It is also used in some data loggers to monitor handling operations for shipping containers.
In some Private Investigation cases, data loggers are used to keep track of a target vehicle.
The data logger usually has a capacity between 0.5 and 16 megabytes.
They found use during the 1980s in data loggers for scientific and industrial equipment.
In 2012 Onset employed 125 people and had sold over 2 million data loggers worldwide.
While most will offer real-time tracking, Others record real time data and store it to be read, similar to data loggers.
Electronic data loggers have replaced chart recorder in many applications.
The newest of data loggers can serve web pages, allowing numerous people to monitor a system remotely.
This unattended nature also dictates that data loggers must be extremely reliable.
In addition, the output may be sent to a chart recorder, data logger, or computer.