes the office feel “stuffy,” not to mention the problems it can cause with bacterial or fungal growth.
Humidity lower than 50% can cause discomfort by drying out the mucous membranes, contributing to skin rashes. Dry conditions cause electrostatic charge on both office equipment and their users. Ouch! Wouldn’t want expensive electronic equipment to start having problems.
Here is the humidity level in the office of one of our customers:
Does it look healthy to you? He decided to put the humidity probe on the internet so that the land lord could see it from the internet. If it isn’t fixed, he could setup the probe to email him every time a threshold is breached. HA!
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