Data Loggers
Temperature data loggers
Food Standards Australia requires businesses to prepare and sell food that is safe to eat. Food causes illness because there are high levels of food-poisoning bacteria and these poisons are called toxins. “A way of preventing or limiting bacteria from multiplying or producing toxins in food is to control the temperature of the food by either keeping it cold or very hot”. Food Standards Australia requires potentially hazardous foods to be kept at 5degC or colder and prescribes that it is “safe for food to be between 5degC and 60degC for a limited time only”. Health regulators and inspectors commonly refer to the range between 5degC and 60degC as the DANGER ZONEfor perishable foods. Food Standards Australia defines potentially hazardous foods as foods that might contain food-poisoning bacteria and which will allow food-poisoning bacteria to multiply. Examples of potentially hazardous foods are listed as raw and cooked meat, smallgoods, dairy products, seafood, processed fruit and vegetables, cooked rice and pasta, foods containing eggs, beans and nuts and foods that contain these foods for example sandwiches and rolls. Many of these food types are also the foods that are inclusions in a balanced and nutritious diet.
http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumers/keeping-food-safe/#How-can-I-make-sure-my-food-is-safe
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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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If you prefer, Telephone 1300 973 180
What is the difference between a good temperature data logger and a poor effort?
The answer to this question lies in:
- The extent to which a temperature data logger automates the process of data collection
- Whether data monitoring is continuous
- Flexibility in system set-up
Temperature data loggers supplied by Data Acquisition Networks have an A+ rating on each of these criteria. Data collection is 24/7 and not just when someone has the time, data monitoring is continuous enabling food storage history to be tracked without gaps and the DAN website enables the user to logon much as you do to your bank account and change system parameters and set up alarms.
Data Acquisition Networks is committed to ‘excellence and affordable solution’ for temperature data logging!
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.
Data loggers in aquaculture
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.
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
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 loggers – Data Control Centre
The DCC may be located at a remote site where parameters are measured and/or a simple process is controlled. DAN units can accept almost any probed input and where necessary the website can derive measures from various inputs. The DCC has both analogue and digital inputs that support most sensors and probes and 3 digital outputs for performing on/off control operations. The DCC also has the ability to recognise and alert the web site should pre-set alarm conditions be met. Communications with the web site would be via the GPRS network.
Data logger – general description
DAN has developed and taken to market, a flexible remote monitoring system that provides the ability to gather data from any site including difficult to reach or geographically remote sites and make that data available conveniently on a central and secure web site on a ‘real time’ basis. Site reporting criteria and alarm notification can be altered and current information accessed from anywhere in the world where access to the internet is available. In addition, the system may be extended to incorporate local control, with control variables also being altered over the internet via the web site.
Data loggers deliver data to your desk
New generation data loggers like those provided by Data Acquisition Networks do not require you to go to the data logger to retrieve your data.
DAN data loggers routinely send data from the field to your PC over the mobile phone or satellite networks so all you have to do is ‘log on’ and your data is available for you to review.
Data retrieval has never been easier!