Hardwood floor relative humidity and temperature log/monitoring

[Moldovan]

This request may be very specific but I think it would benefit Hardwood floor industry.

Looking for sensors that can be embedded into new hardwood floor installations that can log relative humidity and temperature of the wood. May be PRO sensor with internal memory can be utilized for that purpose. Data need to be read on-demand if issue arises or clients may wish to have their own Tag manager and monitor the conditions. I'm aware of only one company doing it  - Fifbox, http://www.fidbox.net/  but it is quite expensive and hard to get. It would be used much more if this can be easier to setup and less expensive.

Our company manufactures high end flooring and from time to time we and all other manufacturers and installers run into warranty claims issues of floors damage, buckling, capping, splitting due to environmental factors on installation sites.

Relative humidity in the wood affects floor movement and causes many headaches for the industry.  Radiant heated floors exasperates the issue. Moisture can travel from the bottom concrete or sweating ducts. Also from the top from spills or clients truing to "wash" their floors. During heating season when RH drops the floor may experience excessive gaps and splits. 

Upon complain it usually very hard to pin pointy how and when the environment changed and caused floor failure. Clients usually swear they never spill anything of believe their whole house Humidifiers work fine. (Most actually don't). Or try to crank up the radiant heat to be more cozy.

 

During installation the installer would use router to make a "pocket" for the tag from underside of the wood board. The tag should than log temperature and  RH in relatively slow updates. If claim is filed then floor inspector may arrive on site with portable Tag manager hooked up possibly to laptop tethered to the phone for internet connection. Download the graph and pin point exactly when the spike in RH happened.  It could be group of tags spread around different areas. Battery ideally should be lasting at least 3 years. With no communication to Tag Manager and slow logging this is probably OK. It may need a larger data point memory though.

I'll be happy to be a Guinea pig for developers and may provide another information related to this specific issue, research material. I have a spare Pro tag and may be can try to see how it works without any changes inside the floor.