Temperature monitoring vendors

[jd@freshloc.com]

Excellent advise to check out the company in detail before making a choice to partner with a company to help protect your valuable products. You want a company that will be protect your data and support your temp monitoring system for years to come.

A few suggested questions to ask:

How long has the company been involved in automatic temperature monitoring?

Does the company design, own and manufacture thier own products?

Does the system require pc's or servers to operate?

Can the sensor/logger be placed directly in the unit (no drilling or seal breaches)?

Is the data securely stored by a third party?

Is the system scalable?

What is the average costs for a 5, 20, and 200 sensor system?

Do the sensors (loggers) continue to take readings in the event of power or internet loss?

Do you own your data?

Would be glad to answer any other questions anyone has regarding automatic temperature monitoring.

JD

[cmarks]

I agree with JD and Old Timer, it's extremely important to check the company and system they're offering. Couple of things I would add:

- make sure they have local Service Support and 24 hour Technical Support (stuff seems to always go down in the middle of the night and you need the fastest response possible).

- make sure the system can use the network or the web, but not rely on it for data transmissions, alarming, and notification (you don't want to lose those functions if the network goes down).

- ask to see their validation documents (this will tell you a lot about how thorough they are, how comprehensive it is, and how well it will satisfy the auditors when they're inspecting your site).

We also preferred local storage of our data, rather than offsite. We didn't want anyone else having the potential of seeing our data, or paying extra fees for the storage of that data, or the possibility of that connection being broken too.

Make sure to look at multiple groups. You'll make the best decision for you if you compare.

Good luck,

CM

[lcastil1]

Cheryl,

We also have Veriteq in our institution (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX). However, we are having some issues and were wondering if you would be interested in talking to us.

[Cheryl Richards]

Cheryl,

We also have Veriteq in our institution (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX). However, we are having some issues and were wondering if you would be interested in talking to us.

Leo - be happy to talk to you! Your email did not work so call me at 505-841-1349.

Cheryl