If you are looking to monitor the temperature in your telco, IDF, BDF, MDF, or Datacenter, you’ve likely come across the IT Watchdog 100. Originally under the ITW brand, Vertiv acquired and resold Giest’s IT Watchdog in 2018. This May, Vertiv announced the immediate end of sale of the popular Datacenter monitor tool – causing Datacenter owners such as myself to frantically search for a replacement. The good news is AVtech has come to the rescue.

The original Watchdog 100 and its siblings offered a variety of sensors, relay controls, and alerting. It was a product unmatched at its time of release. In similar spirit, AVtech has a full parity feature set. POE powered, remote digital and analog sensors, relay control, and feature packed software supporting SNMP v3 – the Room Alert looks to be welcome addition to the datacenter tool kit.

The Room Alert 12SR shown below comes in packaged kits.

• 1 Room Alert 12SR Monitor
• 1 Digital Temp/Humidity Sensor (25′)
• 1 Digital Temp & Air Flow
• 1 Flood Sensor w/24′ Cable
• 1 Digital Active Power (10′)
• 2 Room Entry Sensor
• 1 MUPS Sensor
• 1 Light Tower & LTA
• 2 Flood Protect & Control Kit (Small)
• 1 iBoot-IO

You can read more about AVTech’s Room Alert here: Room Alert 12SR Monitor – AVTECH.com

Read the product discontinuance from Vertiv here: Watchdog_EoL_Announcement_ENG.pdf (watchboot.com)

While we test these in our environment, we’d love to hear your feedback.

– Marc