Wi-Fi cold storage monitor with years of battery life

GainSpan Corp., an Intel spin-off, has released the “first” Wi-Fi cold storage monitor that provides up to five to 10 years of battery life. SentinelPro, the product brought out by Aginova Inc., a manufacturer of specialized wireless subsystems, is based on GainSpan's ultra-low power GS1010 Wi-Fi SoC. Leveraging the existing ubiquitous Wi-Fi network, the new solution offers the most advanced Wi-Fi sensing hardware, a portable alarm unit, and a comprehensive software package for monitoring, reporting, and storing of critical storage condition data over time.

With SentinelPro, authorized personnel can view precise data over enterprise class security links, and provide alerts in the event that environmental conditions vary beyond a specified range. The system can page, e-mail and visually alert any computer screen whenever food, lab samples, pharmaceuticals or other temperature sensitive items are outside prescribed parameters.

Utilizing Wi-Fi for temperature monitoring enables a cost effective way to improve patient care and maintain regulatory compliance while providing automated and detailed reports on any piece of equipment for any time period for JCAHO, AOA, CAP, FDA, USDA or the Health Department. In addition, it can also provide temperature logs, operating parameters, alarms and corrective actions to be taken while eliminating human error and the cost of manual temperature documentation.

The software, developed by Aginova, is available in two packages: enterprise grade for integration into a customer's automation system or as a service running on Aginova secure servers. As a result, the new temperature monitoring solution provides the security, manageability, convenience and benefits of Wi-Fi along with five to 10 years of extended battery life.