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Wireless Sensor Networks have the potential to drastically improve and simplify environment monitoring processes at lower costs. Easy to configure alerts and alarms allow instantaneous communication of out of range conditions via on-screen, email or SMS messaging.
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Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring
Regulations like HACCP, LMHV, FDA or ISO define temperature controlling requirements for all steps of handling and processing of sensitive food. Temperature monitoring in cold chain management is one of the most important factors for the quality assurance of environmentally sensitive foods. From a purely economic point of view the return on investment of cold chains depends mainly on the reduction of food waste.
For this reason cold chain temperature monitoring needs to be deployed to improve the performance of cold chains and achieve traceability and fulfillment of regulatory or insurance requirements. Furthermore cold chain temperature monitoring enables the identification of additional cost savings possibilities related to improved efficiency of the temperature management process. Real-time temperature data readings are displayed on computers for a fast response.
Further interesting applications for using wireless are the monitoring of supermarket freezers, refrigerator temperature in canteen kitchens, pharmaceutical cold chains and the monitoring of food and pharmaceutical processes.
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Data Center Environment Monitoring
The power consumption and heat produced in data centers is growing steadily as servers are getting smaller and more powerful. Modern servers can have up to ten times the heat output than what has been designed for many data centers. To prevent downtime in data centers, the environment is usually overcooled, consuming more costly electricity than needed. For evaluation of the energy efficiency in data centers PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) and DCIE (Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency) are used.
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Data center environmental monitoring includes temperature, humidity and air-flow monitoring for optimizing energy-efficient data centers and to avoid "hot spots". To ensure bottom-up security there is a physical separation from the WLAN-infrastructure. Here you can find all our wireless sensors for common data center energy management applications.
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Pharmaceutical Warehouse Monitoring
To maintain and ensure product quality also warehouses are subject to regulations on monitoring of temperature and humidity conditions allowed.
A wireless network can be set up within a few minutes without disturbing the often high-traffic warehouses. The system will deliver essential quality characteristics and reduce losses by early identification of deviations from set targets.
The system consists of a gateway which is connected to a PC and a number of flexible battery-powered sensors. The sensors can be moved easily in the warehouse where needed. Whether there is just one small warehouse or many large warehouses, our monitoring software is designed to give you an instant access to all data. Multiple wireless networks and sensors operating in different areas of a warehouse can conveniently be managed from a single server in your network.
Relevant regulations are FDA, FSIS, HACCP, FSEP
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Greenhouse Monitoring
Greenhouses have meanwhile developed to modern production facilities containing the need of monitoring different product critical environmental parameters.
Monitoring environmental conditions in greenhouses is important for farmers to maintain their plantation at optimum temperature and soil-humidity. This simple monitoring allows them to grow their crop efficiently and increase productivity.
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The environment in a greenhouse must be maintained at a specific temperature level, humidity and CO2 concentration, therefore the growth process needs a constant twenty-four-seven monitoring. Several measurement points are required to comprehensively cover the area where plants are growing. For measuring various parameters different wireless sensors can be used. E-Senza`s approach is to use a flexible mesh network with GPRS gateway which enables even the monitoring of remote greenhouses. With this greenhouse monitoring system even a set of green houses can be interconnected to a remote server with our monitoring application SenzaWMS.
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Last Updated on Monday, 18 July 2011 06:50 |
