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In 1998 Amir Antebi from SITEST became the Fourier Australian & New Zealand Distributor. He tells us about new developments in the hospital Laboratory market who are facing huge damage bills because increases in temperature have ruined chemicals, or blood samples.

Currently hospital staff must manually go to each point and take a thermometer reading by hand. Regulatory bodies check the data which must be recorded to strict specifications. An automatic system which logs directly to file and delivers alarms when thresholds are crossed would offer huge savings in manpower and product losses. Besides that, samples are regularly moved between hospitals and so Lab managers are also seeking a product that can track the shipment's temperature. In other words not a fixed data application, but the ability to have mobile data logging.

Specific technical issues include:
Ensuring the right person gets the right alert in an application where multiple units are working. For example the microbiology lab shouldn't get an alarm from the pathology lab. Fourier is responding to this by modifying the product so that alarms are assigned for each logger and alarm alerts specify which alarm relates to which person.

They also require temperature sensors to reach -80 degrees centigrade, which Fourier has already been developing for a number of weeks.

The issue of use of radio in proximity to patient wards where there is sensitive equipment is also being examined and documentation checked.

And the length of time before the contact alarm when the door is opened needs to be extended because sometimes work requires a longer period of time inside the refrigerator.