Ravica Blog » smoke monitoring http://www.ravica.com/blog Environmental monitoring solutions that just work Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Best Practices in Humidity Monitoring http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/best-practices-in-humidity-monitoring/ http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/best-practices-in-humidity-monitoring/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:02:16 +0000 Mike Allen http://www.ravica.com/blog/?p=651 With everyone worried about smoke monitoring or temperature monitoring, I thought it high time we post something on humidity monitoring. Today I am excited, as we had an interesting call on humidity sensors for long term apple storage. And I thought cigar humidor humidity was our strangest sale.

Come to find out, apple storage is best done in cold, humid environments. This “Best storage conditions for apples” blog seem pretty informative as well.

Accurate humidity control is the key to maintaining quality fresh produce in cold storage. Cold storage systems inherently remove water vapor from the air in the cooler. Dry air increases what is called ‘transpiration‘ or water loss from the stored product, resulting in lost weight and lost value. Controlled Atmosphere storage at -2° to + 4° C slows down the transpiration process. On the other hand, very low temperature cold storage dries the fruit as water is lost, due to dry cold air.

proper humidity level for fruit storage

Don’t let your fruit get yucky. Contact Ravica for a sensorProbe and receive threshold (i.e. too high or too low) alerts via pager, email or other.

- Mike

]]> http://www.ravica.com/blog/environmental-monitoring/best-practices-in-humidity-monitoring/feed/ 0 Monitoring for Smoke at a National Level http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/monitoring-for-smoke-at-a-national-level/ http://www.ravica.com/blog/sensorprobes/monitoring-for-smoke-at-a-national-level/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:41:30 +0000 Mike Allen http://www.ravica.com/blog/?p=302 Monitoring the data room, your home, or for smoking in the boys room is just the beginning. The United States Government takes monitoring smoke and air seriously. Yosemite National ParkCheck out the smoke map maintained by the Interagency Real Time Smoke Monitoring web site. I drilled in on California and clicked on the center of the state. The air and smoke quality doesn’t look as good as other parts of the state.

Yosemite National Park
California likes their state parks. They have a web site showing off how they measure smoke ozone levels, particulate matter levels and more. The site provides air quality and smoke monitoring trends as well as web cameras. The cameras actually allow you to see the differences in air quality. I thought it was cool.

Ravica provides smoke detectors for $125.00 and security cameras on the SecurityProbe for $1,795.00. These probes also monitor temperature, humidity, water, etc., and it supports SNMP, so that you can trend the data over time.

Our services department can set you up with a monitoring web page like Yosemite. Just tell us what you need and we’ll help you get started.

- Mike

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