Electronic Food Storage Monitoring
- Meets efficiently EU Quality Control Standards for food storage by logging data automatically
- Avoids catastrophic incidents by alerting controllers when faults occur
E-coli and salmonella food poisoning cases are quite unusual in Britain but it is still important for monitoring the conditions in which food is stored to prevent these bacteria from spreading.
Temperature monitoring and alarm system
OCC were involved with an important radio-based temperature monitoring and alarm system on behalf of Woodley Electronics. The software developed by OCC for this project is an enhancement to a previous existing refrigerated transport temperature recorder.
OCC software helps monitor temperatures in small-to-medium-sized installations in the food storage sector and is used by retail food outlets such as supermarkets or dairies.
The system is needed to ensure that temperatures in food storage refrigerators are maintained within the limits laid down by Environmental Health Regulations. Some insurers require the installation of such a system before insurance is bought.
How the software works
- Temperature sensors within the installations gather data.
- This data is then transmitted at 5-minute intervals by radio transmitters.
- The temperature values are then logged, providing a history of temperatures within an installation for any given period of time, in minutes or days.
- The current values are checked against user-defined limits.
- If the temperature falls outside these set limits, an alarm is activated and action taken..
All significant events and alarms are stored and a log of the last 64 events can be printed out on a regular basis or on demand.
Electronic Temperature Recorder
(Support for Woodley Electronics is now provided by AAW Control Systems)
