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ality, and quantity of recorded data. Monitoring locations could be set up and left alone for extended periods of time. Telemetry (radio) systems at the monitoring location enabled transmission of data directly from the data logger back to a central location, where the data could be evaluated and analyzed. Data loggers with many different features and benefits are available and programmable to meet users’ specific data acquisition application. However, the physical data logger still needs routine maintenance and has a risk of failure resulting in lost data. Like other technology, the rapid advancement in microprocessor technology can make a 2 new data logger designs obsolete in a short period of time. Data output formats from data loggers are not standardized, which often necessitates a centralized work software program for collection, decoding and processing of the data. Data presented online via the Inter typically requires another software program designed to integrate with the data collection software program. These two programs are typically owned and maintained by the owner of the data acquisition system. A data acquisition management revolution is emerging, with the movement of software programs from a personal puter or business work systems to the Inter, and integrating such software with other web services. This movement is reducing the demand on individual works hosting and maintaining software programs, and is poised to potentially revolutionize the current data logging and acquisition model. Two factors are currently converging that could make this revolution possible: 1.) the expansion of connections to the Inter from anywhere, and 2.) the distributed puting power of the Inter that is being made available to users though easytouse web services (known as “Cloud Computing”). With this, the Inter has the potential to change data logging process the same way the microprocessor revolution did in the 1980s. Introduction to Cloud Computing on the Inter “Cloud puting” is a relatively new term, but the concept has been a longheld vision of Inter application developers. Now this vision is a reality and is rapidly growing in terms of availability and acceptance. Embracing the concept o f cloud puting is a paradigm shift on how software is accessed and where relevant data is collected, stored, and processed. Broken down to its simplest form, the Inter is simply a work of puters (called servers) that are accessed to store vast amounts of data and display such data in web sites, send and receive , share photos, distribute movies, music, games, and any other online activities. Cloud puting is the concept of moving the localized puter processing,