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Environmental monitoring is an important aspect of network administration, but it�s always been kind of pricey to do remotely. Most environmental monitoring platforms cost several hundred to several thousand dollars, support only a few expensive, proprietary sensors, and aren�t readily automated through web interactions. As a result, we network administrators tend to monitor one or two environmental variables � temperature, and perhaps humidity � per data center or rack, even though we�d like to measure many more things. The HA7Net from Embedded Data Systems is a palm-sized Ethernet-equipped Web-enabled environmental monitoring platform that costs only $150.