System and method of compensating for device mounting and thermal transfer errors

A method of compensating a temperature measurement of a thermal device in a user environment as a function of a thermal transfer of the thermal device in a temperature measurement system, the method comprising:

• inputting thermal transfer parameters associated with heat transfer characteristics of the thermal device;
• measuring an output of the thermal device during the temperature measurement;
• compensating the measured thermal device output as a function of the thermal transfer function based on one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal environments and one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal errors associated with the thermal device;
• and
• storing the input thermal transfer parameters in a thermal transfer indicia, wherein the thermal transfer indicia is associated with an indicia storage system selected from the group consisting of an EPROM, an EEPROM, a barcode, an RFID tag, a virtual storage location on a network, a memory device, a computer readable medium, a computer disk, and a storage device operable to communicate information of the thermal transfer related to the thermal device.

A method of compensating for sources of error in a measurement system associated with a device in a user environment as a function of a thermal transfer of the device, the method comprising:

• inputting thermal transfer parameters associated with characteristics of the device;
• measuring an output of the device;
• and
• compensating the measured device output as a function of the thermal transfer function based on one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal environments and one of a plurality of predetermined specific thermal errors associated with the device.