Environmental Monitoring Channel Feature
IT WatchDogs' Environmental Monitoring Products Prevent Accidents
Environmental monitoring leader ITWatchDogs has been making its mark as a leading provider of technologies designed to protect critical infrastructure and the company is showing no signs of slowing down.
The company’s mission is to avoid accidents that should never happen in the first place by relying on adequate environmental monitoring products and alert systems. Sensors are installed and set in monitors to trigger real-time alerts to a PC, BlackBerry (News 
- Alert) or smartphone. The idea is that consumers are alerted to environmental threats before equipment is destroyed. Users can set alerts for any type of environmental threat such as humidity, airflow, audio and light monitoring and tracking.
“It is like a hardware insurance policy—our devices protect equipment and give [data center managers] a cost-effective and less expensive way of doing that than our competitors,”?said ITWatchDogs’ Charlie Mayne, in a recent Processor article.
The main product line of ITWatchDogs is its Goose series of monitors, in which sensor devices are connected by cables. The line can be used to monitor heat, humidity, airflow, sound, temperature, electrical currents to equipment and other environmental elements. Moreover, the Goose series also offers intrusion detection, in which sensors detect if someone has entered the data center, turned on the lights or opened server cabinets.
A D-Link (News - Alert)-enabled video camera works in conjunction with ITWatchDogs’ Goose series. The video cameras can be used to detect motion or to allow you to visually monitor what is going on in your data center on a LAN-connected PC or over a remote Internet connection.
ITWatchDogs’ systems are the best in the industry because they work well, are easy to set up and beat the competition in price, according to company officials.
“When you call in, we don’t have a support center/call center kind of thing. If you need technical support to install or troubleshoot our products, you call in and you can immediately talk to someone that actually probably wrote the software for the product,” Mayne said. “You are not talking to somebody who is trying to diagnose your problem by following a flow chart.”
In related news, ITWatchDogs recently added greater I/O capabilities to the line, by introducing the I/O Expander (IOE), which increased monitors’ sensors and relay output capacities by adding 32 additional dry contact / 0—5VDC analog inputs, eight extra digital sensor ports and three NO/NC relay outputs.
Rachel Ramsey is a TMCnet editorial assistant, contributing news items and feature articles on a variety of communications and technology topics. Rachel has previously worked in PR and communications at The Wriglesworth Consultancy, an award-winning London PR firm. She has also contributed to the creative services department at CBS 3 and The CW Philly in Philadelphia. To read more of Rachel's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Rich Steeves
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