Temperature Monitoring Services

Biomedical Engineering and Equipment Service Co. Inc. (BEESCO) offers a simple cost effective system for continuous temperature monitoring of EMS pharmaceuticals. The system employs Thermochron temperature recording I-buttons. Each Thermochron I-Button stores 1024 date and time stamped temperature readings. Data is retrieved through a standard personal computer serial connection. The data can be imported directly into Excel or similar software for analysis. The Thermochron I-Button can be programmed to record temperatures at intervals from 1 minute to 255 minutes. A sample interval of 20 minutes provides 28 days of temperature monitoring. A one hour sample interval provides 90 days of monitoring. Thermochron I-Buttons s may be reprogrammed for other missions and reused over and over. They have a typical life of five years

Customers may purchase Thermochron I-Buttons; software and the I-Button reader for use with there own computer system or BEESCO can provide a temperature monitoring service.

With our temperature monitoring service, the customer is mailed a supply of Thermochron I-Buttons preprogrammed for a sample rate specified by the customer. When the Thermochron I-Button has filled with temperature data the customer will mail them back to BEESCO via a supplied prepaid mailer. The data will be retrieved and then emailed back to the customer. Replacement Thermochron I-Buttons will then be sent to the customer for the next cycle of temperature monitoring.

Below is an example of data extracted from a Thermochron I-Button

Mission State
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Mission is in progress
Sample rate: 20 minute(s)
Roll-Over Enabled: no
Roll-Over Occured: n/a
Mission Start time: 02/18/2002 00:19
Mission Start delay: 0 minute(s)
Mission Samples: 2708
Device total samples: 43038
Temperatures displayed in: (Fahrenheit)
High Threshold: 86.0
Low Threshold: 50.0
Temperature threshold alarm state: Conditional(none) Alarm(L)
Current Real-Time Clock from DS1921: Wednesday 03/27/2002 14:40:09
Current PC Time: Wednesday 03/27/2002 14:42:25

Log Data
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Format: [Time/Date , Temperature] (Fahrenheit)
02/18/2002 00:19 , 42.8
02/18/2002 00:39 , 42.8
02/18/2002 00:59 , 41.9
02/18/2002 01:19 , 41.0
02/18/2002 01:39 , 41.0
02/18/2002 01:59 , 40.1
02/18/2002 02:19 , 39.2
02/18/2002 02:39 , 39.2
02/18/2002 02:59 , 38.3
02/18/2002 03:19 , 38.3
02/18/2002 03:39 , 37.4
02/18/2002 03:59 , 37.4
02/18/2002 04:19 , 36.5
02/18/2002 04:39 , 36.5
02/18/2002 04:59 , 35.6
02/18/2002 05:19 , 35.6
02/18/2002 05:39 , 34.7
02/18/2002 05:59 , 34.7
02/18/2002 06:19 , 33.8
02/18/2002 06:39 , 33.8

 

Thermochron I-Button Temperature Monitoring Device

 

Thermochron I-Button inside a quick response vehicle drug storage box

 
 
Typical Thermochron I-Button data recorded for 90 days at 1 hour intervals

Area between red lines is where the ambulance was out of service and parked outside unpowered for approximately two weeks for a transmission replacement. All temperature readings were made at 60-minute intervals

 
 

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