Data Logging
Temperature data loggers
Temperature is critical to storage of a variety of items ranging from food to blood and a failure of storage temperature (temperature abuse) can result in problems ranging from simple spoilage (i.e. the product is no longer at its best) through to severe risk of safety to human health.
Temperature data loggers from Data Acquisition Networks can be fitted and operated for a fraction of the cost of the loss that will result from temperature abuse. DAN temperature data loggers also automate permanent record collection thereby enabling analysis of the likely severity of a temperature abuse incident.
Talk to Data Acquisition Networks (DAN) today about how automated data collection will ensure the safety of your product held in a temperature controlled environment.
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Free data logging trial
Under certain circumstances DAN is prepared to provide a FREE MONITORING TRIAL for a period of 3 months. So confident are we about the superiority, reliability and general performance of our product we will provide equipment for you to install and after 3 months you can buy it at the price you agree at the outset or you can tell us to come and take it away. BE WARNED however that most people who embark on a free trial very rapidly find they cannot do without the data delivered to their desk!
Data Acquisition Networks takes all the hassle out of getting you the data you need to manage your business.
Data Service Agreement
DAN recognises that when some people buy a DAN data logger what they are really buying is the data they need, available to them when they want it. They choose DAN data logging equipment because it never lets them down but it’s the data they actually want NOT the equipment!
As an alternative to offering ‘capital purchase’ of DAN equipment, Data Acquisition Networks is now offering ‘Provision of Service Agreements’. All this simply means is that you pay a monthly fee for a 36-month period for your required data to be collected and made available for you on the website. For you there are no set-up costs, no capital requisitions, just the data you want, delivered to your desk within days of you making the inquiry.
DAN is always seeking ways to make life easier for customers. If you have interest in a ‘Provision of Service Agreement’ please ask your DAN representative for more information.
Evidence of Due Diligence
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.
Data Logger
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.
Remote Data Logging
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:
- 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
- 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
- There is the need to respond to alarm conditions if a site is unattended
- There is a need to maintain records or log equipment performance due to legislated requirements
- There is a need for production supervisors to monitor processes where the process is continuous
- There is a need by senior management of multi-site organisations to compare performance between sites
- There is a need to gather data from sites where access is restricted
- There is a need to gather data from a vehicle that is constantly on the move
Data logging using a Hosted Managed Service
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.
Website collection of data logger data
The DAN Website communicates directly with the Data Control Centre located in the field. The DAN website hosts all necessary software enabling end users to set up and maintain their measurement or control application, specify alarm conditions, SMS and email addresses for alarm notification and to view measured data. Communication between the DCC and the website occurs via commercial networks including CDMA, Satellite or landline whichever is most appropriate for the particular situation. Within this innovative monitoring system, DAN has incorporated significant novel concepts and technological advancements over existing competitive products. The incorporation of these items has required significant research and testing prior to their release.
Data logging team providing solutions
When you buy a product you need to know there is a strong support team behind it with problem-solving and ‘support’ capabilities.Data Acquisition Networks has very strong technical leadership that is able to custom design solutions for almost any industry. Heading up this team is Bruce Davis and Gareth Jones. Bruce has a strong industrial marketing background. He has worked in senior management roles requiring “hands on” expertise in construction, project management, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, technical development and sales marketing. Bruce is a Degree qualified electrical engineer BSc Eng (EE), and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). Recent senior management appointments have seen Bruce involved in implementing change in technically sophisticated and financially difficult environments.
The DAN team can design your solution and provide the back-up support necessary to give you the confidence you need that your data logger will always deliver the data you need when you need it.
Data acquisition is centuries old!
Data acquisition over the centuries has taken many forms. Today you can still see people collecting data for personal and commercial use with pencil and paper in hand as you will see people travelling routinely to a remote location to retrieve collected data that needs to be processed in some form in order for it to be suitable for its intended use.
Today, data acquisition is very much a part of life. Companies and Governments collect data on almost everything and from almost every source whether the point of collection is remote or stationary or on the move. As information technology has progressed rapidly during the 20th century so has people’s expectation of timeliness. Just think how agitated we can now all become just waiting for a PC to ‘boot up’!