Elitech RCW-800W-THE

The hardware is good: the battery lasts a decent time, the sensors are accurate. The app communicated with the device over Wifi. It lets you view the current conditions, change settings and alarms and download data. It will also give you alarms on your phone when conditions reach an alarm threshold or the device disconnects. It is pretty easy to use They have a cloud service Elitech iCold, that provides the same functionality. The free service provides real time data viewing, remote real-time alarm, and data query and export for 7 days. The premium service, currently $20/year, provides data and query for 3 years, location information, SMS messages, multiple levels of alarm, scheduled backup and more. This is very much commercially oriented. The premium service, for instance, is compatible with FDA regulations regarding electronic records. Medication manufacturers, for instance, can use it to track shipment or storage temperatures.

En la app se añade corerctamente el dispositivo, pero a la hora de transferir los datos es imposible conectar el wifi 2.4 GHZ, da un error indeterminado. Por lo que es absoultamente inutil excepto para visualizar la temperatura instantanea. Una autentica estafa.

Der Temperaturdatenlogger wird mit Anleitung, Netzteil mit Ladekabel (USB-A auf microUSB) und kabelgebundenen Temperatursensor geliefert. Montagematerial für die Befestigung an der Wand ist ebenfalls vorhanden. An der Rückseite des Gerätes befindet sich die Wandmontageschale. Diese hat 4 starke Magneten, mit denen man das Gerät auch einfach an eine metallene Oberfläche heften kann statt die Schrauben zu benutzen. Der Temperaturfühler wird mit einem hochwertigen Stecker am Gerät eingesteckt. Die Front des Gerätes ist eine ordentlich verarbeitete Scheibe hinter der sich die Bedienelemente und das hintergrundbeleuchtete Display befindet. Das Gerät kann mittels der App "Elitech iCloud" mit dem Smartphone (oder PC) verbunden werden. In der App lassen sich verschiedene Überwachungsalarme einstellen. Diese werden dann fernüberwacht.

This is a cold-chain monitor, which is used to make sure a foodstuff or pharmaceutical stays within a specified temperature range. This is the non-pro version, they also sell a pro version for about twice as much. My review unit measured temperature and humidity. This connects via WiFi, and must get near the same WiFi SSID and password that it is set to to log the temperatures. It can save at least 7 days when not near WiFi and then upload them when it gets to WiFi. It might be able to log to your phone using Bluetooth, but I wasn't able to test that. This requires their app to set it up and their server to work. If for some reason the manufacturer no longer provides their server, this will become useless. Like many products, they want to sell you a service with continuing billing. The "basic" logging service, which this comes with, is showing me an expiration date 2 months in the future. I don't know what happens then, maybe it auto-renews. Basic logging preserves 7 days of data. The more expensive services can send SMS and email, so that you can be notified if your unit goes out of temperature limits. I'm not thrilled by the fact that this is so dependent on the manufacturer's server and app, I would much prefer a product that connected to my local WiFi and could be accessed using a standard-compliant web browser, without any use of the internet except for SMS and email. I'm pretty sure those will be around for the next decade, while with apps and servers, they could be around for 20 years or be gone tomorrow. There are other brands that do provide the local web service.

La sonde n’était pas compatible avec l’appareil ! Ça m’a coûté 20 euros de frais de port pour renvoyer l’appareil et je ne sais toujours pas si je serai remboursé 😤