Franek Technologies installed systems protected mission critical instrumentation from what would have otherwise been catastrophic power fluctuations and failure
In the midst of an unprecedented 2004 hurricane season, US government, state police, and regional forensic DNA laboratories and facilities from Florida to Louisiana were protected throughout the hurricane onslaught by power protection systems from Franek Technologies.
Franek Technologies installed systems protected mission critical instrumentation from what would have otherwise been catastrophic power fluctuations and failure.
As a result of their foresight, these crime laboratories were able to safeguard the integrity and reliability of their DNA results.
Crime laboratories across Florida, the Gulf Coast, and the nation are diligently working to solve suspect-less crimes, such as rape cases.
In fact, many states are experiencing a significant backlog of unsolved cases and have secured federal funding to investigate this caseload.
Due to the backlog and the precious nature of DNA samples, it is imperative that laboratories remain viable 24/7 without the possibility of corrupted results and instrumentation damage caused by uninterrupted power delivery.
Complicating matters for forensics laboratories is the fact that these laboratories are extremely vulnerable to any power shortage, even as short as 30-miliseconds, due to the complexity and sensitivity of their instrumentation and automated equipment.
To protect samples and ensure reliable results, many crime laboratories have turned to Franek Technologies for its expertise on developing customized, certified instrumentation-specific power protection solutions.
Franek Technologies' LPS units currently protect over $3 billion in instrumentation globally, including installed forensic systems at the following Florida Department of Law Enforcement Crime Laboratories: Ft Myers, Jacksonville, Orlando, Pensacola, Tallahassee, and Tampa.
There are also installed units protecting the Indian River Crime Laboratory in Ft Pierce, Florida, which is a contract regional forensic laboratory associated with the Indian River Community College working with a number of police departments within the state.
Across the Gulf Coast, Franek Technologies has installed customized solutions at the Acadiana Criminalistic Laboratory; the Feliciana Forensic Facility; the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory; the New Orleans Police Crime Laboratory; the North Louisiana Crime Laboratory; and the State of Louisiana's Public Safety Services.
Finally, Franek Technologies has also worked with the FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs' Forensics Chemistry Center in Cincinnati, Ohio; the DoD's Theater Battle Management DNA Laboratory at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida; the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police DNA Forensics Units; and FBI forensics laboratories nationwide.
"This level of laboratory power protection is especially critical in forensics testing and DNA analysis, where sample availability is limited, making it nearly impossible to rerun tests.
"Loss of samples due to suspect instrument performance and corrupted data is an intolerable condition," explains Ray Hecker, vice president for Franek Technologies.
"Our laboratory protection systems provided the forensic laboratories with a 'power protection bridge' during these storm-induced outages allowing generator-supported laboratories to perform without even being aware of any abnormal conditions.
"Additionally, these instrumentation-grade LPS units corrected the harmful and damaging power fluctuations and harmonics that emergency generators produce."
