Introduction
Food industries working procedures, data quality assurance and storage must be as safe, reliable and efficient as possible. Temperature and Humidity level of food industry should be given due consideration in order to ensure these qualities. Our products have additional benefits such as sending multiple alarms including SMS and e-mail to any location.
IAQ Consultants Pte Ltd represents Fourier Systems Products in Singapore and Malaysia for Humidity and Temperature Data Loggers. For more information on the temperature and humidity data loggers, please visit http://www.iaqsg.com/
Case study
Food transportation and storage in Australia - Wireless Solution
In 1998 Amir Antebi from SITEST became the Fourier Australian & New Zealand Distributor. A product demonstration was done for the food transportation and supermarket chain.
The application process begins at a huge chiller, as big as a football field, with 7 loading docks on each side. They receive meat after processing. Before it is sent to supermarkets across the country it is divided up into different cuts and combinations and designated a transportation run to a different city. On arrival the cuts are again divided for delivery to the local supermarkets.
The meat's temperature throughout this process has to be constantly monitored. It cannot freeze or go above a certain temperature. The customer was experiencing problems with the previous data logger they were using because it takes 10 days to receive the data after a transportation run. This is too late and the customer was suffering large costs in spoilage because there is no way to immediately detect alarm breaches and if it was the responsibility of the transport company or at the receiving shop.
The supermarket chain was particularly attracted to the Fourier product because of the wireless and alarm features. The wireless system can place a receiver, software and Internet connection at any point on the chain. With alarms via SMS, or pager the customer knows immediately, well before the doors open, if there has been any breach in temperature level. With the alert, action can be taken and responsibility can be assigned. The downloaded data clearly shows whether the threshold level was crossed during transportation, on the dock, or in the store.
During the demonstration the receiver was set up in the customer onsite office which was in direct line of sight to the docking area. Four loggers were placed on the trucks which then left the dock and travelled in the area. Transmissions were received up to a range of 150m from the docking point, which was well out of line of sight. Test was earlier conducted to see the maximum distance the signal could be received. The customer was very happy with the results of the test, since for the application's need that was more than enough - data can be captured from the truck entering the parking bay, even before parking manoeuvring.
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