Property Management
We often get calls that start with something like, “We just had a cold spell that froze water pipes, causing a flood in our client’s condos. The cost of repairs will be several thousand dollars, assuming the sheetrock doesn’t need to be replaced.” We don’t like to hear these stories and the pain and expense they bring, but we understand that managing property in climates with changing weather and temperature is a fact of life.
Temperarture@lert’s WiFi and Cellular Edition monitoring devices provide a cost-effective solution to vacation home owners and property mangers alike. Customers set the temperature at which they’ll receive an alert, and the device does the rest. WiFi Edition is often used where the property owner or property manager’s WiFi network is available. Cellular Edition does not rely on WiFi networks to send data, national cellular carrier signals provide the channel. And Cellular Edition’s back-up battery assures that when power is lost, the property is still being monitored for up to two weeks.
Temperature@lert’s Sensor Cloud service, standard with Cellular Edition, optional with WiFi edition, provides access from any web-connected device, so you can see what’s going on 24/7 from any location worldwide. With reporting frequency as low as 1 minute, Temperature@lert provides the advanced warning property owners and mangers appreciate.
Staying Out of Hot Water with Monitored Water Heaters!
College dormitories are naturally maintenance-heavy facilities. Residencies often receive numerous maintenance requests a day. As a facilities manager, it is crucial to be notified immediately of any problems with water or air temperature as they occur, before they become problems for your tenants. Moreover, keeping logs of water and air temperature throughout the facility is an invaluable resource to reassure tenants that you are aware of the problem and have promptly taken appropriate action.
That is why Bluefield State College Research and Development Corporation, a Bluefield West Virginia based non-profit organization that provides dormitory housing for higher education, conference room facilities, technology-based small business incubator facilities, and economic development enhancement for southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia has deployed Temperature@lert’s WiFi Edition to ensure that environmental controls and necessary amenities can be easily and safely monitored by student Resident Advisors (RA’s).
Gerald James, Executive Director
“Temperature@lert's Wi-Fi Edition is a valuable tool to assure our customers that any issues with hot water, heating and AC, or pool heat are immediately addressed. We now enjoy the advantages of a networked notification solution that reliably creates and sends alerts at times when issues occur without the expensive implementation and overhead typically associated with other systems. In the past, checking these systems involved either waiting on a report of failure from a customer or sending a student RA around to physically check the systems. Now these systems are monitored from the front desk and the automatic alerts allow us to get an immediate start in resolving the failure."
In one memorable incident, a student who was concerned about hot water temperature in his room was able to be shown immediately that the water temperature in the hot water supply system had not only been operating the morning in question, but continuously for the past several weeks. “Being able to immediately pull up the data with the student and view the graph together helped not only to address a potentially legitimate complaint but also assured the student our operations were being continuously monitored and when problems arise, we are notified and can address them right away,” noted Mr. James.
Temperature@lert WiFi Edition
Better Check Your Utilities!
Property management involves much upfront investment for commercially and residentially zoned buildings. This immense investment needs to be protected and properly managed in order to maintain the integrity of the land and/or building.
Saint Credit Property Services requested Temperature@lert’s help in maintaining and recording the temperature of over 10 utility closets for each of their properties. The temperature of these rooms affected the functionality of the entire building. Monitoring and ensuring the integrity of these utility closets significantly reduced cost and worry for Saint Credit Property Services.
Jenny C.
“We found a need in commercial real estate to monitor the temperature of our properties. We decided to purchase the Temperature@lert’s cellular device due to our installation location. We are using these devices to monitor the temperature of our utility rooms in our vacant properties. All of our utilities (phone, water, heat, sprinkler, etc) are in one central location. If the temperature were to exceed a certain level, the entire utility system of the vacant property would be destroyed. Replacing or fixing these utility lines would cost lots of money and time.
The Temperature@lert cellular device was easy to install and use. We installed upward of 10 units in each of our properties. So far, our experience with the product has been positive and we look forward to work with Temperature@lert in the future.”
Temperature@lert Cellular Edition
Don’t Let the Pipes Freeze
When Tom started looking at ways to ensure that the pipes in his Michigan vacation home didn’t freeze over the long, dormant winter, he noticed a major problem with existing products. Whether it was internet access or a phone line, they all required a wire into the home to be able to send out an alarm.
When a winter storm rolls through and knocks out power and phone lines, the out-of-the-way, rural vacation home spots are usually the last to have services restored. Not knowing how long it would take to restore power, it became clear that the existing temperature monitoring options weren’t going to suffice.
Tom chose the Temperature@lert cellular device because it sends temperature readings over the AT&T/T-Mobile wireless phone networks back to the 24/7 Climatenet system. Tom can log onto the Climatenet website from anywhere in the world and see realtime temperature readings of what’s going on inside his second home. In addition, when the power does get knocked out, the built-in battery back-up in the cellular device can last for weeks on a single charge. As if that weren’t enough peace of mind, when the temperature falls below 50F, Tom receives a text message and his neighbor receives a phone call indicating that something has happened to the heat in the house.
Tom W., Second Home Owner, Chicago, IL
“I am very pleased with my purchase of the cellular temperature monitor. I looked at a number of other remote temperature monitoring systems but in my view, Temperature@lert is by far the most reliable and cost effective solution for people that require temperature monitoring of a vacation property or second residence. It’s less than half the cost of the landline I had in there (which is now disconnected!). So, I actually save money each month with Temperature@lert. The device has consistently performed since the day it was activated. Thanks for designing such a unique monitoring device - I will remain a very loyal and happy customer.”
Temperature@lert Cellular Edition