djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) (08/24/90)
Our genetics lab has seven freezers generally full of various bits of salmon flesh awaiting electrophoresis, and its imperative that someone is warned when a freezer goes down for some reason. Currently, they are contracting with a home security firm who installed alarms that call the security folks when a compressor dies. These folks are then supposed to contact one of the lab supervisors, but they don't seem to follow through, and the Lab Chief is ready to cancel the contract. They do have a few XT-type machines that see little use, and asked me if I could find out a way to set up an XT to monitor the freezers and dial one of several home phone numbers in case a problem arose. I suppose they'd like to hear "Good morning, Doctor, sorry to rouse you at 3 AM, but there's been a slight malfunction in freezer 6!", but any sort of reliable notification would do the trick. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has interfaced a PC with the type of sensing/alarm equipment that could do this for us. There must be other folks out there monitoring freezers and the like, right? :) "Moby" Dick O'Connor djo7613@u.washington.edu Washington Department of Fisheries *I brake for salmonids* "Moby" Dick O'Connor djo7613@u.washington.edu Washington Department of Fisheries *I brake for salmonids*