Food Service Monitoring
CenTrak's Food Service Environmental Monitoring system provides continuous, automated temperature tracking with accurate sensors and software to ensure safe storage of perishable food and dishwasher rinse temperatures in healthcare settings, reducing food waste, enhancing safety, eliminating manual checks, enabling regulatory compliance, and delivering real-time alerts for temperature deviations.
Food Service Environmental Monitoring for Healthcare
CenTrak's environmental monitoring solutions are designed to monitor perishable food items to ensure proper storage safety and maintain shelf life. Dishwasher rinse temperatures are also monitored in accordance with HACCP standards.
Key Benefits
- Reduce Food Waste and Ensure Safety: Continuous tracking of temperatures ensures that all dietary and nutritional items are safe for consumption by patients, staff, and visitors.
- Automated Alerts: Wireless LCD temperature display sensors and intuitive software solutions auto-generate alerts (audible, SMS, email, visual) when temperatures deviate from set parameters.
- Eliminate Manual Collection: Manual temperature collection can be inconsistent, inaccurate, and time-consuming. Automated systems provide more reliable data and reduce the risk of human error.
Automated Temperature Monitoring
- Accurate Sensors and Robust Software: CenTrak's solution includes accurate sensors, robust software applications, and NIST certification services.
- Continuous Monitoring: Automated monitoring provides confidence that food is safe and ready to serve, avoiding dangers associated with human error.
Features
- Continuous Automated Monitoring: Ensures items are properly stored and handled.
- Food Safety: Guarantees access to safe, healthy food for everyone in the facility.
- Loss Prevention: Avoids costly food waste with continuous temperature monitoring.
- Regulatory Compliance: Simplifies compliance with all applicable regulatory guidelines.
- Staff Efficiency: Eliminates the need for manual temperature monitoring.
Temperature Sensors
- Automatic Monitoring: Monitors refrigerators, freezers, and dishwashers (-200°C to +125°C with select probes).
- Multiple Probes: Each sensor supports up to two separate probes for monitoring multiple environments, as well as door ajar sensing.
- Immediate Viewing and Alerts: Built-in LCD display enables immediate temperature viewing, alarms, and local alert settings.
- Battery and Data Storage:
- Low-battery alert feature
- 2-year battery life
- 5- to 60-minute configurable measurement and reporting rate
- Offline data storage (30 days) in case of network or power outage
Additional Uses
- Clinical Labs
- Vaccine Storage
- Pharmacies
- Blood Banks
- Cryogenic Storage
Real-Time Alerting
- Immediate Notifications: Alerts are triggered by sensing values, device status (probe disconnect, door ajar, low battery), and process breakdowns.
- Customizable Escalation: Real-time notifications and customizable escalation chains enable staff to take immediate action.
- Automatic Logging: Corrective actions are automatically logged for future data analysis.
- Integration: Integration with Active Directory allows alert notifications to be routed based on user permissions and staff scheduling.
- Bulk Configuration: Import/export tool for quick configuration of sensors, users, and alerts.
- Alert Methods:
- SMS/MMS
- Phone Calls
- Alarm, Lights, Strobes
Regulatory Reporting
- Automated Compliance Reporting: Generates reports based on individual sensors or customizable groups (e.g., departmental views) to support regulatory compliance.
- Supported Guidelines:
- 21 CFR Part 11
- Joint Commission
- State Board of Health
- HACCP
- Eliminates Manual Documentation: Reduces time and risk of human error.
Environmental Monitoring Technology
- Scalable and Wireless: Supports fully wireless deployments and various network configurations (CenTrak UHF, Wi-Fi including Cisco CCX, Aruba ACX, UDP, WPA2 Enterprise).
- Multi-Use Infrastructure: Supports a variety of RTLS use cases from a single vendor.
- Easy Management: Devices are fully configurable in the field, support over-the-air firmware upgrades, and BLE connectivity for simple setup.
Additional Supported Solutions
- Asset Tracking and Management
- Clinical Workflow Automation
- Staff and Patient Safety
- NIST Certification Services
Safety and Compliance
- ISO-17025 Quality Protocols: CenTrak adheres to these protocols.
- NIST Traceability: Each sensor/probe is tested in-house and is NIST traceable.
- Certification Storage: All NIST certifications are electronically stored.
- Automated Alerts for Re-Certification: Never miss a re-certification deadline.
CenTrak's Real-Time Location System (RTLS) has been implemented in over 2,000 healthcare facilities to increase productivity, streamline workflows, improve satisfaction, and reduce costs.
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