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discussion / Biologging  / 27 September 2022

Humidity/Temperature/Light Level logger

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I am looking for a small logger that can collect humidity, temperature, and light levels while being hung from a fishing line over a cliff. I have found units that can collect the first two parameters (iButtons) and some that can collect the latter two (HOBOs), but none that can simultaneously collect all three. Any advice would be great!

Thanks,
David



Rick Jordan
@Rick
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Institute

7 October 2022 4:50pm

Hi David,

I've used our monitoring platform, PRTG (www.paessler.com), with environmental sensors for a server room, which included temperature and humidity. The monitoring platform is free up to a certain amount of sensors, so if this would be all you were using it for then it would be completely free of cost. Some hardware devices for environmental monitoring they have listed in one of their knowledge base articles are listed below, none of which I've used, but perhaps one of these would work, and if not, it will put you on the right track if you wanted to pursue this type of solution for what you are looking to do:

"All of these vendors offer physical sensors that can provide data about their environment. Connected to some kind of SNMP-enabled “management box” these sensors become network-enabled."

Cheers!

Rick