Onset Team Completes Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training
Building a culture of continuous improvement focuses on the improvement responsibility of all employees, and uses the talent of the entire workforce. To support continuous improvement, Onset has proactively trained employees in Lean Six Sigma.
Using Biomimicry to Reduce a Dangerous Pest
A group of graduate students, participating in the Biomimicry Challenge, used HOBO data loggers to help test a device aimed at reducing one of nature's most dangerous pests. This pest is the cause of hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations, and thousands of deaths each year.
Saving Smalltooth Sawfish
One of the more intriguing fish in the ray family is the sawfish. Its long, narrow, flattened nose extension (rostrum) is lined with sharp teeth that look like a saw. HOBO data loggers are being used to study the smalltooth species found almost exclusively in south Florida.
Is Your Energy Conversation Driving Energy Conservation?
The drive to save money through energy efficiency may seem like old news to you, probably because energy efficiency as we know it began over 30 years ago in the 1970s.
Onset Honored
We don’t want to brag, but we have been honored by some great local and state organizations, not once, but twice!
Protecting Groundwater
We all need water. It is vital for all life on, in, and above the Earth. Why should you care? Well, YOU are mostly water, up to 60% in fact. So, we need to drink a certain amount of water to survive, and just where do we get most of our drinking water? From groundwater.
Jump on the Green Roof Bandwagon! (Part 2)
American cities are jumping on the green roof bandwagon, passing into law ways to increase sustainability, become ‘greener’ and combat climate change by enforcing that buildings have green roofs. Is your city on the list?
Love Your Lakes
July is Lakes Appreciation Month. Besides being great summer recreational locations, lakes are also important ecosystems for the organisms, insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals that live in, or around them.
One Roof, Two Roof, Black Roof, Green Roof (Part 1)
This blog post is all about green roofs: what they are, how they work, and how they drive sustainability in urban areas. Bonus points for you if you know which children's book inspired the title of this post...
HOBO Celebrates American Wetlands Month
The United States is home to coastal and inland wetlands, both salt and freshwater, and they can be found in all 50 states. But first, ask yourself a relevant, albeit strange, question: Do you like your kidneys?
Measuring the Effects of a Hydropower Plant on Macroinvertebrates
Onset ran a HOBO photo contest on Facebook, calling for customer photos. A winner was chosen and awarded a HOBO data logger. This post highlights his cool application and BEAUTIFUL photo. Follow us on social media - we'll be running the contest again this year!
April is National Volunteer Month
Onset does good. Do you? By good, we mean volunteering as part of its company culture. If you do volunteer, you're one of 63 million Americans who take part in this "do-good" activity every year.
Earth Day Helps to Protect Endangered Species
Do you have a grudge against sea turtles? No, of course you don’t! They are peaceful and beautiful ocean-dwelling reptiles that play a special part in our ocean ecosystem, but they are on the most-endangered list. So what are people doing about it?
Improve Your IAQ and Monitor CO2
Most people think of outdoor air pollution when they think of CO2. So you’re probably picturing smoke stacks or car exhausts filling the air with noxious black smoke. But increased CO2 inside is also a big deal.
