The advent of Bluetooth wireless communication and networking means that it is possible to interrogate a datalogger remotely which can be extremely useful for unattended or remote applications.

With the advent of sophisticated microprocessor-driven dataloggers Data stored by stand-alone data loggers is typically downloaded into a computer for more detailed analysis and reporting, though some data loggers have sophisticated on-board processing and analysis capability and can carry out some control functions such as activating an alarm or a switch.