A climate profile is a reusable set of climate rules. You define it once and apply it to any number of sensors across your sites, rooms, and collections. Instead of configuring thresholds sensor by sensor, you create a profile and assign it wherever it is needed.
This keeps your monitoring consistent, which is especially useful if you have many sensors or follow standard conservation guidelines across your institution.
Default profiles
Custodian includes built-in default profiles that cover connection and proximity alerts. The most common is Connection & Battery, which monitors connectivity (on/off) and battery level (20 to 100%) for all your sensors. Default profiles are always present and cannot be deleted. No configuration is needed.
Connection alert settings are managed from a centralised view. From here you can see at a glance whether an alert will be sent when a unit goes offline, and how many people will be notified by email. This saves you from having to check each sensor individually.
Active profiles
Active profiles are the ones you create. Each profile has its own set of thresholds for the metrics you want to monitor: temperature, humidity, lux, or UV. You can assign each profile to specific sensors.
You can create as many active profiles as you need. For example, you might have one profile for a general gallery space and a stricter one for a storage room containing sensitive objects.
Each active profile shows:
- The thresholds it monitors, displayed as a range (for example, 15 to 25 °C for temperature)
- The units currently assigned to it, with their current readings and notification status
- Tabs for Units, Recipients, and Manage profile, where you view and edit settings
If a sensor reading falls outside the thresholds set in its assigned profile, this is reflected in the monitoring indicators across the Dashboard and Sites tab.