What is a Data Logger?

Since you got to this page, you must be asking yourself "What is a Data Logger?" Wikipedia defines data logger as:

" an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors."

Data loggers, or data recorders as they are sometimes called, encompass a range of products including software and hardware. We specialize in stand-alone devices that can record information electronically from internal or external sensors or other equipment that provides digital or serial outputs.

Key features of the data loggers we provide include:

1. Stand-alone operation - The data loggers are normally configured with a PC although some models can be configured from the front panel. Once configured they don't need the PC to operate. Many of the loggers can be started and stopped via a button or external switch. Also, all of the loggers we provide have built-im memory for measured data - see #3 below.
2. Support for multiple sensor types - We offer data loggers with both dedicated input types (thermocouple, RTD, humidity, voltage, etc.) and universal input loggers that allow the input channels to be configured for specific sensor by the user, either through software or configuration switches.
3. Local data storage - All of the data logger we provide have local data storage, so all of the measured data is stored within the logger for later transfer to a PC.Software provided with the loggers allows measured data to be easily downloaded to a PC for analysis and archiving.
4. Automatic data collection - Our data loggers will collect data at regular intervals, 24 hours a day 365 days a year if necessary. You don't need to rely on a person or a PC to take a measurement.

Some of the other data logging products available include software data logging programs that run on a PC and use either plug in cards or external data acquisition hard ware.