TL;DR: Archive storage conditions come down to four agents of deterioration: relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants. The Archives and Records Association advises a consistent relative humidity between 35% and 60%, cool conditions with gradual rather than sudden change, and notes that light damage is cumulative and cannot be reversed. The Canadian Conservation Institute measures…
TL;DR: A building without a building management system usually finds out its heating has failed when the radiators go cold. Plant room monitoring closes that gap with five checks: the boiler or pump panel’s fault contact, flow temperature, return temperature, the room itself and water on the floor. Wireless sensors report each one to a…
TL;DR: A vacant property is visited once a week at best, and most of what damages it happens in the days between. Insurer guidance such as Aviva’s expects internal and external inspections at least every seven days, because burst pipes and water ingress in empty buildings can go undiscovered. Door, temperature, humidity and leak sensors…
TL;DR: Cellar monitoring for a pub or bar watches five things: cellar temperature, the cooler, CO2 at low level, humidity and the hatch. Cask ale is served at cellar temperature, and most brewers recommend 11 to 13°C. CO2 matters for safety as well as beer, because HSE warns it is heavier than air and has…
TL;DR: UK law says the temperature in an indoor workplace must be reasonable during working hours. The Approved Code of Practice puts the minimum at 16°C, or 13°C for strenuous work, and there is no legal maximum, because heat is treated as a hazard to be risk assessed instead. Less well known, the Workplace Regulations…
TL;DR: ASHRAE recommends an inlet air temperature of 18 to 27°C for every class of IT equipment, with humidity held below 60% RH. The part of the room that punishes a warm day hardest is the UPS: lead acid batteries lose roughly half their life for every 8 to 10°C above 25°C. So the server…
Four washroom sensor types compared on what they measure, battery life and price, with the cost arithmetic showing why the odour detector should be fitted selectively rather than as standard.
A magnetic contact cannot prove Regulation 10 compliance, because a defeated self-closer still reads as closed. What a door sensor genuinely adds between quarterly inspections, and what it costs.
Radar fall detection with no image capture, so it can go in a bedroom or an en-suite. Coverage, mounting height, the power constraint, and how to pilot it before it enters a care plan.
A vape detector is an air quality sensor with no camera and no microphone, which is why it can go in a toilet block. What the GS601 measures, the power constraint nobody mentions, and how to run a pilot.