Temperature Variances and Accuracy Among Sensors

Room Alert is a worldwide leader when it comes to environment monitoring and protecting important facilities and assets. It’s trusted in data centers and facilities in 185 countries to monitor temperature, humidity, flood, power, smoke, motion and more to help prevent downtime and data loss.

After almost 30 years in business, monitoring for temperature extremes remains the most popular reason users choose Room Alert. Often these new users come to us reactively, after an outage or downtime caused by high temperatures in their data center or server room. Users looking to protect refrigerators and freezers against becoming too warm are also prime candidates for Room Alert and our sensors.

Every Room Alert comes with built in temperature monitoring, and most users also opt to add additional external temperature sensors. In fact, our Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor is one of our most popular, as it allows users to monitor both temperature and humidity from the same sensor, while also offering users the option of tracking heat index (“feels like” temperature) as well as dew point.

Our sensors are constantly tested and analyzed to ensure they are accurately reporting data. Every sensor we offer comes with detailed information on ranges of measurement, along with accuracy and reported increments or resolution.

In our industry across a wide number of vendors, it is widely accepted that different sensors monitoring the same factor, such as temperature, may report slightly different results due to their build as well as their factory calibration. Also, it’s important to note that a built-in temperature sensor may report a different reading than an external temperature sensor due to the enclosure it’s contained in (for more information, see our FAQ on the subject here).

Almost all AVTECH sensors contain an accuracy range within 2 degrees Celsius, and many of them report in increments of less than 0.01 degrees. By having such a tight tolerance, our users know that our sensors will report as accurate a reading as possible. Even the difference of a degree or two can matter tremendously in some environments such as laboratories, so our sensors are designed to be accurate and provide as close of an increment or resolution as it can.

Room Alert additionally offers users the ability to adjust sensor readings to account for differences between sensor types and locations. This allows our users to provide their own internal adjustments based on their facilities and setup, and provides as exact alerting as possible. Once optionally calibrated in Room Alert, these adjusted readings are available in all interfaces, including RoomAlert.com and Device ManageR.

Our Support team has put together a wealth of information on all of our sensors and available adjustments that users can access any time. They also are available to work with customers to ensure they are placing sensors in the best possible places within their facilities, allowing for optimal performance and alerting capabilities.

Organizations trust Room Alert to protect their most valuable assets and data. It’s our responsibility to make sure that our monitors, sensors, and software are alerting users correctly and properly based on their own unique monitoring situation. By offering sensors that maintain correct accuracy and tight tolerances, we are able to provide users with peace of mind, knowing that their facility is well protected by Room Alert and AVTECH.

Note: The former GoToMyDevices online monitoring and management platform was migrated into RoomAlert.com in December 2017. For more information, please see our announcement article and FAQ.