AVTECH Software (AVTECH) formally announced Room Alert 26W, the newest member of their popular Room Alert (TM) hardware line for IT environment and facilities monitoring. This new model sets the industry standard by utilizing wireless technology to have sensors 'report back' their status values to the main Room Alert 26W unit via a secure, private protocol that is ZigBee compatible and already approved in North America, Europe, United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand and the Pacific Rim. This method eliminates common user concerns about the security of wireless products and allows users the ability to monitor large numbers of sensors indoors and out without cables, informs the company's press release.
Sensors are a critical part of monitoring environment conditions in computer rooms, data centers, rack cabinets, telecom closets, basements, warehouses or other locations. The physical conditions where valuable equipment operates will cause serious problems if they exceed certain threshold parameters for temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke and more. Storage of food products, medicine, raw materials, packaged products and records are also vulnerable and may need monitoring as required by government regulation. Room Alert 26W monitors these conditions and more to immediately alert managers and staff, allowing an immediate response and automatic corrective action to avoid or minimize downtime and costly damage. For users that desire logging, sensor data can be logged forever, limited only by disk space, and is easily exported for creating graphs and charts.
The Room Alert 26W has built-in sensors for temperature, humidity, power and flood. It even includes a built-in UPS to get the alerts out when a catastrophic power failure occurs. It allows direct connection of digital and switch based sensors through 26 built-in sensor ports and contact sets, as well as via AVTECH's Wireless Sensor Hubs which are commonly referred to as WiSH Sensors.
Room Alert 26W is a 1U 19" rack mount unit that fits into a standard rack cabinet. It includes mounting screws and has wings that turn to allow easy wall, under-cabinet or table-top mounting. It connects to the network via Ethernet and includes a 10' Ethernet cable. The Room Alert 26W has six standard RJ-11 ports on the front of the unit for connection of AVTECH Digital Temperature/Humidity, Digital Temperature and/or Digital Power Sensors. Digital sensors connect via RJ-11 (phone) cable and can be located up to approximately 100' away.
On the back of Room Alert 26W there are 16 switch sensor channels for connection of external sensors like power, flood, smoke, motion, air flow, room entry, sound, light, panic buttons and others. User's can also connect to non-voltage (dry) contacts on other devices like air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, alarm systems, generators, pumps and more. These switch sensors and devices can be located up to approximately 900' away and connect via standard twisted pair wiring.
Once Room Alert 26W is installed, it is able to immediately communicate with any enabled WiSH Sensors that can be located up to approximately 250' away indoors and in some cases up to almost a mile away outside with a direct 'line of sight'. WiSH Sensors are about the size of a BlackBerry (TM) and have a built-in Digital Temperature Sensor, 2 digital sensors ports and a set of switch sensor contacts where wired sensors can be attached.
Room Alert 26W allows users to monitor multiple environments using their favorite web browser via Room Alert's built-in web server. No PC Is Required. However, users can also use their favorite monitoring software, like AVTECH's PageR Enterprise (TM) to monitor unlimited Room Alert units network-wide via SNMP. This will significantly extend the alerting methods, add automatic corrective actions and enable network-wide monitoring from a central location.

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