Monitoring
To monitor or monitoring generally means to be aware of the state of a system. Below are some examples:
- to observe a situation for any changes which may occur over time, using a monitor or a measuring device of some kind:
- Baby monitor, medical monitor, Heart rate monitor
- Biomonitoring
- Cure monitoring for composite materials manufacturing
- Deformation monitoring
- Election monitoring
- Mining monitoring
- Natural hazard monitoring
- Network monitoring
- Structural monitoring
- System monitoring
- Website monitoring
- Futures monitoring, Media monitoring
- to observe the behaviour or communications of individuals or groups (see: surveillance)
- Clinical monitoring, for use of new medical drugs