Sensatronics Temperature Monitors from OPENXTRA aid UK Retailers

Any organisation involved in the preparation or storage of fresh fruit, vegetables, meat or fish has a legal obligation to demonstrate ‘due diligence’. Managers need to ensure that there are food safety systems implemented within the organisation in order to maintain and be able to prove the highest levels of quality and safety at all times. Continuous, networked environmental monitoring can help ensure that such standards are monitored and maintained.

A revised standard to update the 2002 version of the Food Hygiene Regulations was published in January of this year to reflect new EU legislation designed to improve traceability and the control of allergens. The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2005 will require companies to start recording and verifying food safety management based on HACCP principles, proportionate to the size and the nature of the business. What this means is that businesses now need to put monitoring systems in place which will record and log that food safety standards have been maintained.

OPENXTRA can assist UK companies with the implementation of BRC (British Retail Consortium) and CMi ((formerly Checkmate International) Accreditation standards and has already assisted members of Kentish Garden Marketing and Northern Ireland Seafood. Installing the Sensatronics monitors in warehouses, food processing plants or coldstores will ensure that temperature and humidity, condensation or wetness can be continuously monitored, graphed and logged. In addition, the Sensatronics monitoring solution can alert the user instantly to problems such as an air conditioning, temperature control or freezer breakdown, no matter where they are or at what time of day, so that they can quickly pinpoint the problem and take measures to save stock.

How The Sensatronics Monitors Work

Sensatronics Temperature and Environmental Monitors are easy to set up and connect directly to a computer network, or, as with the F Model, can connect directly to a PC. Permanent probes (from 50-2500ft in length) are then placed wherever temperature, humidity and wetness need to be measured. These probes feed the data back to a base unit which has a built-in web server. With the monitoring software the user can then view, graph and log environmental parameters on a PC; set the frequency with which you want temperature etc to be polled (down to a minimum of every minute); and set up alerts and alarms should temperatures rise or fall outside set parameters. The alarms feature will allow individuals or teams to be alerted via email or SMS texting to mobiles or fixed line phones.

Packaged systems are available from around 400GBP. Further information can be obtained from the website at http://www.openxtra.co.uk or by phone on +44 (0)1943 465918.

About OPENXTRA Limited

Founded early in 2003, OPENXTRA has rapidly gained a reputation as the UK's leading source of network management and temperature and environmental monitoring tools and information, and are the European Distributors for the Sensatronics Range of Temperature and Environmental Monitoring Solutions. OPENXTRA customers come from all sectors, from public organisations such as Worthing Council, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council to private sector organisations like Addleshaw Goddard, Micro-Fidelio GmbH and Datamart (Scotland) Limited.

About Sensatronics

Founded over 15 years ago, Sensatronics quickly developed the reputation as the vendor of choice for organisations whose future depends upon monitoring the environment. Doubling its volume six or more times each year, Sensatronics has developed a dynamic partnering programme to assure that customers’ application takes full advantage of the ever increasing features of the Sensatronics environmental monitoring equipment. Their customers range from SMEs to global enterprises and include Highwood Cold Storage, The United States National Weather Service, Scientific and Medical Labs and Mount Everest researchers.