Datalogging made easy....

Data loggers are used world-wide to monitor environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, shock and vibration. Their small size but high accuracy mean they can be placed within cold stores, delivery vehicles, pallet loads or even individual cartons or refrigerators, to carefully record the conditions under which your products are being stored and transported.

The data captured is downloaded to a PC for analysis, thus highlighting any areas for concern and allowing specific corrective action to be taken where necessary.

In the food industry, European directives indicate that any organisation involved in the preparation, storage or transportation of food should be able to verify that the temperatures have been maintained at the specified levels (due diligence). Data logging can give total traceability from the moment the food is received to the time it is delivered to the customer or supermarket. Accurate environmental monitoring can assist companies to ensure that cooling and ventilation systems are used to maximum advantage, keeping energy use and costs to a minimum.

For growers of fresh produce, data logging provides an accurate record of temperatures experienced during the growth, preparation and transportation of their produce.

For shippers, data logging verifies that conditions within the transporting vehicles are maintained within the required levels.

Dairy companies in the Gulf are using loggers to ensure delivery truck drivers are not leaving vehicle doors open for long periods, or switching off refrigeration units. Fresh produce suppliers use them to monitor cold stores are maintained at the correct temperatures, whilst hotels use them to monitor food service points.

A model for every application

There is a wide choice of loggers to choose from so please contact us for details of specific models. Some of the features available include;

• Dual channel loggers recording temperature and humidity on a single instrument.
• Dual channel loggers with two temperature probes (e.g. inside and outside air temp.)
• Temperature ranges of -50 to +300ºC, humidity of 0 to 100% RH
• Loggers to record the 'Open or Closed' status of cold store doors.
• Submersible models to measure temperatures inside water tanks
• Loggers with LCD panels to display temperature and humidity whilst recording
• Intrinsically safe models
• Loggers to record shock, vibration and light exposure.

Also available are a number of different types of probe include surface, stab type, fast response and armoured cable type.

User friendly software

Loggers are programmed using the Windows® based TinyTag Explorer software. Variables such as the frequency of data acquisition, high and low alarm status, start time (immediate or delayed or operator triggered), action on memory full (overwrite or stop recording) and many others can all be set by the operator. Every time the data is downloaded, these parameters can be changed if required.

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