Working Smarter: Leveraging IoT Technology to Automate Environmental Monitoring in the Laboratory

Presentation Description: For many environmental laboratories, monitoring temperature in assets like refrigerators, freezers, incubators, and water baths is a manual and time-consuming process. Due to regulatory requirements, this means walking around the lab jotting down temperature readings on paper, sometimes twice a day. Then that data is transcribed into a database and included in monthly and annual compliance reporting. However, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology revolution has opened the door to solutions which brings a new level of automation to environmental monitoring and eliminating the need for manual temperature checks.

This presentation will focus on how IoT-based solutions are being used today by water/wastewater/environmental labs today to continuously monitor temperature in critical assets like refrigerators and freezers as well as incubators and water baths. The primary goal of these solutions is to eliminate manual and paper processes, improve lab efficiency and data quality, ensure regulatory compliance and trigger alerts when temperature readings fall outside preset limits. In addition, the following topics will be covered:
• How Does It Work? Walkthrough of an IoT Continuous Monitoring Solution in a Water/Wastewater Laboratory
• Peace of Mind: Preventing Sample Loss Due to Failing Cold Storage Assets
• The Power of Data in the Cloud – The Need for Access to Real-time and Historical Analytics and Reporting Anytime and Anywhere
• Using a Public API to Enable Seamless Integration With Your Existing Applications
• Real World Perspective: How One CWEA Member Laboratory is Using an IoT Continuous Monitoring Solution to Increase Lab Productivity,
Safeguard Against Equipment Failure, and Maintain Compliance Requirements