Data loggers provided by Data Acquisition Networks have a history of adding value to everyone involved!

DAN has been supplying data loggers for salinity monitoring since 2002 and there are several good examples of how the payback for their use is rapid.

The closure of an estuary for aquaculture harvesting is determined by the salinity reading. By correlating meat quality with salinity, one estuary in NSW has been able to increase its ‘available harvest days’ by 43%! This not only improves food safety outcomes but is also means produce from farmers in that estuary is more reliably available.

During July 2008 Data Acquisition Networks has announced the release of NEW WIRELESS TRANSMITTERS & RECEIVERS for ‘local’ data transmission.

 Wirreless transmitters and receivers save substantial time and money. They are flexibly locatable on a site and require NO ‘HARD’ WIRING!

One DAN receiver can accommodate multiple DAN transmitters and can transmit data over a distance of 2 kilometers. Each transmitter can take up to 6 inputs and the receiver can transfer data to you SCADA system or can be connected to a DAN DM01 data logger from where data can be transferred to your desk wherever that may be located.

DAN data loggers are used in a variety of applications where they monitor critical inputs that determine company performance, safety and legislative compliance.

Data loggers can measure the outfall from effluent treatment plants, measure salinity in an estuary or even determine the temperature of water on discharge back into a lake from a Power Station.

 Because all DAN data loggers transmit data to your desk over the GPRS or satellite networks, the information you need to manage your business is always at your finger tips.

Data Acquisition Networks is able to assist with automating the monitoring of carbon footprint in a variety of applications.

There is significant interest in carbon footprint monitoring in the transport industry and DAN is able to fix a unit to a vehicle that captures the necessary data. Because DAN systems transmit data to a website DAN is able to take the ‘collected’ data as input and use the power of the website to calculate carbon footprint outcomes.

You may be surprised to know there are some organisations that still collect data with a ‘pen and paper’ and yet it actually saves money and vastly improves performance to use a 21st century style data logger to provide you with accurate and timely information.

The problem with manual methods of data collection is that employees forget to ‘do the rounds’ or are simply too busy at the time the data recording job needs to be done. Some employees have also been known to fill out the data sheet in advance for the next 3-days so they don’t have to be bothered filling it in when it is required.

All this might be humorous except it has legal implications! If ever something goes wrong it is important you can demonstrate your company took steps to do what needed to be done and placing a young employee ‘on the stand’ who may claim to have been poorly trained or worse, not trained and who under oath will say he or she filled out the form improperly, is not good evidence of your due diligence.

Contact Data Acquisition Networks today to achieve a better understanding of how, for a very little cost, your company can avoid an embarrassing and potentially disastrous problem.

DAN data loggers are increasingly being used to monitor the performance of cold room storage.

Because DAN data loggers have multiple inputs plus ‘counter’ inputs they have versatility and application that you simply do not find with lesser products. DAN data loggers ‘poll’ the inputs 19x each second. They transmit data to your desk routinely where every interested and responsible person in an organisation can have access through their issued password. DAN data loggers also send alarms.

The ‘counter’ input on a cold room can be used to detect door-openings and closings. The duration of the opening can therefore be known and correlated with temperature changes.  Because DAN data loggers provide a maximum, a minimum and an average for each period it is possible to achieve a very good understanding of energy wastage which is of growing importance. DAN data loggers can also help you to significantly reduce costs.

Contact Data Acquisition Networks today to understand more about the benefits of cold-room monitoring

Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP) is a measure of the effectiveness of free chlorine. In food processing plants studies indicate that when ORP is maintained at levels >665 the survival rates for pathogens decreases sharply. At >665 E.coli survival is <10s, salmonella <20s, listeria monocytogenes <20s and thermotolerant coliform <20s.

Therefore, monitoring ORP and pH in combination can be a powerful and effective tool to improve food safety. If you would like to know more about ORP monitoring and its advantages over tradition methods contact Data Acquisition Networks today. DAN provides a range of data loggers that can be used cost effectively to assist your company to manufacture food product to the very highest standards of safety.

DAN has recently introduced upgraded new wireless transmitters and wireless receivers for ‘local area’ data logging.

The new products from DAN have some outstanding features.

1. One receiver can take data from over 100 transmitters
2. Each transmitter can take 6 inputs
3. Data can be transmitted up to 500 metres and over 2 kilometers when antenna are fitted
4. Using an RS232 connection, data can be downloaded directly into a PC
5. A receiver can be connected to a DAN DM01 unit for transmission of data over the mobile phone or satellite networks

DAN data loggers are continuously being improved to ensure DAN always is able to offer its customers the most cost effective and practical data logging solution