Roomate is one of Richcomm's hardware solutions for "UPS, Computer Room Environment Monitoring, Alerting and Automatic Corrective Action". It is designed specifically to assist with UPS, computer room temperature, humidity and environment monitoring in multiple locations simultaneously. Roomate allows alert notifications
via email, email-to-SMS, SNMP and more to devices like UPS, computers, mobile
phones, pagers and PDAs. Roomate also offers an easy to use web browser interface
for settings changes and viewing real-time temperature, humidity and environment
sensor status from anywhere.
Roomate monitors rooms ranging from very small, unmanned phone or wiring closets
to extremely large, corporate data centers. Since Roomate is connected via Ethernet
and does not require a host PC for operation, it can monitor virtually anywhere
there is an Ethernet connection or that an Ethernet cable can be run. This means
inside a rack cabinet, air vent, sub floor or other location. Roomate includes
one (1) external 'digital' temperature / humidity sensor, one (1) external 'digital'
temperature sensor and one (1) external power sensor that can be extended
approximately 100 feet from the Roomate ID Box. On the back of the Roomate unit
are 8 built-in switch sensor contact sets that can accommodate a variety of environment sensors. Sensors are available to monitor temperature, humidity, power,
flood, smoke, air flow, room entry, panic buttons and more. Wherever environment
monitoring is important. Roomate acts like a silent watchman to alert the right
people at the right time and by the right method when environment changes occur.
