Openviro is an open-source environmental sensor platform designed for servers, datacenters, and homelabs.
Openviro Axe PoE
How hot is your server room?
On the surface, it seems like an easy problem to solve, as thermometers aren’t exactly a new invention. But temperature monitoring is a more complicated problem than it seems, and the hardware on the market today is both too expensive for most businesses to afford, and too inaccurate to provide actionable data.
Meet Openviro, an Open Source Environmental Sensor designed to deliver accurate temperature and humidity monitoring via standard protocols, and at a price people can actually afford.
FAQs
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The Axe PoE is our first sensor platform. It is a rackmountable controller, and supports up to two temperature/humidity environmental sensors. The Axe controller supports power from either Active Class 1 PoE devices (24-54v), a 5.5mm barrel jack (12-54v DC) or via USB-C 5v.
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We custom designed our own sensor probes around the venerable Bosch BME280 environmental sensor. The probes are proprietary, but connect via standard RJ11 6P6C cables. They are capable of recording temperature, accurate to ± 0.5 °C, with a fidelity of 0.01°. Relative humidity is also recorded. Openviro Axe PoE includes a single probe in the package, with support for up to two probes, allowing you to monitor both intake and exhaust temperatures in a server rack.
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Openviro supports SNMP v1/v2 and v3, and utilizes the openly available Entity Sensor MIB. The Openviro Axe PoE supports 10/100 Ethernet connections, supporting both static and dynamic IP addresses. We recommend solutions such as Observium, CheckMK or PRTG for monitoring and alerting.
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Yes. We developed the firmware for Openviro to be open-source, allowing the community to verify any code running on their networks, or to submit bug fixes and new features.
