The most common usage of the data logger today worldwide is for temperature data logging. The temperature data logger is used in offices, museums, factories, hospitals, road transport, and outdoors for monitoring the environment. Below is a summary of the most common temperature data logger applications:
Temperature data logger applications in factory environments
In the semi conductor industry production processes and clean rooms must be kept at a constant temperature to for quality control purposes. Here the temperature data logger is indispensable
The logging and monitoring of temperature is essential in many manufacturing processes. In the food industry a temperature data logger is commonly used to ensure that food is stored at the optimum temperature in cold storage rooms. It is also used in production lines and ovens to make sure the food has been heated to the correct temperature for the required time period
In brick works a temperature data logger is used in the oven through the process to make sure that bricks are baked to the right temperature level
Temperature data logger applications in road transport
Sensitive or delicate goods, and foodstuffs can often be in transit for many hours or days road vehicles. A data logger can be used to ensure that goods in refrigerated trucks have been kept at the correct temperature during a journey. In the UK it is now a requirement to use a data logger to record temperature in vehicles used for livestock transportation.
Temperature data logger applications in offices
Often a company will place a temperature data logger in main working areas throughout their building to check that a comfortable temperature is maintained during office hours. Workers will sometimes complain that a room is either too cold, or too hot. A data logger can be used to record the actual temperature so that subjective judgments can be corroborated or
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Temperature data logger use in art galleries and museums
Artefacts and paintings can be very sensitive to temperature changes. It is common for a temperature data logger to be placed in each room, and also within display cases to monitor ambient temperature. In art galleries paintings are very sensitive to temperature. As well as placing a data logger in each room, sometimes a temperature data logger is also fitted within the frame of very old paintings, particularly those painted on wood
Temperature data logger applications in healthcare
Hospitals use many types of data logger for temperature logging. Freezers and fridges where samples and drugs are stored often have a temperature data logger permanently installed. Incubators are also usually monitored for temperature and here a data logger can be used to log historical temperature data.
Temperature data logger applications in environmental monitoring
As well as general weather monitoring the temperature data logger is used widely to log temperature over large areas where researchers and scientists need to have precise ground temperature data. Typical examples are rain forests, mountain areas, glaciers and Polar Regions. A temperature data logger can also be used to monitor lakes and rivers.
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