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Data centers are heavily guarded against intrusion and network data loss. Cyber-attacks and cybercrime remain among the top reasons for data center outages, and data center owners as well as businesses that operate their own data center have multiple safeguards in place to protect them. Unplanned data center outages come from many sources, however. Environment […]

To help kick off a strong and successful 2017 for our customers and resellers, we wanted to bring back one of our most popular promotions: the ‘Buy Three, Get One Free‘ offer on the Room Alert 3E! The Room Alert 3E has long been one of our most popular environment monitors. It’s low cost, small […]

Businesses often protect themselves against smoke and fire damage by installing and maintaining smoke detectors and fire suppression systems. What many businesses don’t protect against is water damage. In fact, properties are 10 times more likely to suffer from water damage than they are from fire damage. Water damage can come from a variety of […]

It’s a wet time of year for a lot of regions, and it’s going to remain that way for quite some time. The western United States are seeing record rain amounts causing damaging flooding over a wide area.  Here in the northeastern United States, we’ve been hit with snow, high winds, and heavy rain all […]

This is the time in every new year when individuals and businesses across the globe make New Year’s resolutions, in hopes of improving over last year. Thankfully a good number of companies are making the implementation of a business continuity plan a top priority to help protect them in the event of a major outage. […]

In a few past installments, we’ve looked at how we’ve used Room Alert and RoomAlert.com here at AVTECH to monitor our own facilities. Thankfully alerts have let us know when we’ve experienced environment issues in our own datacenter as well as within our building. In fact, some of those instances have led to improvements and […]

We’re right at that time of year when many businesses either shut down for the holidays, or have a skeleton crew manning the office or warehouse. We’re also at the time of year when weather conditions turn much worse for most of the world; cold snaps, snow, and ice all can wreak havoc on an […]

Axis camera integration was one of the top new features we introduced with GoToMyDevices 2.0. Users had been eagerly anticipating capturing live snapshots from their connected Axis cameras, which would help them better troubleshoot the alerts sent from their Room Alert. We’ve discussed some of the other new GoToMyDevices features in detail, such as custom […]

We’ve always taken pride in the fact that Room Alert is made in the USA, and trusted to monitor some of the most important facilities and assets in 185 countries around the world (as of the publishing of this article). Since Room Alert is made in the USA, it is TAA compliant and available for […]

Smart buildings are quickly growing in popularity across the globe, and for good reason. Smart buildings help conserve costs on heating, air conditioning, power, and more while also helping to reduce impact on the environment. Automation in smart buildings also helps increase productivity by automatically adjusting temperature and light levels for maximum comfort. Much of […]