{"id":218,"date":"2011-02-23T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T20:02:59","slug":"wireless-temperature-sensor-monitors-garages-remote-buildings-and-outdoors-real-life-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wireless-temperature-sensor-monitors-garages-remote-buildings-and-outdoors-real-life-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Temperature Sensor Monitors Garages, Remote Buildings and Outdoors: Real Life Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WirelessMinnesota is known for its bitterly cold winters and heavy snowfall.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Beginning in December, arctic air pushes down from Canada and temperatures can sink to below 0o<\/sup>F for days on end.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The sub-zero temperatures impact everyone\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s lifestyle in Minnesota and can make doing business a real challenge for people like Ernie Johnson of Duluth.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 A wireless temperature sensor<\/a> turned out to be the answer to one of his biggest problems.<\/p>\n

Ernie owns a carpet cleaning business and parks his fully-loaded van in an unheated garage at night.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 This arrangement works fine in the warmer months, but in the wintertime when the cold Canadian winds are blowing, Ernie has to carefully control and monitor the garage temperature to prevent his liquid cleaning supplies from freezing.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI use a portable space heater at night to keep the garage temperature above 45o<\/sup>F,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Ernie explains, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cbut sometimes the darn thing trips the circuit breaker and power goes out.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 By the time I discover that the heater was off all night, my liquids are frozen solid!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

Ernie wondered if there was some kind of wireless temperature sensor<\/a> that would warn him if the temperature in his garage was getting dangerously low.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He wasn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t too hopeful because his detached garage has no phone line to send out a communication, but a phone call to DIYControls<\/a> pointed him to a system that would solve his problem \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 the Skylink wireless temperature sensor<\/a>. <\/strong>The Skylink Wireless Freeze Temperature Alert & Phone Dialer<\/a> is designed to monitor the temperature of a specific area, indoors or outdoors, and send a signal to an emergency phone dialer<\/a> to relay the alert.<\/p>\n

Ernie learned that he could put the Skylink temperature sensor<\/a> in his garage and program it to transmit an alert when the garage temperature dropped below a set-point.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The phone dialer<\/a>, which could be located in his nearby house, could be programmed to call Ernie\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s cell phone with an emergency message.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The price of the Skylink <\/a>system was within Ernie\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s budget and the system was a cinch to install.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 He placed his order immediately.<\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cTwo weeks after I installed my Skylink <\/a>system, the portable heater tripped the circuit breaker and the temperature in the garage began to plummet,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Ernie says.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cBut my Skylink Wireless Freeze Temperature Alert & Phone Dialer<\/a> <\/strong>called my cell phone with a warning message and I was able to attend to the problem before the temps reached the freezing mark and my supplies froze.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

To monitor temperatures in a home or any kind of building, home, garage or greenhouse — or even in a specific outdoor area — a wireless temperature sensor<\/a> <\/strong>used in conjunction with a remotely-located phone dialer<\/a> is an affordable solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota is known for its bitterly cold winters and heavy snowfall.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Beginning in December, arctic air pushes down from Canada and temperatures can sink to below 0oF for days on end.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 The sub-zero temperatures impact everyone\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s lifestyle in Minnesota and can make doing business a… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[12,11,26,27],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freeze-alarms-heat-alarms","category-home-monitoring-security","tag-freeze-alarm","tag-freeze-alarms-2","tag-wireless-freeze-alarm","tag-wireless-freeze-alarms","clearfix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.diycontrols.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}