| Data logging is used every day by nearly every | | | | out via regular phone or internet connections to |
| person in the western hemisphere. Our | | | | the company headquarters for evaluation. |
| supermarket checkouts and medical clinics all use | | | | While some may raise their eyebrows at such |
| data loggers to track and manage basic | | | | instant collection and transfer of data, it's |
| information in a way that assists in making our | | | | important to consider the business of selling large |
| day to day life better. | | | | quantities of food, at least half of which is |
| One of the most well known uses for data | | | | perishable within 2 weeks and most of which is |
| logging is the airplane black box device. This is a | | | | useless in 3 months. In order to keep track of |
| stand alone logger that is capable of collecting | | | | what needs to be ordered and delivered to each |
| data on everything from wind speed to pilot | | | | area of the country and each store, data logging |
| actions and is the first thing that crash analysts | | | | is crucial. If a supermarket company does not |
| look for when they're investigating an accident. | | | | have a handle on what is being sold combined with |
| Most data loggers gather information and then | | | | what stock is on hand and becoming stale or out |
| store it in an organized fashion for later retrieval. | | | | of date then that company does not stay in |
| When the data is retrieved there usually a specific | | | | business long. |
| computer program that analysis the information | | | | Data loggers are also used a great deal in the |
| for patterns, trends, or anomalies. In the case of | | | | medical profession. Everything from temperature |
| the airplane black boxes (which are usually colored | | | | readings to blood pressure is monitored and the |
| bright orange so that they can be spotted easily | | | | results collected on countless patients every day. |
| in the wreckage) there are computer based | | | | This huge amount of information is used to save |
| programs that access and sort out the airplane | | | | lifes, heal patients, and prevent sickness. It's |
| data from the box itself so that investigators can | | | | amazing and a bit reassuring to know that data |
| do their job. When it comes to something like a | | | | loggers are working tirelessly to keep all the |
| supermarket check out data logger, the | | | | information at hand that we need to keep our |
| information is actually gathered and sent | | | | society thriving. |
| immediately to the store's computers and then | | | | |