Traditional chart recorders for use in vehicles simply do not provide appropriate visibility of critical temperature data. Most often the information is retrieved only when a problem has occurred and the retrieval is almost always long after anything can be done to fix the problem.Temperature monitoring units developed by DAN can be fitted to any vehicle. they routinely collect information relating to the temperature in various compartments of the vehicle as well as information relating to when doors are opened.DAN temperature monitoring units for vehicles enable fleet managers to supervise from their stationary, remote location by having continual access to the latest information about what is happening on the truck. Contact DAN today on +612 8838 2358 to find out more about how DAN can help you ensure temperature compliance when your goods are on the move.

Temperature remains a critical parameter across a number of activities and industries. Whether you are storing food, storing laboratory samples or simply heating something to a safe temperature where bacteria is eliminated knowing that an appropriate temperature has been reached or is being maintained is of critical importance. Lives can and do depend upon it!Data Acquisition Networks specialises in temperature monitoring. With an extensive range of product DAN collects data and automatically stores that data, sending alarm messages when things go wrong.Temperature monitoring has never been so easy. For more information contact DAN on +61 2 88382358

   

NEW AGE OF FOOD SAFETY HAS ARRIVED!

The DAN FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM automates the collection of your HACCP records! The system has two functions, Firstly, it can be easily connected to any existing (or new) cold storage facility by your own maintenance crew or electrical contractor and secondly, the system facilitates manual data entry for critical control points. All data is routinely transmitted to a data vault where it is evidence of your due diligence. Alarms are sent to personnel when corrective action is required. Automation of your HACCP records HELPS YOU ENSURE YOUR FOOD IS SAFE TO EAT and HELPS AVOID LOSSES attributable to temperature abuse

Doors being left open and storage temperatures set too low will cause refrigeration equipment to work harder, consume more energy and WASTE YOUR MONEY! Once connected, the DAN system enables you to save money.

SAVE$$$

FOOD SAFETY

Food Standards Australia[1] 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 5^oC or colder and prescribes that it is “safe for food to be between 5^oC and 60^oC for a limited time only“. Health regulators and inspectors commonly refer to the range between 5^oC and 60^oC as the DANGER ZONE.

Food safety is becoming increasingly topical in all Australian states and the DAN AUTOMATED FOOD SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM enables you to take control of your HACCP record-keeping. Based upon the data collected you will be able to make informed judgments on the extent of temperature abuse should it ever occur because you will accurately know the time period over which the temperature abuse occurred.

In addition the DAN AUTOMATED FOOD SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM saves you even more money by removing the current labour time allocated to manual data collection and record-keeping.

SAVE$$$

DON’T ALLOW THE REPUTATION OF YOUR COMPANY TO BE AT RISK DUE TO INADEQUATE HACCP RECORD-KEEPING!

DATA - Automated HACCP Records

DAN data is automatically collected and retained as a permanent and independent HACCP record. Repeated tests demonstrate data collected by DAN systems is far more accurate and reliable than can ever be achieved by manual means.

Dan Server Data Freezer Coolroom Battery Voltage Date  Time  GMT Aver Max Min Aver Max Min Aver Max Min 16/10/2008 11:30 +1000 -18.8 -17.9 -19.3 2.1 5.2 0.6 27.9 28.0 27.7 16/10/2008 11:00 +1000 -16.1 -12.2 -18.1 1.9 3.1 0.9 27.9 28.0 27.6 16/10/2008 10:30 +1000 -15.8 -13.9 -19.1 1.9 2.9 0.9 27.9 28.0 27.7 16/10/2008 10:00 +1000 -19.8 -19.1 -20.1 2.5 5.0 0.9 27.9 28.0 27.7 16/10/2008 9:30 +1000 -19.1 -18.2 -19.7 2.7 4.1 0.9 27.9 28.0 27.7

 

ALARMS

Alarm messages by SMS and email alert you to food safety issues and enable you to take early corrective action. The DAN system also automatically provides a ‘log’ report of all alarms in the format shown below and enables you to review and improve response time to alarm conditions within your organisation.

Dan Server Alarm Input No Alarm Date  Time  GMT ID Description 15/10/2008 11:26 +1000 1 B Fridge Temp Returned to <5oC 15/10/2008 11:17 +1000 1 B Fridge Door Closed 15/10/2008 11:02 +1000 1 B Fridge Temp >5oC for more than 5 minutes 15/10/2008 10:49 +1000 1 B Fridge Door Open for > 15 minutes

MANUAL DATA ENTRY

The DE20 facilitates manual data entry of information that has historically been recorded on paper.

Log Entry Log Type Product Quality Start Temp Finish Temp Suppliers Logger Name Date  Date  Time  deg C  deg C  18/06/10 18/06/2010 11:26 Receivable Frozen Meals Accepted Hard Frozen N/R Carrier A Mary 18/06/10 18/06/2010 11:24 Receivable Frozen Meals Accepted Hard Frozen N/R Carrier B Joe 17/06/10 17/06/2010 17:27 Lunch Milk Accepted 4.2 7.0 N/R Peter 17/06/10 17/06/2010 17:26 Lunch Vegetable Accepted Hard Frozen 78.9 N/R Peter 17/06/10 17/06/2010 17:26 Lunch Casserole Accepted 4.4 79.9 N/R Roger 17/06/10 17/06/2010 17:25 Lunch Milk Based Desert Accepted 4.5 7.4 N/R Gavin

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Phone: 02 8838 2358

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[1] Food Safety: Temperature control of potentially hazardous foods. Guidance on the temperature control requirements of Standard 3.2.2 Food Safety Practices and General Requirements.

Food authorities around the civilised world require companies to produce food that is safe to eat. There are many aspects of food handling, testing and storage that contribute to safety and monitoring and recording temperature at various points is amongst the most important.

Data Acquisition Networks has developed a temperature monitoring system for food products that enables routine collection of temperature data as well as routine input of deep-meat and cooking temperatures. DAN’s temperature monitoring system for food products collects data and sends it to a website where it is available in the same way as we all access our bank account details every day. Therefore it is available to us but not to anyone else that we do not wish to have access to the data.

Contact DAN today (+612 88382358) to find out more about how our food monitoring systems can help you. You may also find the following document of interest. Food Safety

Monitoring of temperature is important in a variety of applications.

In the food industry there is a need to  monitor deep-meat temperatures and storage temperatures. In schools there is a need to monitor the temperature of the classrooms in which children learn.

Traditionally people have taken random temperature recordings during a day. Not always at the same time of the day and sometimes, people forget and then catch-up the next day. The outcome has been misleading information on which decisions cannot be made.

Data Acquisition Networks provides a range of data monitoring solutions that ensure routine data collection becomes a part of every day. No mistakes and no misleading information. Talk to DAN today (+612 8838 2358) about how our solutions can resolve your data monitoring issues. 

Data Acquisition Networks has recently released the DE20 a powerful data logger and data control centre that has extended primary functionality.

The DE20 can not only routinely collect and record the temperature of food storage areas and sanitising temperatures but can also facilitate data capture though manual entry. Information such as chlorine levels for food sanitising or deep meat temperatures can be determined and then manually input to the DE20 from where the data is routinely transmitted to the website and retrieved as required and permanently stored.

The DE20 recognises alarm conditions and can arrange for alarms to be immediately sent to those you designate.

Data Acquisition Networks is committed to continuous improvement in the simplicity and certainty of data collection and the DE20 is a ‘watershed’ model in the context of that ambition.

Contact DAN today on +62 2 8838 2358 for more information about the DE20 data logger. 

Chilled, frozen or even ‘controlled ambient’ storage is always done with a single purpose and that is to preserve what is being stored. That is to make it last longer and stay purer! When storage temperatures stray there is a detrimental and lasting impact on the item, quite often to the point where it becomes unusable and needs to be discarded!

Conventional temperature monitoring systems just do not get the job done. They often rely upon manual record-taking or at best rely upon someone being aware a gauge is showing a wrong or inappropriate reading. We have all seen situations where alarms become so frequent people just continue working around them rather than taking corrective action.

Data Acquisition Networks has solved the problem of temperature monitoring!

The DAN system polls the temperature inputs 19 times each second. With uninterrupted and continuous power supply the DAN temperature monitoring system sends data records to a website each half-hour showing a maximum, minimum and an average for the period. DAN system recognise an alarm condition immediately and send alarms immediately by SMS and email and if required, provide audible alarms. All alarm messages are logged so you always know when it was sent and who got it!

Data retrieval is achieved in much the same way as you log onto your bank account by use of a user name and password. There is a facility on the console page for operators to record what action was taken when problems occurred.

DAN remote temperature monitoring systems provide permanent, time-stamped records and are the next best thing, even better in fact, than you standing there yourself 24/7 taking care of your valuable asset.

DAN remote temperature monitoring systems are also amazingly inexpensive!

Contact DAN on +612 8838 2358 to find out more and for an obligation-free quotation.

There are principally three ways in which companies ‘log’ or record storage temperatures for food. Two of the ways simply do not work!

The first is by asking or instructing a member of staff to routinely go to each storage area several times a day and write down the temperature of the storage area as shown on a dial above the door. There are many reasons why this does not work and is an absolutely unreliable process everywhere it is in use. Staff tend to do this when they have time which means that they record the temperature when things are not busy and these are also the times when people are not going in and out of the storage area and it is the ingress of warm are on these occasions that is one of the primary reasons for storage temperature corruption. Also some staff simply write down the temperature they believe their boss would like to see ot what history tells them will cause less disruption. General staff are not food safety experts and they do not know the impact of storage temperature on food product.

The second flawed method is to install a non-interactive data logger. A chart recorder or some other similar device which collects the information but sadly, as pressure builds for more productive output no one ever looks at it until there is a problem!

Data Acquisition Networks provides a range of interactive temperature data loggers for food storage take temperature readings all day every day whether the business is business or not and which send alarms when temperature goes astray. DAN temperature data loggers produce a log of alarms sent and through a website provide visibility to supervisory staff even if they are hundreds of kilometers away.

DAN provides temperature loggers for food storage that work! 

Equipment recently installed in a large food storage area to monitor food storage temperatures revealed some astonishing results. The catering company knew there was a problem with storage temperatures because many of the food products stored were not surviving until their expiry date and because when the caterer bench-marked themselves against similar companies their energy bills were 12% to 17% higher varying only by the time of the year. The caterer was determined to show the suppliers of their refrigeration equipment that all was not as it should be and to force remedial action. The refrigeration company had undertaken tests on the equipment and found it to be in good functioning order.

Data Acquisition Networks installed temperature monitoring equipment in both the cold room and freezer. In addition, a simulated product temperature probe was installed in each by using a probe encased in a solution that provided the same thermal barrier protection as food packaging. DAN also installed magnetic switches so the door ‘openings’ could be monitored and correlated to temperature.

Within days the picture was clear. Workers in the catering organisation were propping the door open whilst they went in and out to retrieve food for preparation. The caterer received an alarm whenever the door was opened for a protracted period and not surprisingly the losses of temperature correlated with these occasions. Particularly shift staff, who had not been adequately trained and who worked largely unsupervised were the cause of the problem.

The refrigeration equipment did not need to be repaired. There was simply a need to help staff to understand that warm air penetrating the freezer and cold room had a dramatic effect on the storage temperature and also made the refrigeration plant work harder and consume more energy.

The food storage temperature problem was quickly resolved and the savings in electricity paid for the DAN equipment within months!

If you or your company is responsible for storing temperature sensitive material it is necessary to measure and record temperature data.

Data Acquisition Networks has a range of monitoring equipment that can collect data from remote sites and transmit that data to a website where it is available for access in much the same way as we all access our bank account details every day. Secure & Easy!

DAN temperature monitoring equipment is surprisingly inexpensive to install and can save you loss of materials and/or loss of reputation.