Temperature monitoring during the winter months
Filed under: Intelligent Sensors, environmental monitoring, temperature monitoring
With winter just around the corner, those of us in the more northern locations (the Ravica offices are located in Southern Maine) begin preparing for cold temperatures in a variety of ways. Whether you’re just sealing the windows to keep the cold air outside, where it belongs, or selling all of your most prized possessions on Ebay to cover the home heating costs for the impending months, it is important to get a jump on these preparations.
Although the Ravica line of environmental monitoring solutions are typically used in more corporate type scenarios, like monitoring data center hot spots or watching for rising temperatures in walk-in coolers and freezers, there are many other more domestic uses as well. After all, if we can monitor the humidity in your walk-in humidor, then we can certainly monitor the temperature in your house. Now, most likely you aren’t just going to litter your living room with BitSights and single port temperature and humidity sensors, however, basements in the northern regions, even if properly insulated, can get extremely cold. The last thing anyone wants are burst pipes and a flooded basement in the middle of a nor’easter.
Placing even a single BitSight2 and a temperature sensor in your basement can make the difference between knowing when things are going from bad to worse, while still being able to do something about it, and the alternative (let’s not even think about your stored baby booties and family photos covered in puddles of freezing water). Having a home temperature monitoring system in place is especially important for anyone that travels extensively or maybe for those lucky enough to live in warmer climates during the winter. In the grand scheme of things, the BitSight2 is a very cost efficient solution, when considering the damage that can be done by the extreme cold many of us experience year to year.
~ Jon Mills
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