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GainSpan unveils Wi-Fi cold storage Monitors
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 02 August 2008, 01:17 IST
Bangalore: An Intel spin-off and a Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions provider, GainSpan, announced the availability of industry's first Wi-Fi cold storage monitor SentinelPro, providing a battery life of five to 10 years. The product, brought out by Aginova, a manufacturer of wireless subsystems is based on GainSpan ultra-low power GS1010 Wi-Fi SoC.
The new solution offers Wi-Fi sensing hardware, a portable alarm unit, and a comprehensive software package for monitoring, reporting, and storing of critical storage condition data over time. Thus, enabling authorized personnel to view precise data over enterprise class security links, and it also provide alerts in the event that environmental conditions vary beyond a specified range. The system can page, email and visually alert any computer screen whenever food, lab samples, pharmaceuticals or other temperature sensitive items are outside prescribed parameters.
According to Vijay Parmar, CEO, GainSpan, "Wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years and the market for it has immense potential. GainSpan's solutions are designed to support broad range of embedded applications thus enabling customers to customise to their product needs. This solution is a great example of that flexibility as it has been possible to develop a product around GainSpan's offering exactly addressing the need of the food and cold storage industry for more scientific and accurate monitoring and controlling of temperature." The software, developed by Aginova, is available in two packages, first as an enterprise grade for integration into a customer's automation system and second, as a service running on Aginova secure servers.
Utilizing Wi-Fi for temperature monitoring enables to improve patient care and maintain regulatory compliance while providing automated and detailed reports on any piece of equipment for any time period for Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the Health Department. In addition, it can also provide temperature logs, operating parameters, alarms and corrective actions to be taken while eliminating human error and the cost of manual temperature documentation.
