Environment Monitoring

EventSentry can monitor temperature, humidity, motion, smoke and water through external sensors attached to the serial port. The hardware sensors are sold separately and can either be obtained from http://www.netikus.net (if you are located in the US) or directly from PCMeasure in Germany if you are located outside the US.

The following features are available and are configured through the Environment option of the management application. All alerts generated by the environment monitoring feature are written to the Application event log.

EventSentry currently only supports sensors from PCMeasure, and some of the supported sensors require additional hardware. The table below outlines the requirements:

Sensor Description	Manufacturer Model Number	Connectors on sensor	Requires USB port	Requires serial port	Requires adapter (RJ-45 to serial)	Requires driver software (included)
Temperature / Humidity (serial port)	30106	9-pin serial, USB	yes, for power	yes	no	no
Temperature / Humidity (USB)	30602	USB	yes	no	no	yes
Temperature	30101	RJ-45	yes, for power	yes	yes	no
Humidity	30103	RJ-45	yes, for power	yes	yes	no
Water	30115	RJ-45	yes, for power	yes	yes	no
Smoke	30111	RJ-45	yes, for power	yes	yes	no
Motion	30114	RJ-45	yes, for power	yes	yes	no

On all sensors/adapters except for sensor 30602, the USB connectors are only used to draw power. Data from the sensors is transmitted via the serial port. In order to use the sensors, you have to connect both the USB and the serial connector.

For sensors requiring adapters (see right column "Requires adapter"), the following serial adapters exist. Each adapter as one 9-pin serial and one USB port, as well as one or more RJ-45 connectors to connect the actual sensors.

Adapter Description	Manufacturer Model Number	Number of RJ-45 connectors
1-port serial adapter	30201	1
2-port serial adapter	30203	2
4-port serial adapter	30205	4

Sensor connected to the serial adapters must be unique; you cannot currently attach one sensor type more than once on the same adapter.

Temperature Monitoring

•	Alert when the temperature is outside a configured range

•	Record temperature in database, view historical data web reports

•	Fahrenheit / Celsius support

Temperature + Humidity Monitoring

•	Alert when the humidity is outside a configured range

•	Record humidity in database, view historical data with web reports

Motion Sensors

•	Alert when motion is detected

•	Records motion activity in database

•	Requires serial adapter

Smoke Sensor

The smoke sensor is attached to the serial port and can alert you whenever smoke is detected.

Water Sensor

The water sensor is attached to the serial port and can alert you whenever water is detected.

Please see the next chapter for more information on the configuration of various sensors.