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    SenseStack vs Thermometer Logs

    Thermometer logs were a reasonable answer in 1995. Today they capture single-point snapshots that miss the entire heat-up curve, every drift event and every overnight failure. They are also trivially easy to misrecord.

    Thermometer logs

    • Sample rate
    • Sensor scope
    • Time-stamping
    • Reporting
    • Alerts

    SenseStack

    • Sample rate
    • Sensor scope
    • Time-stamping
    • Reporting
    • Alerts
    Dimension
    Thermometer logs
    SenseStack
    Sample rate
    1–4 readings per day per unit.
    Continuous, sub-minute resolution.
    Sensor scope
    Temperature only.
    Temperature, humidity, air quality, motion, battery, connectivity.
    Time-stamping
    Hand-written, often back-filled.
    Server time-stamped, tamper-evident.
    Reporting
    Manually transcribed if reporting is needed at all.
    Exportable history per device, per period.
    Alerts
    None.
    Attention, Offline, Preparing, Recovering — surfaced live.

    A clipboard tells you a sauna was once 78°C at 9:14am. SenseStack tells you the entire operating story for every unit, every day.