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News Release from: TempSys | Subject: CheckPoint
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 March 2005
Wireless monitoring saves engineers'
time
The workload for the engineering department at hospitals, hotels, casinos, processors and any other large facilities are ever increasing, and are given no additional resources.
The workload for the engineering department at hospitals, hotels, casinos, processors and any other large facilities are ever increasing, and are given no additional resources At the historical St Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California, the engineering department is responsible for physically checking and recording the temperature of over 60 food refrigerators spread throughout the hotel
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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To reduce this workload, CheckPoint, a wireless temperature monitoring system by TempSys, has been installed.
Wireless temperature sensors are placed inside every refrigeration or freezer walk-in, reach-in and display cases, and the temperature is automatically transmitted to a computer every 15 minutes.
If any equipment anywhere in the hotel should go out of its acceptable temperature range due to evaporator coil icing, refrigerant leak, or simply a door left ajar, an alert is automatically emailed and text messaged to a cellphone.
By eliminating the physical check of every equipment, at least 2 hours of an engineer's time are saved each day, allowing the engineer to work on more productive tasks.
Moreover, timely corrective action can be taken, whereas a refrigeration problem may not have been detected for many hours or days with the previous manual method.
The computerised record keeping more than satisfies the regulatory requirements, as well as the hotel's internal audits.
Hospitals are also finding a wireless temperature system to be essential for the pharmacy, dietary and laboratory departments.
Monitoring the temperature of up over 200 refrigerators holding patient drugs and vaccines, as well as meals for immunodefficient patients, is a monumental task for the engineering department, and almost a full time job for one engineer.
With a computerised and wireless temperature system, the engineering department as well as the staff of the pharmacy, dietary and laboratory can all share the same system to check in real time, the temperature of any refrigerator located anywhere in the hospital.
A 24/7 e-mail and cellphone text message alert can immediately notify the engineering department for timely corrective action.
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