Central Monitoring Systems 101: Better Control Of Critical Assets

Professionals working in any regulated environment know all too well that the technologies and devices used to perform everyday tasks vary by department, lab, floor, building and even by office. This is especially true when it comes to environmental and temperature monitoring. Some departments may use chart recorders, others manually record temperatures twice per day, while the laboratory down the hall uses thermometers, and then another area has stand-alone data loggers. While all these methods may meet very basic regulatory guidelines, as a facility, is your data easily accessible and are the appropriate alarm methods in place? If the answer is no, consider a central monitoring system to streamline data storage.