In the face of an unplanned event or disaster, a simple warning is not enough. Temperature monitoring provider AVTECH offers Room Alert Signal Towers that are designed specifically to assist with monitoring computer room temperature and environment monitoring in multiple locations – up to 900 feet away – while visually and audibly alerting staff when issues or events occur.

 

As AVTECH’s Michael Sigourney (News - Alert) explained in a recent interview with TMCnet, most people think of temperature problems in terms of overheating, but in today’s world, as a result of the changes of the last five years, companies are putting in more cooling, and can also have problems with the environment becoming too cold. Both overheating and overcooling are major problems and should be avoided because they stress equipment and they lower the processor performance, he explained.

 

For example, for every 18 degrees above 85, a processor can lose about 50 percent of its reliability and drop in performance, according to Intel (News - Alert) data. Environments need to stay within a certain range of temperature in order to get maximum utility of equipment, Sigourney added.

 

According to AVTECH officials, the Room Alert Signal Tower package allows users to log environment sensor status for immediate alert notification, historical review and graphing. Alert notifications via e-mail, e-mail-to-SMS, SNMP and more communicate to devices like computers, mobile phones, iPhones, BlackBerrys, pagers and PDAs. Room Alert Signal Towers offer a Web browser interface for settings changes and viewing real-time sensor status from anywhere.

In addition, Room Alert Signal Towers integrate with any SNMP enabled device on the network. Room Alert Signal Towers monitor environments like small phone or wiring closets, critical rack cabinets, computer rooms, factories, warehouses, schools, hospitals, retail and more, company officials said.

 

Since Signal Towers are connected via Ethernet and do not require a host PC for operation, they can be located anywhere an Ethernet connection is available.