Gemini: Using Data Loggers to Help Analyse Environmental Conditions and Energy Usage in Buildings

Gemini Tinytag Data Loggers record environmental parameters over time, allowing conditions to be measured, documented, analysed, and validated. Loggers in the range monitor temperature, relative humidity, energy usage, carbon dioxide, voltage, current and count, and are ideally suited to indoor building monitoring where size, flexibility and portability may be important.

Tinytags are a useful tool in the drive towards energy efficient buildings, providing concise and accurate data about the actual environmental conditions at various locations or throughout a building. This data provides the information required to assist research and decision making in energy performance, and for evaluating the benefit of any improvement measures that are tested or put in place.

Typical Applications

Monitoring the performance of HVAC systems/building control systems

Temperature and relative humidity data loggers are used to validate whether heating, air-conditioning or building control systems are working correctly, and help assess overall energy efficiency.

In addition, energy consumption loggers can be used to help check motor efficiency and record power usage in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units.

Air quality monitoring

Monitoring indoor air quality (IAQ) in order to prevent carbon dioxide levels exceeding recommended limits is desirable, or even mandatory, in many types of building. Carbon dioxide data loggers are a useful tool in helping to regulate IAQ and in turn assessing the effectiveness of HVAC control measures.

Monitoring the efficiency of building materials

Energy consumption and temperature/humidity data loggers can be used to research and assess the efficiency savings generated by different building materials such as roof, wall and window insulation.

Monitoring the efficiency of equipment, e.g. boilers

Count data loggers can help assess boiler efficiency, monitoring consumption and recording profiles over time. Voltage loggers can record when a boiler is firing to help evaluate optimum performance. Temperature loggers can be used for measuring flow and return temperatures on pipework.

Flexible and Easy to Use

Using data loggers to record accurate information over time is much more effective for creating comprehensive profiles throughout a site than taking periodic manual readings.

Tinytag Data Loggers are easy to use and cost-effective. Small stand-alone loggers are left to record as required and data is downloaded via a USB cable to a PC for analysis. In sites with multiple monitoring points where automatic data collection is needed, or where it needs to be available for immediate viewing at a central location, Tinytag Radio and/or LAN Data Loggers are an ideal solution.

Data is gathered automatically and sent using wireless communications or via an Ethernet point for viewing on a PC, across a LAN, or remotely across the internet. Radio and LAN data loggers can be mixed and matched to meet particular site layout and infrastructure requirements.

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Scientific House,
Terminus Road,
Chichester,
West Sussex,
United Kingdom,
PO19 8UJ

Phone: 01243 813000
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