Almost irrespective of what business you are in, a data logger can protect your investment and in many instances, can also provide you with a competitive advantage.

Here are just two examples. Firstly, some companies that sell refrigeration equipment are now starting to offer 3rd part data logging solutions to monitor the performance of their equipment. Data loggers send alarms when things go wrong and are evidence that a supplier stands behind their product and is prepared to validate its performance. Secondly, companies that distribute food products to vulnerable groups such as the ‘aged’ are increasingly using data loggers to ensure their food temperatures are maintained at a safe level.

 Talk to Data Acquisition Networks today about how a data logger can protect your business assets and provide you with competitive advantage. 

Temperature is critical to many processes and many industries.

Whether its the food industry where temperature kills bacteria or the environmental industry where discharge from power plants back into the waterways is important to protect marine life or whether its laboratory samples that represent a lifetimes work and need to be kept deeply frozen, DAN data loggers can maintain a ‘monitoring watch’ over your critical function and send you alarms in time for you to take corrective action should a problem ever occur.

DAN data loggers have revolutionised thinking in how data loggers should function. Simplicity in design combined with faultless and consistent performance make them the obvious data logging choice.

Many laboratories hold sample in cold rooms. These samples may represent a lifetime’s work and yet often there is little if any monitoring to ensure temperature is adequately maintained.

Data Acquisition Networks is able to monitor cold-room temperature and send urgent alarms when things go wrong that will enable corrective action to be taken.

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

In almost every industry where cold rooms are used the maintenance of desired temperature is critical. Whether product stored is for scientific purposes or food for human (or animal) consumption the fact it is stored in a temperature controlled room means there will be a loss of lifespan or product quality or in the worst case, loss of the total value of product stored, if temperature conditions fail.

Traditional monitoring systems do not do an adequate job of monitoring cold room temperature nor do they adequately indicate the simulated product temperature which is so critical in determining the effect of heat abuse.

DAN data loggers routinely monitor temperature and send records to a secure data vault accessible via any internet-enabled computer by those that have been given an appropriate password. Most people find that you only need to save one problem because of early warning and you have paid many times over for the equipment and its installation.

Visit the DAN website at www.danmonitoring.com to find out more about data loggers supplied by Data Acquisition Networks.

Data loggers when installed as part of a HACCP system in a QSR can save money!

HOW - it’s simple. DAN data loggers have an added facility that enables equipment to be turned on of a morning even before staff arrive allowing the preheat period to occur unattended. In addition, DAN data loggers remove the need for staff to maintain temperature records during the day thereby freeing their time for customer service and other functions relating to quality.

If you are interested in improving the food safety standards in your quick-serve-restaurant talk to Data Acquisition Networks. Not only will you save money but the functionality of DAN monitoring equipment will quickly deliver improved efficiency of operation.

Whenever food is prepared temperature plays an important role. Industrial kitchens have HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point) plans that almost always have a list of critical control points where temperature is the critical measure.

Deep meat temperatures, holding temperatures for food that is ready-to-serve (both hot & cold) ovens and the like are all points in a food preparation area that are critical to food safety.

Data logging equipment supplied by Data Acquisition Networks provide solutions for routine temperature monitoring. Data loggers from DAN are easy to install and ready to use. They measure temperature at routine intervals and transmit the data to a secure website where it can be viewed by those authorised. Because of the ‘power’ of the website DAN can also ‘derive’ data from two or more measured inputs.

Data for Government or private enterprise is all to often left to individuals to collect. Sometimes individuals with vested interest may either alter data or be suspected of altering data or in our busy lives they may just simply forget to collect the data at all.

Data loggers that routinely and continuously collect data and transmit the data to a website provide a bank of information that cannot be changed or be suspected of being changed. Data Acquisition Networks (DAN) have two parts to their data loggers. Field hardware + a website where data is stored. Data loggers from DAN provide solutions to the collection of critically important data and if things ever go wrong, the fact you have invested in a method that guarantees data collection, can be evidence of due diligence.

The NSW Government this week passed legislation permitting the NSW Food Authority to ‘NAME & SHAME’ food businesses that “cut corners with food safety”. Minister Macdonald made it clear that food business which do “not put food safety first could suffer the consequences”. Follow the link below to the NSWFA website where more information can be found on the ‘Name & Shame’ legislation.

http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/

HACCP systems are used universally to deliver food safety and record keeping is an essential part of HACCP. Data loggers routinely and continuously collect data ensuring this critical role is not left to junior staff. Data loggers continue to collect critical control point data even when your restaurant is busy unlike your staff who can become distracted by the need to provide customer service to a growing line of people waiting to order food.

The NSW Parliament has passed (April 8th 2008) tough new laws that will give NSW consumers unprecedented access to information about breaches of food safety law. The Governments legislation will allow the NSW Food Authority to publish on its website details of food businesses that receive penalty notices for food law breaches (NAME & SHAME). A link through to the Minister’s press release is below. 

http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/mr-apr-08-name-and-shame-law-passed.asp

Data Acquisition Networks supplies data logging equipment that enables food businesses to stay ahead of the legal requirements by monitoring their HACCP program in a routine and continuous way that will protect their investment (”THE BRAND”).