Archive for 2008
Data loggers monitor critical conditions
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.
Carbon Footprint Data Monitoring
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.
Data loggers for the 21st century!
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.
Cold room data monitoring
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
Data loggers used for ORP 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.
NEW from DAN data loggers
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.
- One receiver can take data from over 100 transmitters
- Each transmitter can take 6 inputs
- Data can be transmitted up to 500 metres and over 2 kilometers when antenna are fitted
- Using an RS232 connection, data can be downloaded directly into a PC
- 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
Never run the risk of your data being lost!
Older generation data loggers use a variety of methods to facilitate data retrieval to the point where it can be analysed and actioned. Some require you to go to the data collection point and plug in a PC. Others require you to ‘dock’ a collection unit with a PC whilst some require you to dial out to the unit to enable data retrieval. All these methods not only have some level of inconvenience but they also risk data loss.
Data loggers provided by Data Acquisition Networks do not work in these ways. DAN data loggers collect data at site. Each unit has back-up battery power so if there should ever be a power loss on site DAN data loggers will store up to 200 data blocks. So if your DAN data logger is set to report every hour then the DAN field hardware will store up to 200 hours of data if there should ever be a transmission failure.
DAN data loggers ring in through an in-built GPRS or satellite modem to a server where the data is downloaded into a secure data vault for storage and your convenient retrieval.
DAN data loggers never run the risk of your important data being lost. If you use a data collection system other than DAN and data does become lost it is highly probable that the data lost is the very data you will most importantly need.
Data loggers ensure security of data
Data loggers come in as many different shapes and forms as the data they collect! Irrespective of what data is being collected however, one thing remains the same. The data belongs to you and even if it appears innocuous and of no real value to anyone else, your data should always be adequately protected.
Data loggers from Data Acquisition Networks operate very much like on-line banking. DAN data loggers send data to a data vault that you can log on to in very much the same way as you log on to retrieve your bank account details. You can look at the data but no one else can unless you give them access.
In this way DAN data loggers provide absolute security of your data whilst at the same time delivering your data from the ‘field’ to the PC on your desk or if you’re travelling, to any Internet enabled PC anywhere in the world.
Don’t run the risk of your data becoming the property of anyone you would prefer for whatever reason, not to have it. Talk to DAN today about secure data loggers that reliably and routinely deliver data to your PC.
Data loggers are not reliant upon GPRS network
DAN data loggers transmit data via the mobile phone network. In some parts of Australia the network performance is poor or unreliable however that never prevents DAN data loggers from transmitting data to the website where you can access it via your password in exactly the same way you access you bank details over the internet.
DAN utilises a number of options in locations where the GPRS network is not strong.
- DAN can use wirless transmitters to send data from a poor reception area to a wireless receiver provided there is a nearby location where the receiver can be located and from that poit, can relay data to the website. With DAN equipment the wireless communication points can be up to 2 kilometers away from one another
- DAN has developed data loggers that efficiently and effectively utilise satellite communications. Whilst a little more expensive for each byte of data transferred, the efficiency of the DAN data logging system still means it’s very cost effective
- Sometimes, in the very remotest of areas DAN simply arranges for the field unit to communicate via an RS232 connection to a local PC from where the data is transmitted to the website via the local PC’s normal Internet connection.
Data Acquisition Networks always finds a way to get the data to where it is required.
Instant Graphs provided by data loggers!
Everyone knows that data loggers can’t provide graphs instantly. Well, data loggers provided by Data Acquisition Networks certainly can!
DAN data loggers collect data and send it to a data vault. That data vault can be accessed by password just as you access your bank details online.
When the website present your data DAN offers two options other than the table in which the data is initially presented.
OPTION 1: By simply clicking on the ‘DAN GRAPHICS’ icon on the same page as the table, the customer is able to see a line graph, pie chart or column graph and can then easily click ‘in’ or click ‘out’ inputs to remove clutter from the graphic.
OPTION 2: The DAN website also offers a ‘CONSOLE’ view which at the click of your mouse button can show you all your inputs and alarm points in colourful format so your eyes can scan them all easily. DAN ‘Consol Setup’ also allows you to change colours to suit your individual taste.
DAN data loggers are changing data presentation in meaningful ways that allow you more time to use the data to improve business performance and spend less time collecting and analysing the data.