This object reports the temperature, in degrees Celsius, measured remotely by a monitoring IC's external sensor, typically placed near a separate hot component such as the switch ASIC rather than the monitoring chip itself. Admins use it together with the local temperature reading to get a fuller thermal picture of the board, since the monitored component may run hotter than the IC's own local sensor. For example, a remote temperature reading of 68 while the local reading shows 42 would indicate the switch chip itself is running significantly hotter than the ambient board temperature.