Companies that develop plans and protocols and then fail to continuously monitor compliance fail the test of due diligence. In the event of a mishap they cannot produce any evidence they took the time or made the effort to care about what they are doing!

Data Acquisition Networks is able to use new-age data logging technology to monitor compliance and to collect independent evidence of your due diligence. In the unhappy event that you  ever need to produce that evidence, DAN clients are able to do so in what is a powerful and effective display of due diligence. Those that don’t have a day when the evidence needs to be produced just ’sleep more peacefully’ at night in the knowledge they have an independent and automatically continuous process in place that will alert them if things should ever go wrong.

Companies around the world have RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS but all too often, executives believe the job is done as soon as the plan is developed. Fortunately, CEO’s and Boards of Directors need to take a different and more enduring view.

A risk management plan without a monitoring program that ensures compliance and determines effectiveness is NOT a risk management plan at all!

Data Acquisition Networks has the capability to monitor risk management in important areas such as OH&S, Environmental and HACCP. Because of the unique way in which DAN collects data independently and then makes it available to those that need access to it, risk monitoring using DAN makes sure your risk management plan is effective.

Data Acquisition Networks data loggers offer many unique features but perhaps the two most valued by many large organisations is:

1. The visibility of data to all those that have a need to see it and

2. The fact DAN creates permanent data records

DAN systems collect data routinely and send it to a website. The data is secure. It cannot be tampered with and it is available to anyone given password access. Auditors for ISO and other systems also value the fact that DAN data cannot be altered. 

Data Acquisition Networks Pty Ltd (DAN) has developed a flexible remote monitoring system that provides the ability to gather data from remote sites and/or difficult to reach sites and make that data available conveniently on a central web site.  Information can therefore be accessed from anywhere in the world where access to the internet is available, all that is required is a user name and password.  In addition, the system may be extended to incorporate local control, with control variables being altered via the web site.

Data logger

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A data logger (also datalogger or Data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors. Increasingly, but not entirely, they are based on a digital processor (or computer). They generally are small, battery powered, portable, and equipped with a microprocessor, internal memory for data storage, and sensors. Some data loggers interface with a personal computer and utilize software to activate the data logger and view and analyze the collected data, while others have a local interface device (keypad, LCD) and can be used as a stand-alone device.

Data loggers vary between general purpose types for a range of measurement applications to very specific devices for measuring in one environment only. It is common for general purpose types to be programmable however many remain as static machines with only a limited number of changeable parameters. Electronic dataloggers have replaced chart recorders in many applications.

A special variant of the autonomous data logger is the PDF-logger. This is creating, when plugging into a USB interface, automatically a PDF file with a text and a graphic part of the current measurement data. The PC operating system recognizes the unit then as a standard USB mass storage. This makes it possible for the recipient worldwide, to generate a report without additional software. These devices are used for the worldwide delivery of drugs (Cold Chain) or other sensitive products.

One of the primary benefits of using data loggers is the ability to automatically collect data on a 24-hour basis. Upon activation, data loggers are typically deployed and left unattended to measure and record information for the duration of the monitoring period. This allows for a comprehensive, accurate picture of the environmental conditions being monitored, such as air temperature and relative humidity.

From vast prawn farms to estuarine oyster leases that grow Sydney Rock oysters in 32 NSW estuaries the aquaculture industry uses and needs technology. Prawn farms needs to continually monitor pH and dissolved oxygen whilst oyster harvesting is only permitted during periods of modest or no rainfall which is measured by tipping-bucket rain gauges and by the monitoring of estuarine salinity.

DAN data loggers take the guess-work out of aquaculture and for a very modest cost can automate data collection and send alarms when things go wrong.

DAN data loggers offer a number of benefits over more conventional data logging systems and more than often do so at a fraction of the cost. DAN data loggers are most applicable wherre:

1. There is a need to make routine or regular site visits to a remote location in order to maintain or adjust on site monitoring equipment
2. There is a need to gather information from and/or change control parameters in geographically remote locations or in locations which are difficult to access
3. There is the need to respond to alarm conditions if a site is unattended
4. There is a need to maintain records or log equipment performance due to legislated requirements
5. There is a need for production supervisors to monitor processes where the process is continuous
6. There is a need by senior management of multi-site organisations to compare performance between sites
7. There is a need to gather data from sites where access is restricted
8. There is a need to gather data from a vehicle that is constantly on the move 

The need for gathering information from remote sites has been growing steadily.  Around the world, the use of outsourced managed services, or in the context of DAN’s development ‘HOSTED MANAGED SERVICES” is clearly on the increase.  A recent survey conducted by IDC a large US based survey organisation, showed that the use of hosted managed services in the VOIP market is increasing at 282% per year and by 2008 will be worth US$7.8 Billion in the US market alone.

Unlike those that develop more capable systems by adding to existing technology, DAN has developed a new technology from the ground up while incorporating those elements of existing technology which fit the structure and provide a level of reliability.