CAS DataLoggers has announced that the Accsense wireless datalogging system was recently deployed at a large commercial kitchen to minimize product loss.
The kitchen staff required a wireless temperature monitoring system that provided high accuracy and featured advanced alarm capabilities to ensure that all their ingredients, including frozen foods, salads, coffee and meat were stored properly. The wireless temperature sensing solution was required to ensure effective cold chain management, especially since uneven cooling and temperature fluctuations resulted in product loss.
A total of five Accsense A1-13 Wireless Temperature Data Loggers were installed in the meat lockers and walk-in freezers along with an Accsense B1-06 Wireless Gateway. Each wireless pod was fixed to three RTD inputs to monitor the freezers. Once connected to the wireless gateway, the temperature pods started monitoring and logging the data and transmitting the data so that personnel could access the data and view it in real-time. The temperature pods measured temperatures with an accuracy of ±1.4°C in temperatures ranging between -40°C and +70°C. The wireless temperature pods eliminate the time required in manual temperature recording and also provides real-time graphs and viewing of the data.
The deployed AccsenseB1-06 gateway supports a maximum of 16 sensor pods and features 10/100BaseT Ethernet, offering a range of 250 ft outdoors and 90 ft indoors. A maximum of 32,000 sample points can be stored in each pod. The recorded data is automatically transmitted by the A1-13 wireless dataloggers to Rackspace, a secure cloud server. The backed up information can be accessed using an Accsense account.
The temperature alarm system was provided with pager, phone and email alert capabilities which alert a notification to the management if alarming temperature changes were detected.
Source: http://www.dataloggerinc.com