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Vaisala - Fridge/Freezer Monitoring System
How can we automate our refrigeration and freezer monitoring and alarm system to protect critical products from spoilage?
How can we guarantee alarms are immediately raised when problems with our fridges and freezers arise, not after the fact when the damage is done?
Fail-Safe Refrigerator & Freezer Temperature Monitoring with fully automated alarming via PC, e-mail or cell phone
viewLinc - Vaisala's Refrigerator/Freezer monitoring, alarming & reporting system - provides a time and cost saving solution for critical cold environments, making product losses a thing of the past.
In both regulated and non-regulated settings, low temperature storage areas must be verified and accurate records maintained.
Pharmaceutical and Biotech companies, hospitals and blood/tissue banks have to adhere to strict guidelines which are typically monitored by the regulatory bodies.
Nonetheless, corporates are always required to operate economically; they can ill afford loss of critical product through interruptions of the cold chain and need to apply financial moderation when purchasing a new monitoring system. Many of the monitoring and alarming systems available in today's market are expensive to purchase and result in considerable disruptions for IT and infrastructure.
The Challenge
A common approach to monitoring cold environments is to have personnel performing regular temperature checks, recording the information on a paper log. While simple, this system rarely provides accurate records. For refrigerators/freezers that are in areas that are not staffed 24/7, it's often impossible.
A common alternative is to install a hard-wired and dedicated central monitoring and alarming system that can be viewed from a PC, and will send notification to pager, PC or cell phone. Typical temperature monitoring systems, however, are costly and often designed for large operations. The typical centralized system will also require specialized knowledge or personnel to install and maintain, which adds to the cost of ownership.
The Solution
Vaisalas refrigerator and freezer monitoring solution based on highly accurate temperature data loggers is an easy to install, reliable and cost effective solution for monitoring temperature in critical areas.
Using a PC, LAN with PoE, W-LAN or an already existing Ethernet network, Vaisalas refrigerator and freezer monitoring solution automates the task of monitoring temperature, providing 24/7 coverage with an attractive price.
Whether you are just monitoring one or two fridges or freezers, or several hundred, Vaisalas self-powered, standalone data recorders will take up-to-the-minute samples and store multiple copies of the recorded data. viewLinc's interface displays all recorders by their Zone or Descriptions and will alert pre-designated personnel at the first sign of a problem via PC, e-mail or cell phone.
Gap-free Data Recording
A major advantage of the Vaisala Refrigerator & Freezer Temperature Monitoring & Alarming System is the reliability of the data loggers used. All relevant data are stored locally in the data logger and transferred to one or more PC's inside the network at configurable intervals. Regardless of computer crashes, network issues or even total infrastructure breakdown, the temperature data can be downloaded from the data logger's memory any time.
The system's ability to work stand-alone as well as inside a network credits the Vaisala Monitoring Solution with an unsurpassed degree of safety.
Vaisalas solution is easy to install and cost effective, as it utilizes the existing IT infrastructure. Data loggers are either connected directly to a PC or to the network via an Ethernet device.