Debut – Not Just A Simple Air Flow Logger, But The World’s Most Versatile Environmental Data Logger

A&D introduces an easy-to-mount device that is ideal for monitoring and recording low-velocity air flows of 0 to 1.00 m/s – together with temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and even vibration, all at the same time. This capability of the device dramatically expands its scope of applications and also makes it an invaluable tool in these modern days, in which managing and documenting multiple environmental parameters is becoming increasingly important in a wide variety of fields.

Firstly, the AD-1641 is ideally suited to constantly monitor the wind speed of a containment enclosure, fume hood, laminar flow cabinet, etc. The AD-1641 can alarm by buzzer as well as by display if the selected environmental value (air flow, temperature, humidity, or barometric pressure) has fallen outside the set upper and lower limits for the selected period of time (3 seconds, 10 seconds, or at once). This function is also useful for ensuring the safety of containment systems.

Secondly, the AD-1641 is a perfect device to manage the environmental conditions to install high-precision weighing instruments (especially microbalances), which are highly susceptible to external disturbances. Moreover, when connected to an A&D balance/scale, it can save mass values sent from the balance/scale while simultaneously collecting the five kinds of environmental data, all with date and time of recording. There will no longer be the hassle of manually integrating data from different devices for later analysis and documentation of weighing results.

Thirdly, the AD-1641 can be used to create and/or study environments for nurturing delicate animals (e.g. laboratory mice) or plants (e.g. vegetation in greenhouses). Lastly, it fits the general purpose of controlling and reporting ambient conditions in laboratories, workshops, industrial processes, etc.

The AD-1641 can store up to 10,000 sets of environmental and weighing data with dates and times. This is roughly 100 days of continuous recording at 15-minute intervals (the interval time can be set between 1 second to 60 minutes). No special software is required to save the logged data to a PC. The data, stored in CSV format, can be opened using common spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel, allowing for easy processing and graphing. Alternatively, the AD-1641 can transfer environmental data (with or without weighing data) to a PC in real time instead of logging it on the device itself.