Fluke 1620 Temp/Humidity Networking

[PMEL-73]

Hey everybody,
Anybody here network two or more Fluke 1620 temp/humidity monitors?  And advice?  We have two but they both came from the factory without mac id's so we need to send them back and we are starting to wonder if it is worth the effort.  We do use Met/Cal and Met/Team so the integration would be nice!

[metrologygeek]

We support a mix of Fluke 1620's, Newports and Vaisalas that are all networked environmental monitors and the Vaisala products are (IMHO) by far the best.

[N79]

Yeah, you can network them together with a computer and a router/switch. They act as mini-computers on a network and even serve a webpage with temp/humidity information if you type in the IP address in a web browser.
We have software that polls/records all of our 100+ loggers into a database and a really easy to use front-end for viewing this data. This software sends out e-mail alerts when an out-of-tolerance environmental condition occurs and another when it has been back in tolerance for X number of minutes. If you're in a gov't lab maybe we can see about giving you this software.
Otherwise, Fluke sells LogWare which I don't really like but would probably work OK for just a couple of loggers.
Or you could roll your own... it uses commands over TCP/IP instead of GPIB but otherwise works the same as any other remote programmable instrument.

[scottbp]

So what is this magic software/database with the easy to use front end that you speak of? Is it something commercially available, or is it something developed in-house? We have 24 1620As company wide spread out over four locations, and many have two probes. The built-in web page for the 1620As no longer works with the latest versions of Java; therefore we can't fetch the readings remotely or send commands via the terminal, and keeping up with them all via Fluke's LogWare is a nightmare.

[N79]

It is in-house software. We've had it running for years now without a hiccup. I doubt we could give it out to a commercial lab, but we *may* be able to provide it to other gov't labs.