[Nhcoll-l] Changes to Onset/HOBO enviro monitoring costs

[Lisa Geiger]

Hello folks,
Onset recently announced its HOBOlink web climate monitoring integration service will be re-launching, and along with a new interface, there are planned cost changes for US customers. Notably, instead of $75/year for each active MX Gateway (the device that gathers logger bluetooth signals and sends them to the web), Onset will be charging $25 per HOBO logger per year that communicates with the HOBOlink website.

Our institution uses several dozen HOBO MX1101 loggers to monitor gallery and collections storage areas, which communicate via a small number of MX Gateways. The new fee structure represents a major cost increase to us, and I imagine others here who use HOBOs and the HOBOlink site to view and export data.

Is anyone else considering shifting to a different monitoring system? A different method of uploading data with existing loggers, to avoid these yearly fees?

I communicated with our Onset reps about how disruptive this change would be for us, and I suggest others facing price increases do the same - our rep indicated he'd see if there's enough desire for different pricing options for customers like us.


Lisa Geiger

Digital Collections Specialist | She/Hers

Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

19 South 22nd Street

Philadelphia, PA  19103

https://collegeofphysicians.org<https://collegeofphysicians.org/>

https://muttermuseum.org<https://muttermuseum.org/>



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