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Existing monitoring solutions partially mitigate this risk but are frequently encumbered by wired infrastructure, external signal-transmitter assemblies, or a large form factor that hinder integration with diverse workflows. This study presents IncuSense, a miniaturized, battery-powered, wireless environmental monitoring platform capable of sensing temperature, humidity, and CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    in real-time. The system integrates a photoacoustic NDIR sensor with a microcontroller, enabling periodic data acquisition and transmission to local or cloud-hosted dashboards for real-time visualization and automated alerts. Comprehensive thermal characterization identified a critical limitation of continuous MCU operation: Wi\u2011Fi standby power consumption induced progressive self-heating, yielding an internal temperature rise of approximately 18\u00a0\u00b0C and systematic bias in temperature and humidity readouts. To address this challenge, an intermittent power-cycling strategy was implemented to gate power to all ESP32 subsystems except the real-time clock, reducing the average current draw by more than 90-fold to 0.92\u00a0mA, suppressing thermal drift, and extending operational lifetime. Benchmarking against a NIST-traceable sensor demonstrated high accuracy and precision in environmental measurements, and incubator failure recording. 100-day deployment in a CO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    incubator further confirmed long-term stability, with minimal drift and demonstrated its ability to detect transient fluctuations caused by routine incubator access. Collectively, these results establish IncuSense as a compact, cost-effective, and adaptable platform for continuous long-term deployment with periodic data acquisition, facilitating environmental standardization in biomedical and biomanufacturing workflows, and may support the standardization of NAMs.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s10439-026-04284-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,16]],"date-time":"2026-07-16T17:32:40Z","timestamp":1784223160000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["IncuSense: IoT-Enabled Wireless Long-Term Multiparametric Cell Culture Incubator Monitoring System"],"prefix":"10.1007","author":[{"given":"Ankit","family":"Kumar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rushangi","family":"Patel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Davis","family":"Johnson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2235-5139","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abhishek","family":"Jain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"4284_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fphar.2019.01484","volume":"10","author":"C Hirsch","year":"2019","unstructured":"Hirsch, C., and S. 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