Seeking a Temperature Monitoring / Alerting System

Hello,

I live in a winter environment and it's been much, much colder than is usual for here this year, and the trend is continuing. I'm away from the building where the snakes are sometimes for more than a day, and I constantly worry about loss of power. I do have battery backup units for each enclosure however they last just over two hours at best... Not good enough!

I worry that one day I'll come home, the power has been off, and the snakes are either in bad shape or even dead!

So what I'm looking for is a way to both monitor as well as be sent alerts of low temperatures over the internet. If it had to come down to one of those, just being alerted is enough.

I have everything related to my networking/internet on battery backup. Internet service here stays up for quite a while after the power goes out. So I'd probably still have connectivity for a while. I'd merely set the alert temperature just a few degrees down from normal so that the alert would go out quickly.

So do any of you know of a device that is all of the following:

Monitors temperature
Is or can be battery powered
Is standalone (does not require a computer to be running on its network)
Connects to the internet (either wireless or ethernet cable)
Can send alerts for both low and high temperatures preferably in a variety of ways (email, text message via some web service etc)

The key part is alerts – Otherwise I'll be camping out on whatever web interface it might have constantly watching the temps while I'm away.

Or, perhaps there are other approaches to this? This is important to me, so I have no problem with spending some decent money on it. I am not however looking to jerry rig some custom solution.

Well, if you keep them in a separate building, a thermostat that alarmed when the temperatures drop or rose to a set temp would not do you very much good as you would not be around to hear it. I don't know of any device save for like...home security systems that are capable of sending alerts to an outside entity when certain preset conditions change.

Have you considered ADT or something like that where you can control temperature, and other devices with your smart phone? You would be able to monitor the temps directly at any time, but that would be ambient only. That would also provide security for your animals...;) lol. I'm not sure that's what you're needing here though. Perhaps someone else knows of something better?

That would certainly be a useful tool.

I know there has to be a system that does this. I used to work for an aquarium company and there are systems that hook up to your aquarium and can control all the water parameters and will automatically dose, feed etc. It also has alarm functions that will send you an email, sms or what not if the temperature or other parameters get out of range.

Edit: Just found this, I am sure you could adapt it to function, I bet there is something better, but a quick google search came up with it. http://www.qasupplies.com/voicdial51...l#.UuPhiGQ1gy4

Here is another option, http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/al...-wet-probe.php

Digital Aquatics has the Herpkeeper. It has the capability to send alerts to you remotely. My concern would be that if the power goes out, there's no juice to the monitoring system, either.

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