Data loggers that became popular over the last decade are beginning to see a dramatic decline in sales as newer technologies automate this function. Although the need to monitor environmental conditions continues to rise, static products that require physical management are seeing a trend of early retirement. This has dramatically accelerated over the past year. The reason is simply that we live in a web world where everything is connected and automated solutions can be easily and inexpensively deployed in minutes to meet today's regulatory requirements, consolidate data, allow real-time web access, send alerts and take automatic corrective action.
Newer and more cost effective solutions like AVTECH's TemPageR and Room Alert products have been linked as a cause for the retirement of many data loggers. Apparently, people don't want to continually purchase, load and collect little printed data charts any more. Data loggers are much more expensive over time and require someone to manage them on a regular basis. Newer technologies are less expensive, easier to install, easier to manage and provide automation that saves time and labor.