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It’s hard to believe that 2018 already marks our 30th anniversary! AVTECH first opened in 1988 when our founder Michael Sigourney recognized a need to help businesses monitor their data and software systems. With computer systems quickly gaining popularity in the business place, as well as becoming mission-critical to day-to-day operations, AVTECH immediately made an […]

AVTECH is announcing that the Room Alert 32W monitor has reached End-of-Life, effective immediately. Since its release in 2011, the Room Alert 32W has helped countless organizations across the world proactively monitor and protect their IT environments, data centers, facilities, and more. The Room Alert 32W was originally introduced as an upgrade to the Room […]

The holidays are quickly approaching for many of us around the world. This is the time of year when many of us take vacation days to spend time with friends and family while we celebrate the season. Businesses and organizations may run on smaller staffing levels, while some may shut down entirely for a week […]

Today we unveiled our new RoomAlert.com website and account dashboard, which expands on the capabilities formerly available through our GoToMyDevices cloud monitoring platform.  All data contained in GoToMyDevices, including user accounts, devices, reports, and alerts, has been migrated to RoomAlert.com. You can read our official announcement here. Room Alert is much more than just the […]

AVTECH has been named a Silver winner in the Most Innovative Company of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards, the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America. Our Room Alert is the leading proactive environment monitoring solution for IT, data center, […]

AVTECH recently hosted an after-hours event together with CommerceRI and Bryant University at our offices in the historic Cutler Mill in Warren, RI. The event served to celebrate business growth here in Rhode Island, and we had the pleasure of networking with a wide range of business owners and elected officials that evening. Many of the businesses […]

Data center environment monitoring has been a core focus of ours for nearly 30 years. Room Alert and our sensors & software are designed to monitor, log, alert, and report on a wide number of environment factors that can cause downtime and damage in your data center (or nearly any other type of facility). Monitoring […]

Many organizations are using Room Alert to monitor temperature and humidity in their facilities worldwide. When you monitor both temperature and humidity, Room Alert is able to calculate heat index, and beginning this month, Room Alert will also be able to provide dew point values to users as well. Knowing the relative humidity in your […]

This week it was announced that a new IoT botnet malware called Reaper was spreading quickly around the internet, infecting over one million devices in a short period of time. What makes this botnet concerning is how sophisticated it is. Unlike the Mirai botnet which used default device passwords to spread, Reaper has the ability […]

For most organizations, the server room or data center is the lifeblood of their operations. It hosts their servers, network equipment, backup hardware, databases, and sometimes even the phone system as well. If the room overheats due to HVAC failure, it could very well cripple the organization indefinitely. Unfortunately, we receive calls almost daily from […]