The system he built will sound an audio alarm and send an email if something goes wrong with the sump pump. He’s monitoring for two different issues. One technique uses a float valve to sense if ...

One is a backup and sounds an alarm ... the sump pump fails. This way he can head home, or call someone to check in on the problem if he’s away. We saw a pretty complicated monitoring system ...

But there are ways to avoid that. If you buy a new AC sump pump run by a controller, it will come with some type of alarm to let you know if the pump fails or the power goes out. The same holds true ...