ONSET UX100-003 Hobo Data Loggers Installation Guide
- June 5, 2024
- Onset
Table of Contents
HOBO Data Loggers
Use Case:
Monitoring Conditions for
Hardwood Flooring Installations
Problem
Expensive hardwood floors come with a warranty. Without solid evidence that indoor environmental conditions are appropriately maintained during and after installation, a flooring company could find itself on the hook for damage caused by something over which it has no control. With this in mind, the owner of an award-winning wood floor installation company in Baltimore, MD reached out to Onset for an easy-to-deploy HOBO monitoring solution that gives him the data he needs to not only ensure a quality installation but also to protect his company from being held responsible for damage caused by poor facility management.
Solution
To replace the flooring company’s current method of checking one-time high/low
temperature and humidity readings with small devices purchased from The Home
Depot, Onset recommended the affordable, Bluetooth-enabled HOBO MX1101
Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger with LCD display or the rugged HOBO
MX2301A Temperature/Relative Humidity data logger. With just a smartphone,
tablet, or Windows computer running the free HOBOconnect app, when within 100
feet of these loggers the user can wirelessly download highly accurate
temperature and humidity data, view graphs for easy trend analysis and
seamlessly share data files via text or email.
The flooring company selected the HOBO MX2301A logger, built with IP67-rated
housing to withstand harsh environments. Unlike The Home Depot solution, the
HOBO solution provides continuous readings over time. And because there’s no
need to physically retrieve the unit to download data, the loggers can be
deployed in harder-to-reach locations (even under floorboards) where they’re
less apt to go missing.
Results
Once the contract has been signed and the Jobsite surveyed, the flooring
company immediately deploys at least one HOBO MX2301A data logger at the site,
informs the general contractor of the deployment, and begins logging
temperature and relative humidity measurements every 15 minutes. The
historical record of the indoor environmental conditions is the critical
evidence the flooring company needs if the quality of its work is ever called
into question.
For example, the company was able to produce a HOBO data graph that showed
spikes of 98% humidity every weekend during the summer in a recreation center
where the gym floor became entirely buckled. It turns out that the spikes in
humidity were due to the facility shutting off the air-conditioning on the
weekends. But without the data to prove it, the company would have had to
spend time and money to replace the floor.
Now, the company is looking into further increasing its cost savings by
reducing the need for multiple site visits with the addition of the MX
Gateway, a small device that automatically transmits data from MX Series data
loggers right to the cloud. And, for larger-scale projects, the owner is also
excited about the possibility of using Onset’s award-winning HOBOnet system, a
cost-effective, powerful network of wireless sensors that sends indoor
environmental data straight to the cloud via a HOBO RX monitoring
station.
We started putting (HOBO MX2301A data loggers) in on every job, and it has
made a world of difference. They’re worth gold, they really are.
– Russ Sterner, MasterCare Flooring
Products Used
Product | How it was used |
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HOBO MX2301A Temp/RH Data Loggers | To monitor air temperature and relative |
humidity
HOBOconnect app| To wirelessly offload data from the HOBO loggers
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Documents / Resources
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ONSET UX100-003 Hobo Data
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[pdf] Installation Guide
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