Cost effective lab Temp & RH logging system

[wedge87t]

We need to log temp\RH throughout our lab in several areas.

Before we buy one of these systems from Vaisala or Omega, is there cost-effective NI hardware to accomplish this task?
A simple one room system is no problem but we have other locations in the building and need to log all locations to one data store etc.

I found some cheap 3rd party ethernet devices that I might use with WIFI but wanted to ask the community to try and keep it NI.

[santo_13]

All NI hardware require a host system to work, unless you're ready to invest in a computer per location, it is better to go with WiFi connected sensors that you can query over network.

[wedge87t]

Are there preferred wifi \ ethernet devices to be used when using LabVIEW as the programming environment?

We don't want to buy a cDaq mainframe with comm, temp, rh modules for each location etc

[santo_13]

Not really, as long as those sensors provide some sort of API for other language or specify the protocol, it should be possible to use/reimplement them in LabVIEW.

[wedge87t]

ok at first I thought MAYBE we could use a NI cDAQ-9191 with one module but its discontinued 😛

Thanks for the feedback.