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In 1998 Amir Antebi from SITEST became the Fourier Australian & New Zealand Distributor.

For the food transportation and supermarket chain we recently completed a product demonstration...
The application process begins at a huge chiller, as big as a football field, with 7 loading docks on each side. They receive meat after processing. Before it is sent to supermarkets across the country it is divided up into different cuts and combinations and designated a transportation run to a different city. On arrival the cuts are again divided for delivery to the local supermarkets.

The meat's temperature throughout this process has to be constantly monitored. It cannot freeze or go above a certain temperature. The customer is experiencing problems with the current data logger because it takes 10 days to receive the data after a transportation run. This is too late and the customer is suffering large costs in spoilage because there is no way to immediately detect alarm breaches and if it was the responsibility of the transport company or at the receiving shop.

The supermarket chain was particularly attracted to the Fourier product because of the wireless and alarm features. The MicroLogPLUS can place a receiver, software and Internet connection at any point on the chain. With alarms via SMS, or pager the customer knows immediately, well before the doors open, if there has been any breach in temperature level. With the alert, action can be taken and responsibility can be assigned. The downloaded data clearly shows whether the threshold level was crossed during transportation, on the dock, or in the store.

During the demonstration we set up the receiver in the customer onsite office which was in direct line of sight to the docking area. Four loggers were placed on the trucks which then left the dock and traveled in the area. We were able to receive transmission up to a range of 150m from the docking point, which was well out of line of sight. Earlier when I was evaluating the MicroLogPlus system I conducted a test to see the maximum distance I could still receive the signal from the MicroLog cradle. Testing near our office, my daughter walked away from the office with a data logger and I only stopped receiving in the office when she was beyond a range of 450m and that's with lots of houses, trees and walls.

The customer was very happy with the results of the test, since for the application's need that was more than enough - data can be captured from the truck entering the parking bay, even before parking maneuvering. Currently we are in stage two, with the customer having ordered a number of units for field trial.