Environmental monitoring
Remotely monitoring key environmental conditions including temperature, humidity, dew point, water ingress, light levels and airflow
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Spook's award winning remote monitoring service called OmniWatch centrally monitors key environmental conditions across many different industry sectors.
Monitoring the environment is important for many reasons, whether it's temperature monitoring for air conditioning units or refrigeration units or water monitoring for leaking pipes, trapped water or even floods, the range of climate monitoring by Spook is extensive.
Spook and OmniWatch was voted Specialist Technology Company of the Year and Most Innovative Solution of the Year at the annual UK CIR Business Continuity Awards.
Temperature
Temperature monitoring is a critical condition to monitor for climate control and is perhaps the most commonly measured condition of all environmental states.
Whether you need to know if it's too hot, too cold or simply that there is a rapid change; measuring thermal activity is key to climate monitoring.
Humidity
Measuring relative humidity (RH) is important because the amount of water that can be contained within a volume of air is not fixed. As air temperature increases it has the ability to hold more water vapour.
High or low humidity can directly impact the safe running of electrical equipment.
Dew point
Dew point is a calculation between temperature and relative humidity. Dew point is the point at which water vapour in the air starts condensing.
Dew point is always expressed as a unit of temperature (°C).
Airflow
Airflow is important to ensure ducts and airways are free from blockage. However, since the Covid-19 epidemic of 2020 airflow monitoring is fast becoming a necessity.
According to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) the risk of air conditioning spreading coronavirus in the workplace is extremely low as long as there is an adequate supply of fresh air and ventilation.
Water ingress
Monitoring water ingress is usually critical as water has the power to cause immediate disruption. Water has the potential to do the most damage in the shortest amount of time.
Whether there is a burst water pipe, build up of storm water or a boiler leak; knowing there is water ingress gives valuable early warning time to remedy matters before it becomes a deluge.
Light
Monitoring light has many applications, from knowing whether lights are on or off for safety reasons to more security based applications such as monitoring light in parking lots, garages and common areas of use in commercial buildings.
Measuring light is also important to offices and office workers. Regulation no.8 of the Workplace Regulations Act 1992 gives guidance to what is needed.
OmniWatch digital dashboards
Spook's secure remote monitoring service called OmniWatch is designed to work with any climate measuring hardware and sensors; making monitoring the environment easy, cohesive and technically advanced.
OmniWatch's main function is to alert users to changes to the sensors being monitored via email, SMS and UK call centre. In addition, Spook understands that a users real-time dashboards must be intuitive yet functionally rich. That's why OmniWatch's functionality has been, and continues to be, designed by customer led feedback.
Spook's customers range from organisations that have already invested in climate monitoring equipment and want a central cloud based service that is easy to use and functionally advanced to businesses that are considering monitoring for the first time and want a hassle free, out-of-box monitoring solution.
New to monitoring
We help organisations start monitoring projects from scratch. We have a wealth of experience that is free and helpful in creating an informed approach to monitoring.
We are also resellers to industry leading sensor and equipment manufacturers and can recommend the most appropriate hardware and sensors to fit any size monitoring project.
We had been considering monitoring for a while but did not have the resource or the knowledge to fully understand how to go about doing things from scratch.
We approached Spook as they have lots of experience in looking independently at monitoring projects. They recommended and provided the most appropriate hardware and sensors for us.
The sensors arrived pre-configured and were implemented on OmniWatch by Spook before we installed them.
Additional monitoring
Many of our customers have tried monitoring for themselves.
This ranges from institutions that rely on equipment onboard data loggers and communications cards; to organisations that have started monitoring projects but need help to extend monitoring to new areas and/or implement a central monitoring solution.
We needed a remote monitoring service that did not require an on premise PC and was independent of our network.
Spook provided pre-configured cellular routers for each of our five locations across the UK. The whole project was a simple plug-and-play solution with no involvement from us.
We had been considering monitoring for a while but did not have the resource or the knowledge to fully understand how to go about doing things.
When we Googled the various areas of interest we got more confused.
We approached Spook as they have a different outlook to simply buying hardware and sensors. Thankfully we now have a fully installed, joined up monitoring solution.
We had a series of climate monitors installed in our server rooms. Due to a change in our security policy we needed a remote monitoring service that did not require an on premise PC and was independent of our network.
Spook suggested a technology upgrade and provided pre-configured cellular routers for each of our five server locations across the UK. The whole project was a simple plug-and-play solution with no involvement from us.
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Please contact us if you wish for further information on how Spook can help with your environmental and power monitoring needs.