SensorPush – Best Wireless Thermometer for Your Home or Restaurant

Want to know how cool it is inside your refrigerator?  Or your freezer? Maybe you want to keep tabs on the conditions in your humidor from anywhere?  You need a wireless temperature sensor or wireless humidity sensor. Enter SensorPush.

All of the reviews I’ve seen on the SensorPush have been from the point of home or recreation use.  Well, I first discovered this wonderful little device when I needed a way to monitor our walk-in cooler in our restaurant.  We were having intermittent power issues and I desperately needed to know when it wasn’t running or even when it wasn’t running well.  A restaurant cooler that isn’t “cool” means thousands of dollars of food at risk of spoiling.

In fact, our Health inspector was so impressed with it that he once commented to us, “I wish every restaurant had this.”

Five years later, still one of the best gadgets I’ve bought.

What Is a SensorPush and What Does It Do?

If you’re in the market for a remote humidity sensor or want to set up remote temperature monitoring like I did, SensorPush is a great place to start.  It is a small Bluetooth-enabled device that monitors several metrics: temperature, relative humidity, dew point, and something called Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD). This last two are used in agriculture to measure air moisture levels in greenhouses, for example. If you need that, they monitor it.

The SensorPush uses its Bluetooth technology to transfer data directly to your smartphone every 5 minutes.  It holds upwards of 20 days worth of readings in the unit itself. When it comes in range of your phone, it uploads the data to the app.

This means the smartphone and sensor need to be relatively close to each other.  While they claim line of site range to be about 325 feet, my realistic experience is anywhere from 40-50 with walls and real-world co-existence with other electronic signals and interference.  Case in point: I had to be within 10 feet from our walk-in cooler  to read the sensor from outside.

Clearly, I needed to be more than 10 feet away!

Turns out, they have a solution for that.  It’s called their G1 Wi-Fi Gateway.

It connects to your Wi-Fi network and collects data from any surrounding sensors.  It sets up pretty easily and worked like a charm.

I eventually bought two more sensors for another cooler and a freezer. I positioned the gateway close to the walk-in and the others were picked up just fine from about 50 feet away.  I was then able to monitor all of them from my phone.

I now have three sensors set up in my home:

And here is some actual screenshots of them in the SensorPush app.  You’ll see below on April 23 a spike in the temperature for the kitchen cooler. We had a day-long power outage at that time. Generator deployed!

Setting up the SensorPush

Often, gadgets like this have a “Get Started” document or video that makes it seem far easier to set up than it really is. In the case, however, the Sensor Push really is that easy. Just follow along with the videos below with your device and be up in no time.

In short: install the app, make sure Bluetooth is active on your device, tap “Add”, pick a sensor or a hub and hold it near the phone, give it a name, and you’re done. That’s it. The sensor is now connected, named, and ready to go.

Final Thoughts

I like the detail, historical information. This little device does that very well. Being able to very easily visually track the performance of my coolers or freezers over time is invaluable.

I like the alerting it supports. Being alerted when a cooler is over-temperature is also invaluable. It can help save the life of potentially spoiled food.

It just works. This is one of those tools you just start using and it works. I haven’t had to fuss with it. I change the batteries in the units about once a year or so.

The SensorPush provides wireless temperature and humidity monitoring for a very reasonable price. If you choose, get the Wi-Fi gateway for longer range monitoring from anywhere.

The bottom line: I’ve been very happy with the SensorPush and think you will be also.