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The In-Touch Temperature Satellite
System.
In-Touch Solutions Model D-Sat5
Each Temperature Satellite can support up to 100 sensors. The
supplied PC can support up to 10 Temperature Satellites. The Server System can
support up to 10 reporting PCs and up to 100 clients receiving web page data.
The Temperature Satellite System can consist of many Temperature
Satellites connected to a single PC. Mutiple PCs can be connected to the Server
System to concentrate data from all locations and provide access to all
temperature histories at your facility to any browser enabled work station on
your network.
In-Touch Temperature Satellite ( TS )
Systems
In-Touch TS is a simple and cost effective system that
continuously monitors the temperature in all refrigerators, coolers, freezers,
and environmental control systems.
In-Touch TS provides you with the ultimate in thermal
accountabiliy providing you with automated display of temperatures in all
monitored zones, alarm outputs on zones outside of agreed upon safe temperature
limits, and our unigue iButton key acknowledgement sytem that will record who
and when authorized personell acknowledged alarms. In-Touch can even provide
you with space in the record keeping system to record your response to alarm
conditions as required by HACCP.
In-Touch TS will alert you to problems before they become
disasters.
In-Touch TS connects to a P.C. allowing stored data to be
downloaded, analyzed and printed out. This PC can be connected to the In-Touch
Server system to allow access to the data across your Intranet or even the
Internet.
In-Touch TS monitoring and data logging will do so much
more than just alert you to pending emergencies. Data logging allows;
documentation, trouble shooting, trend analysis and system fine tuning.
SAFETY Using an In-Touch TS monitoring and
notification system gives you accurate and continuos monitoring of all your
thermally sensative areas.
DOCUMENTATION By downloading and archiving
sensor temperature histories you have a permanent record of the temperature
status of individual areas. This not only helps you manage the system but
provides you with documentation of operational efficiency.
HACCP (Hazard Analysis of Critical Contact
Points) A Federal program, HACCP (hazard analysis of critical
control points) is being incorporated into many of the nation's food safety
programs. HACCP principles specifically require monitoring and recording of
temperatures at many critical control points throughout the food distribution
system. Meat packing and processing plants as well as grocery stores are being
required to implement HACCP programs. These facilities are required to monitor
and record critical contact point temperatures within their facility.
The
In-Touch Remote Temperature Satellite (TS ) family of products are designed to
automatically monitor, alarm, and record temperatures from multiple locations
within a facility. There are many benefits to using this system including: loss
prevention, automated record keeping, increased level of accountability,
increased maintenance awareness, and employee time savings.
In-Touch Remote Temperature Satellite ( TS ) system
overview Over the past few years we have all become increasingly
aware of the importance of quality control. From health care to food safety,
temperature is the most important and most watched variable. Many Federal and
State laws as well as business operating codes require close attention to, and
detailed documentation of, temperature histories. Because the effort required
to have people monitor the temperature at even a few locations is so labor
intensive this process must be automated.
The Remote In-Touch Temperature Satellite (TS ) family of products
were designed to automatically monitor, log and alarm temperature readings from
multiple locations. In-Touch has developed hardware and software solutions to
make this process easy and fault tolerant. The hardware and software are built
on five layers. There is a great deal of intelligence built into each layer of
the system. Following is a brief description of each layer.
Digital Sensors In-Touch uses new technology
digital sensors that greatly reduce installation cost and complexity. Up to 100
sensors can be wired to an In-Touch Satellite on a single cable
(multidrop). Multiple In-Touch Satellites can be wired to the PC to provide
monitoring for literally hundreds of sensors simultaneously. Each sensor is
manufactured with its own unique identification serial code. This assures you
that your sensors will be properly identified and never confused with any other
sensor on your system now or in the future. You can even accumulate the data
from many different facilities and rest assured that the sensor id system will
not contain duplicates. Each sensor is a self addressed node on the Microlan
network. In addition, the temperature conversion is done on the sensor itself
(rather than sending an analog value to the main board for processing )
eliminating line conditioners, cold junction compensators and other complex
hardware required by other systems to send an accurate temperature reading to a
P.C. Traditional electronic temperature sensing systems use thermocouples,
thermistors, and RTD sensors that require 2 or 3 conductors extended to each
sensor! This drastically drives up hardware and installation cost and
complexity. A global command is sent to all sensors to convert (read their own
temperature) simultaneously thus giving you a true time synchronized snapshot
of thermal conditions of temperatures from all sensors.
The *Microlan Network The backbone of the TS
system is the Microlan network. By using Microlan the In-Touch TS system allows
you to monitor up to 100 unique sensors on a single cable. You can multidrop
sensors off this cable and hardwire each sensor to its permanent location or
you may want to wire plug in jacks that allow you to unplug the sensors to move
equipment around for repair and or replacement.
The Temperature Satellite (DSat5) The DSat5
Temperature Satellite collects the temperature readings from the temperature
sensors and acts as a bridge to the PC and beyond. All of the setup information
is stored on the Sat5 as well as keeping temperature and alarm logs. The Sat5
will continue to operate whether or not the PC is on. Each Sat5 can store up to
1000 temperature readings for each temperature sensor connected to it .Up to 10
Sat5 Satellites can be connected to the PC. The Sat5 has a small LCD screen to
allow you to look at the current temperature readings of any sensor connected
to it as well as a touch key port to allow you to acknowledge any pending
alarms on the system. The personal touch key can be used to identify which
authorized personnel has acknowledged any given alarm.
The PC and Program By connecting multiple
In-Touch Satellites to the P.C. you can easily program, view,and download
temperature data from hundreds of temperature sensors located throughout your
facility. While P.C.'s are extremely powerful data collection tools they have a
downside in that their reliability is inversely proportional to the importance
of the function they perform. Translation ( Just when you need the P.C. the
most it crashes ). In-Touch has designed the TS system to operate independently
of the P.C. Once the initial parameters are programmed they are stored in
nonvolatile memory on the TS system. Subsequently if you have a problem with
the P.C. the TS system continues to function. Information stored on the system
( setup, set points, sensor names, display order, logging intervals, alarm
delays, temperature logs, alarm logs, etc.) can be used to update the database
on the P.C.
The Server System Many system administrators
would like the temperature data and reporting capabilities to be available to
other users while maintaining sole control of the system. The In-Touch server
system addresses this need. By connecting one or more PCs that have Sat5(s) on
them to the Server System you can concentrate the data and make it accessable
to your Intranet or even the Internet. In-Touch has developed a system that
dynamically generates web pages that are automatically updated from the Sat5
Satellites. This way the data can be accessed from any browser enabled station
that has access to the network. By using the Server System you also get another
level of automatic data backup as temperature logs will reside on each Sat5,
the PC and the server. The Server System also adds the ability to add
(authorized) comments to your alarm events, remote data access and report
generation without having to use proprietary software on every machine.
In conclusion the In-Touch TS system offers you these benefits:
1- Stand alone operation
2- Built in configuration and data
logging backup
3- Automated temperature monitoring, alarming and data
logging at as many locations as you need.
4- The ability to view current
temperatures and temperature histories from any browser enabled PC.
*Note Microlan is a registered trademark of Dallas
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Contact Information
In-Touch Solutions
212 North Sturgis Street
Mankato, MN 56001
Telephone 507-388-9153
Fax 507-388-3730
You can e-mail us at
in-touch@in-touchsolutions.com
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