KryoAdmin

• Highly extensible: up to 1000 separate sensors can be monitored by one system; larger systems are possible
• Monitoring points and local audio-visual alarm points can be added at any time (up to the maximum of 1000 per system)
• Extremely flexible alarm generation and routing
• E-mail reports and graphs automatically or manually
• Data can be viewed from a web browser
• Reassurance given via optional regular ‘all-is-well’ messages
• Changes are logged automatically, providing an audit-trail of user modifications to the system
• Designed to be part of a FDA CFR 21 Part 11 compliant system

The Open protocol used to communicate with the sensors means that a very large choice of both Planer and third party signal conditioning units and sensors can be used -  enables many different parameters to be monitored.

• Parameters include temperature, liquid nitrogen level, humidity, gas concentration (CO2 and O2), air particle size and gas flow
• Consolidation of data facilitates continuous graphing of large data sets
• Wired and wireless sensors can be mixed across multiple rooms and sites
• Alarms escalate to different individuals and can be varied by time of day; alarm features can be combined
• Heart beat ‘all-is-well’ messages optionally generated

The system is built on robust IBM architecture - reliable and resilient to failure. Investment is protected by the use of an open protocol, MODBUS-TCP - gateways are available to connect to other equipment which means the latest sensors can be used as they become available.

• User hierarchy allows allocation of status codes by the an administrator to establish who receives which alarms and when
• Monitoring points can be added at any time (up to the maximum)
• Alarms come via sound, lights, e-mail, text message or auto-dialer
• Alarms can be acknowledged by web access or from a mobile phone
• Planer's Kryo-Watchdog module alarms if software, network or power fails

Systems can be cascaded to allow 1000's of measurement points with all data consolidated; extensions above 1000 points do require a special configuration. So, just about anything for which a sensor is available can be monitored. Simple single set point alarms can be combined into 'boolean' alarms, e.g "sensor 1 must be over set point A AND sensor 2 must be over setpoint B" for an alarm to be generated. Remote access comes from any computer capable of running the client software: includes Windows, Mac and Linux PC's and netbooks.

KryoAdmin systems are mainly used in demanding medical environments such as human tissue repositories, IVF laboratories, pharmaceutical labs, stem cell and cord blood facilities. KryoAdmin is equally applicable to similar demanding applications outside the medical sector. It is especially useful where different laboratories and multiple sites are involved. Typical devices to be monitored are ultra low temperature refrigerators, liquid nitrogen storage dewars, CO2 incubators and room air quality but just about any parameter can be monitored.

See: Quality and Risk Management in the IVF Laboratory; David Mortimer, Sharon Mortimer; Cambridge University Press  ISBN 9780521843492
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1172218/?site_locale=en_GB

Right Cell, Right Result with Controlled-rate Freezing (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 283KB)

CASE STUDY - 24 hour monitoring and alarms (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 270KB)

CASE STUDIES IVF Unit needing 24 hour monitoring, alarms and reporting (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 70KB)

• See our other alarm products such as Data-Later and the DATAcentre

Click here to download the datasheet (Adobe Acrobat PDF, 941KB)

Download the KryoAdmin Manual