| Perhaps the most common application for the | | | | Hospitals use many types of data logger for |
| use of the data logger in the world today is | | | | temperature recording. Fridges and freezers |
| for temperature logging. The temperature data | | | | where drugs and samples are stored will have |
| logger is used in factories, offices, | | | | a temperature data logger permanently |
| hospitals, museums, road transport, and | | | | installed. Incubators are also generally |
| outdoors for environmental monitoring. Here | | | | monitored for temperature and here a data |
| is an outline of typical temperature data | | | | logger is often used for historical data. |
| logger applications: | | | | |
| | | | Temperature data logger use in museums and |
| Temperature data logger use in factories | | | | art galleries |
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| The monitoring and logging of temperature is | | | | In paintings many artefacts are extremely |
| vital in many manufacturing processes. In the | | | | sensitive to temperature. It is common for a |
| food industry a temperature data logger is | | | | temperature data logger to be placed in each |
| often used to ensure that unprocessed food is | | | | room, and often within individual display |
| stored at the correct temperature in cold | | | | cases to monitor ambient temperature. In art |
| stores. It is also used in ovens and | | | | galleries paintings are very sensitive to |
| production lines to ensure the food has been | | | | temperature. As well as placing a data logger |
| heated to the correct temperature for the | | | | in each room, sometimes a temperature data |
| required length of time | | | | logger is also fitted within the frame of |
| | | | very old paintings, particularly those |
| In the semi conductor industry clean rooms | | | | painted on wood. |
| and production processes must be kept at a | | | | |
| constant temperature to ensure quality | | | | Temperature data logger use in environmental |
| control. Here the temperature data logger is | | | | monitoring |
| indispensable. | | | | |
| | | | In addition to general weather monitoring the |
| In brick works a temperature data logger is | | | | temperature data logger is used widely to log |
| used in the oven through process to ensure | | | | temperature over large areas where scientists |
| that bricks are cured to the correct | | | | and researchers need to have exact ground |
| temperature. | | | | temperature data. Typical examples are |
| | | | glaciers, rain forests, mountain areas, and |
| Temperature data logger us in offices | | | | polar regions. A temperature data logger can |
| | | | also be used to monitor rivers and lakes. |
| Many companies will position a temperature | | | | |
| data logger in main working areas throughout | | | | Temperature data logger use in road transport |
| their building to verify that a comfortable | | | | |
| temperature is maintained during working | | | | Sensitive or delicate goods, in particular |
| hours. Staff will sometimes complain that a | | | | foodstuffs can often be in transit for many |
| room is either too hot, or too cold. A data | | | | hours or days by road. A data logger can be |
| logger can be used to record the actual | | | | used to check that goods in refrigerated |
| temperature so that subjective judgments can | | | | trucks have been maintained at the correct |
| be corroborated. | | | | temperature throughout a journey. In the UK |
| | | | it is now a requirement to use a data logger |
| Temperature data logger use in hospitals | | | | to record temperature in vehicles used for |
| | | | livestock transportation. |