Choosing the Right Sensors for Your Facility
BzView's modular sensor design means you're never forced to pay for monitoring you don't need. Here's how to think through which sensors make sense for your space.
Start With What You're Protecting
The right sensors depend less on the building and more on what's inside it. A rack of servers, a batch of refrigerated stock, and a paper archive all fail in different ways and at different thresholds — so start by listing what could actually go wrong in your space.
Temperature
The most common sensor, and usually the first one any site needs. Useful almost everywhere: server rooms, warehouses, cold storage, labs, and offices. Pair it with a threshold tight enough to give you time to react before damage occurs.
Humidity
Critical for electronics, paper archives, pharmaceuticals, and certain manufacturing processes. Both excess humidity (corrosion, mold) and excessively low humidity (static discharge) can cause damage, so humidity sensors are usually configured with both upper and lower thresholds.
Air Pressure
Used in cleanrooms, labs, and HVAC-sensitive environments where pressure differentials need to stay within a specific range to maintain air quality or containment.
Water Leak Detection
A small probe placed at floor level near cooling units, pipes, or raised flooring can catch a leak within minutes rather than days — often the difference between a quick mop-up and a full equipment replacement.
Door / Open-Close
Useful for server cabinets, storage rooms, and secure areas where you want to know not just the room's conditions, but who's accessing it and when.
Power & Voltage
Monitors incoming power so you're alerted to outages or irregular voltage before they affect equipment — especially valuable alongside a UPS in a server room.
Putting It Together
Most sites end up combining two or three sensor types per device — for example, temperature and humidity in a wall-mount unit, or temperature, humidity and water leak detection in a rack-mount unit. If you're not sure where to start, talk to us and we'll recommend a configuration based on your space.