Hot and cold running data

Secure monitoring of environmental conditions doesn’t end when the goods leave the production line. Tracking the levels of temperature during transit is essential to assure quality of delivered goods.

Hanwell Instruments Limited supply a range of monitoring solutions which are accurate, reliable and affordable. Hanwell was set up in 1991 to capitalise on university'led research into data acquisition technigues. Since then the company has developed a range of solutions from standalone dataloggers for non-urgent monitoring, through wireless factory and warehouse monitoring and, now, to GPRS logging of goods in transit.

Monitoring a distribution warehouse can involve running kilometres of cabling around the site, adding to the cost and making relocation of sensors difficult. Hanwell’s Radiolog range offers wireless monitoring and alarming. Temperature, humidity or other types of, data is transmitted from the 'RL' series sensors to datalogging receivers. Options include the cr1, which connects serially into an operating PC and can drive alarm panels or autodiallers via relay outputs, and the sr1, which connects into LAN sockets and is interrogated by software on a server. With both options, data is securely filed to a network folder and can then be viewed by any user with the client software. So viewing current conditions of a warehouse in Perth from London is simply a matter of logging in to Radiolog. Alarms can be set on each sensor to trigger on Rate of Change and level parameters and this information relayed via alarm output displays, email notification or SMS messaging.

Once goods are in transit, the need to monitor their temperature conditions does not go away. The 'HL' series of standalone dataloggers are designed to log data accurately and reliably at user-defined time periods. For example, the HL2016 can be set up to log temperature every minute and put in with temperature-sensitive goods. Once the goods have been delivered, the data can be downloaded and the journey history checked for temperature irregularities.

For urgent and time-critical packages, the rtm40 range offers GPRS monitoring of temperature conditions. A transmitter unit serving several sensors sends information back to a receiving base via GPRS data communications, giving the end user live information on the conditions and (optionally) the location of the packages.

All the Hanwell solutions above come with networkable software which can be run in FDA CFR21 Part 11 Compliant mode. Analysis tools within the software produce summaries, statistics - including the MKT (Mean Kinetic Temperature) - and reports, or data can be exported in CSV format to be used in 3rd party spreadsheet software.

Whatever your environmental monitoring needs, Hanwell offer flexible solutions, which give you data at your fingertips.

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Hanwell Instruments Limited - Derek Richardson
The Pixmore Centre
Pixmore Avenue
Letchworth
Hertfordshire
SG6 1JG
United Kingdom

Tel: 0844 815 6229