IDC unveils Zigbee wireless monitoring device
IDC Technologies
Zigbee wireless monitoring device
IDC has introduced the ZB110 Zigbee wireless monitoring device, to provide safeguards for the secure temperature monitoring of critical healthcare assets, such as vaccines, drugs and blood.
The ZB110 is an extremely low-power device designed for installation in fridges and freezers at healthcare facilities.
It can be programmed to activate automatically and report event-driven occurrences, such as under-/over-temperatures, or at preset intervals, as part of a compliance assurance programme.
The ZB110 is simpler and cheaper than other WPANs such as Bluetooth, and it can be incorporated into small, inexpensive chips that consume minimal power.
It can provide wireless personal area networking (WPAN) digital radio connections between computers and related devices, such as sensors.
Zigbee provides two-way communications between nodes; these nodes can relay each other's traffic, bypassing wired networks completely.
This feature offers significant benefits for the medical user.
It provides remote monitoring and logging of temperature readings on a centralised PC, at pre-arranged intervals, and allows the subsequent preparation of reports.
It also sounds alarms locally and centrally when temperatures go out of limit; IDC can program the Zigbee node to send a message as soon as it detects a temperature problem.
Finally, it enables password-authorised personnel to interrogate the ZB110 Zigbee node remotely, to determine and, if necessary, change the temperatures at which the healthcare assets are stored.
These changes are also logged and stored.
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