Ideal office temperature

June 4, 2009 by Mike Allen · 1 Comment
Filed under: Intelligent Sensors, SensorProbes, environmental monitoring, temperature monitoring 

It has been very cold in our office lately despite temperatures of over 70 degrees outside.  Check out this picture I took last week:
Ravica office temp

Seems like an awful waste of energy doesn’t it? What is the ideal office temperature?

We decided to move one of the BitSight temperature and humidity sensors to our work area:

Ravica office temperature

We used Denika Performance Trender to monitor the SNMP OIDs on the device.  Take a look at these temperature fluctuations. Crazy!

office temperature trend

Cornell University did a study on this topic and found that warm offices lead to fewer typing errors and higher productivity. I’ll have to show this article to the boss.  :)

- Mike

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