Laboratory monitoring system for environmental cabinets such as ultra-low temperature freezers and incubators automatically sends detailed text messages of alerts
Managers responsible for the monitoring of environmental cabinets such as ultra-low temperature freezers and incubators in laboratories need to know when a chamber has developed a fault. Many freezers contain immensely valuable collections of specimens, the consequences of a catastrophic failure going unnoticed can potentially cost a laboratory hundreds of thousands of pounds in lost materials or ruined research.
Even something as simple as a freezer door bouncing back open needs to be detected. The IKS JS2003 laboratory monitoring system from GT Vision not only detects these (and many other faults) it can also automatically send an SMS (text) message and an e-mail to nominated facilities managers at any time of the day or night. The message is also highly detailed indicating the channel number (detection probe), description, present value, alarm limits that have been set and time and date.
This means that recipients of the message can make a judgement about the severity of the problem without having to log into the JS2003 webserver to determine these parameters.
Furthermore, the SMS facility provides the possibility to actually prove that the person did not only receive the alarm, but also read and understood it.
This is achieved by sending back a message to the server, acting as an acknowledgement.
In the software a huge number of telephone numbers and SMS programs can be set up, to get the message to the right place at the right time.
Of course everything is logged in the appropriate logbooks, including the messages that have been sent back.
In the acknowledgement the user can send a preference back to the server telling the server to either send him updates every 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes or just send a message when the alarm is reset (Again with username, time, date etc in the message), or he can reply on a preset preference so he doesn't have to bother to send back a message to the server.
This complete system offers a wide range of alarm possibilities to satisfy cover the most demanding user requirements.
The JS2003 monitoring system can be used to monitor clusters of instruments in individual labs or can be scaled to a full, multi-site facility monitoring hundreds of environments over several sites each containing hundreds of chambers in dozens of laboratories.
It is considered to be the most highly developed system of its kind.
The JS2003 has been developed in the Netherlands by Technisch Buro IKS and is distributed, installed and maintained in the UK by GT Bio, a division of GT Vision.
