Cimscan – Monitoring Temperature To Ensure National Health And Safety

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<h1>Cimscan – Monitoring Temperature To Ensure National Health And Safety</h1><strong> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_Seo5 Consulting.aspx'>Seo5 Consulting</a></strong><br /><p>Blood products spoil if they aren't transported and stored in a temperature controlled environment. If this occurs without anyone's knowledge, lives are at stake. Also, the potency--and indeed the safety--of pharmaceutical products significantly deteriorate at elevated temperatures. Patient safety is directly affected by how well a hospital keeps tabs on the temperature in these critical storage locations. Similarly, pharmaceutical manufacturers are under strict scrutiny by the FDA and must produce their products in contamination-free environments under temperature and humidity controlled conditions. In addition, pharmaceuticals have to get from the manufacturer to the hospital or dispensing pharmacy with minimal degradation in potency. Distribution centers with large temperature and humidity controlled warehouses are in use throughout the country to facilitate this process. As stated in the previous paragraph, it is essential that the temperature in these facilities be continuously monitored. As the recent outbreak of salmonella in eggs demonstrates, improper transportation and storage of food products can result in severe illness or even death, especially if the food isn't properly prepared at the source or at consumption. Temperature monitoring is again an essential part of keeping this vital part of our economy safe. The numbers of stops that food must make from the producer to the consumer is mindboggling. Not only are there thousands of food distributors and over 220,000 grocery stores in the US, but there are also over 800,000 restaurants and institutional food services. Approximately 160,000 of these are fast food restaurants that serve over 50 million customers annually. In all these places, storage temperature, fryer temperature, oven temperature, dwell time, and other parameters must be monitored to ensure consumer safety. CIMTechniques, Inc., located in Beaufort, SC, has been manufacturing temperature monitoring systems to help ensure safety in all these areas for more than a decade. Their flagship product called "CIMScan" is currently in use at hundreds of locations throughout the world. Recently CIMTechniques introduced a totally new version if its CIMScan product. It is completely web-based and built around a standard relational database. All that is required to access or maintain the system is a simple web browser. The database allows instant and flexible recall of historical data, as well as an unrestricted capability to generate custom reports. Alerts are automatically issued by the system via email, text messaging, pager and even voice telephone whenever an abnormal condition is detected. The CIMScan architecture is like a wheel. The web-based server with its database acts as the hub. Out on the rim are a variety of remote devices that gather and forward measurement data [temperatures, humidity, flow, pressure, particle counts, etc.] to the server via the spokes. The spokes are actually a variety of standard networks from a simple LAN in a hospital, laboratory, or university to the Internet linking remote devices to the server from far-flung parts of the world. Networking can even be provided by low earth orbit [LEO] satellites that continually circle the globe. The remote devices are inexpensive and easy-to-use units called monitoring stations or eLinks. Monitoring stations generally interface with simple wired and wireless temperature and humidity sensors. eLinks, on the other hand, gather data from intelligent instruments such as particle counters, watt-hour meters, and flow instruments to name a few. Both units can buffer measurement data during LAN outages and automatically forward it to the server when communications is restored. Monitoring stations have the ability to check for alarm conditions and alert local personnel if an abnormal condition is detected. All CIMScan remote devices accumulate hourly statistics [max, min, average ] as well as a user-defined calculation for every monitoring point and forward it to the server along with the normal measurement data. About CIM Techniques: During their 15 years of operation, CIMTechniques has provided the industry-leading CIMScan solution to companies from a variety of industries throughout the world. CIMTechniques is IS0-9001/2000 certified and many of its customers rank as the largest companies in the world. For more information about CIMTechniques and CIMScan, please go to cimtechniques.</p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />CIMTechniques has been providing exceptionally reliable CIMScan monitoring systems in a variety of regulated industries for over 15 years. We are considered experts in the field of <a rel="nofollow" href=http://www.cimtechniques.com/>wireless temperature monitoring</a> services. For more information on this company, visit <a rel="nofollow" href=http://www.cimtechniques.com/>www.cimtechniques.com</a>.<p> Article Source: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Cimscan-–-Monitoring-Temperature-To-Ensure-National-Health-And-Safety_39004.aspx'> http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Cimscan – Monitoring Temperature To Ensure National Health And Safety_39004.aspx</a></p>

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