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

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


