Environmental Monitoring: An Insider’s view
Here is an insider’s view on environmental monitoring and detection with a few perks that come with an environmental sensor monitoring and detection package. Once you have a custom temperature...
View Article5 Tips on Managing Data Center Security
Despite the fact that the obligation for personnel to enter data centers have been slacking in recent years, here are some tips on managing data center security; because it is as much of a necessity...
View ArticleWeb-Based Remote Environmental Monitoring: How to be in Ten Places at Once
Did you know that with web based remote environmental monitoring systems you can be in 10 places at once? Experimental physicists have been playing with quantum motion with the goal of someday making...
View ArticleAdvances in Technology: Remote Environmental Monitoring
There was a time when remote environmental monitoring was a cool, new technology. A few months ago, an Israeli student became the first person to merge his mind with a surrogate robot. Certainly a very...
View ArticleGreenhouse Environmental Monitoring: Temperature and Humidity Monitors
Environmental monitoring is essential for crops greenhouses. A few environmental factors are involved in providing crops and greenhouse plants with appropriate environmental conditions for healthy...
View ArticleSecurity Monitoring Detail For Your Vehicle
While some people may not be convinced that a security detail for a car is necessary, those who have cautious tendencies may be interested. Recently, my sister-in-law stopped by for a family visit....
View ArticleLack of Temperature Monitoring Causes Candy Shop Meltdown
I was talking to one of my co-workers who was telling me about a candy shop that closed because its chocolate had all melted due to the lack of employees monitoring the temperature. He told me that he...
View ArticleChoosing the Base Unit for Your Environmental & Security Monitoring Needs
Some clients who come to us for either an environmental monitoring or security monitoring system sometimes may purchase a solution without searching for a better fitting solution for their required...
View ArticleUnusual Environmental Monitoring Solutions
I love it when customers call us up at Ravica to inquire about using our environmental monitoring solution in unusual ways that we don’t even advertise. Typically, we market both our environmental...
View ArticleHome Invasions: Protect your Home with Security Monitoring
With technological advances, security monitoring has reached the home to protect against home invasions. In recent years, we’ve heard statistics and horrifying reports on the news which have instilled...
View ArticleCustomizable Environmental and Security Monitoring Solutions
Here at Ravica we offer highly custom configurations of environmental monitoring systems. Our environmental monitoring tools come with many features that make the products adaptable to your needs....
View ArticleAirborne Pathogens: Airflow Methods and Monitoring
Many do not consider the importance of airflow methods and monitoring in terms of airborne pathogens, or really, in any way. IT professionals know all too well that airflow sensors are extremely...
View ArticleWe Answer: How Cold Should a Server Room Be?
Many people ask, how cold should a server room be? Of course, general recommendations from ASHRAE are anywhere between 10°C (50°F) to 28°C (82°F). However, what most people do not know is that...
View ArticleEmploying a Digital Voltmeter in a Security or Environmental Monitoring System
Digital voltmeters, also called multimeters, are tools that measures useful and very accurate (+ 1% to – 1%) readings from electrical circuits. Multiple readings can be measured including currents,...
View ArticleGet Ready for April Showers with Water Leak Detectors
We all know the rhyme that describes the spring weather, “April showers brings May flowers”…and floods. Almost every spring we can expect a flooded basement in my old house. Two years ago my family...
View ArticleExercising Health Food Safety and Temperature Logs to Prevent Law Suits
Just today, a client with a sushi restaurant requested an environmental monitoring system that would allow him to take temperature logs of his food products. Normally, Ravica sells our environmental...
View ArticlePay Attention to your Servers, Not Just your Server Room
Oftentimes, servers are treated as a whole and not paid attention to as a multiple unit in terms of temperature conditioning. Sure, it’s common knowledge that computer equipment generates heat, and...
View ArticlePutting Environmental Monitoring Sensors in the Right Place
I have blogged before about monitoring the environment with Ravica sensors to save on energy consumption. Installing a simple temperature monitoring sensor and humidity monitoring sensor in the office...
View ArticleThe Newest Version of SNMP: SNMPv3 Enabled Environmental Monitoring
Our environmental monitoring system uses the newest version SNMP application (SNMPv3). Ravica base units are SNMP enabled which allow the management software (environmental monitoring system) to notify...
View ArticleMajor Data Center Designs: Beat the Heat
Among the countless considerations to data center planning are temperature and humidity controls. Companies can invest as much as $200 million into building data centers, so of course many decisions...
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