Wireless warehouse
humidity monitoring
Sense-i humidity nodes record relative humidity and temperature zone by zone across a warehouse, with alarms when a zone drifts and a time-stamped record you can export for an audit or a claim.
THE PROBLEM
Humidity damage shows up weeks after the conditions that caused it
Cartons soften, labels lift, paper reels cockle, metal parts rust, tablets and powders cake, electronics pick up moisture before reflow. In every case the damage is found later, and nobody can say which week or which aisle the conditions went wrong.
Warehouses are not uniform. A dock door that stays open on a monsoon afternoon, a roof section that sweats overnight, an aisle next to a wash area: each creates its own microclimate. A single hygrometer near the office tells you little about the top racking level at the far wall.
Pharma and food distributors face a second question from auditors and customers: show me the conditions during storage. A continuous, time-stamped record by zone is the answer they expect.
HOW WE SET IT UP
Zones, not a single reading
Map the zones first
We agree the zones with you: dock areas, high and low racking, the walls that get sun, the areas near doors and wash bays. If you already have a mapping study, we place nodes at the hot, cold and humid spots it found.
Battery nodes on the racking
Battery-powered Sense-i nodes screw to racking uprights or walls, so high levels are covered without running power up the racks. Setup is done from a phone over BLE.
Alarms with sensible delays
A dock door opening for a truck should not page anyone. Thresholds and delays are set per zone, so a sustained drift triggers an alert and a short event does not.
Records for audits and claims
RIOD Live keeps the full history per zone, with audit trails and export to PDF and Excel. When a customer questions a shipment, you can show the conditions for that aisle and those dates.
AT A GLANCE
Warehouse humidity monitoring
- Measured
- Relative humidity and temperature, time-stamped, per zone
- Hardware
- Sense-i wireless sensor nodes, battery or adapter powered
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz or 4G LTE direct, LoRa or Zigbee with a gateway for large floors
- Where data goes
- RIOD Live or your own server, MQTT over TLS 1.2
- Reports
- Per-zone history, audit trails, PDF and Excel export
- Engineering note
- Continuous monitoring follows a mapping study; we place nodes at the points mapping identifies
FAQ
Questions buyers ask us
How many humidity sensors does a warehouse need?
At least one per distinct microclimate zone, with extra nodes at high racking levels and near doors. The count depends on floor area, racking height and features such as dock doors, sun-facing walls and wash areas. We agree the zones with you during the site survey and place at least one node per zone, with extra nodes at high levels and near doors.
Is continuous humidity monitoring the same as temperature mapping?
No, the two work together. A mapping study is a one-off qualification exercise that finds the worst-case spots in a store, and continuous monitoring then watches those spots every day. If you have a mapping report, we use it to place the Sense-i nodes.
Can we export humidity records for a GDP audit?
Yes. RIOD Live keeps the time-stamped history with audit trails and exports it to PDF and Excel by zone and date range.
Do wireless humidity sensors need power cables on the racking?
Battery-powered Sense-i nodes run without any cable, which is why they suit high racking. Where a socket is close, an adapter-powered node can report more often.
Want a humidity record for every zone?
Tell us the floor area, racking height and the goods you store. We will propose zones, node count and a pilot layout.