How does your facilities team manage critical emergencies around the clock? How do you ensure that every environmental issue is accurately traced back to its source? What if an undetected issue leads to a catastrophic failure compromising your facility’s reputation? Can you rely on your current system to alert you of every potential environmental threat? What if a critical alarm goes unnoticed because your team is spread too thin?

Facilities

How We Do It

Facilities are responsible for maintaining ideal lab conditions to ensure scientific accuracy and compliance. With 24/7 live agent monitoring & support, we act as an extension of your team, offering expertise, vigilance, and peace of mind. Whether it's preventive maintenance, energy usage, safety, or ensuring environmental parameters are running smoothly, we've got you covered.

Facility

Air Quality

Air quality must be constantly tested for temperature, humidity, and often times differential pressure, VOCs, and airborne particles. Continuous monitoring ensures a contaminant-free environment, essential for the integrity of samples and the safety of personnel.

- Particle Counting: Particle counting is a critical aspect of air quality monitoring in a laboratory environment due to the sensitivity of various experiments and processes to environmental contamination. Continuous particle counting is preferred over portable solutions as it offers comprehensive insights and real-time alerts, ensuring the integrity and reliability of your facility’s conditions.
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) can contaminate laboratory environments and affect experiments. VOC sensors monitor and measure the presence of harmful organic compounds to maintain air quality.
- rH&T: These sensors ensure that ambient conditions remain stable, safeguarding the stability of humidity and temperature that could affect the storage environment.
- Seasonal Trending: Focusing on rH&T, seasonal trending involves monitoring and analyzing data over time to understand environmental patterns and their impacts on environmental conditions. This helps in predicting and mitigating seasonal variations that could affect sample integrity and experimental outcomes.
- Air Flow Monitoring: Whether you’re monitoring differential pressure between rooms within a facility, or air flow in flow hoods and biosafety cabinets, understanding how air is moving is critical to maintain a controlled environment.
- Differential Pressure (DP): these sensors monitor pressure differences across rooms.
- Ambient O₂: Monitoring oxygen levels is essential for ensuring a safe and controlled environment. Proper oxygen levels are crucial for both human safety and the integrity of experiments that are sensitive to oxygen concentrations.

Gas Manifolds

Gas manifolds distribute gasses to various laboratory equipment. Gas flow sensors are essential for monitoring and regulating the flow of gasses through the manifold, ensuring consistent and accurate gas delivery to support operations when tanks need to be switched. The type of manifold will have a huge impact on what you can remotely monitor so it’s critical to understand the options when selecting them.

- Gas Flow Sensors: These sensors track gas flow through the manifold.
- Inline Gas Pressure: Maintaining precise gas pressure is crucial for various applications. Gas pressure sensors monitor inline gas pressure to ensure stable conditions.
- Dry Contacts / 4-20mA Outputs: Digital gas manifolds offer options to remotely monitor parameters such as: level, pressure, automatic switchover, and more. Be sure to consult your vendor to get the options most important for your team.

Backup Power

Backup generators and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) are critical for ensuring continuous power supply in your facility. Monitoring the stability and availability of power prevents operational disruptions that could compromise sample integrity and experimental outcomes.

Door Contacts

Door contacts monitor the status of lab doors, cold storage units and incubators to ensure security and proper recovery if conditions are breached.

Leak & Flood Monitoring

Placing flood/leak sensors under sinks and laboratory equipment, with capabilities to send out notifications, is a simple and effective safeguard. Leaks and floods can be discovered before they wreak havoc and be attended to promptly before the damage gets done.

Water Quality

Maintaining high water quality is essential for many processes. Water quality sensors monitor water purity to ensure it meets required standards.

- pH: pH levels are critical for many chemical and biological experiments.
- Total Organic Carbon (TOC): Maintaining water purity requires ongoing TOC analysis. Filtration systems can sometimes fail, leading to water that falls short of required standards, which may cause contamination. It's crucial to have monitoring systems for every water source in your lab, as fluctuations in TOC can negatively affect the lab environment, manufacturing processes, scientific reproducibility, and even human health.
- Water Flow: These sensors can measure flow through a pipe.

Local/Visual Alarms

Local and visual alarms, such as LED indicators and flashing lights are essential for immediate notification of any deviations in cleanroom conditions. These alarms provide instant feedback to personnel, allowing for quick corrective actions.

Vacuum Pump

Vacuum pumps are used to create low-pressure environments for various applications. Monitoring vacuum levels ensures the effectiveness of the pump, supporting applications that require precise pressure control and preventing potential equipment failure.

Light Intensity

Light intensity affects various processes, including experiments and sample storage. Monitoring light exposure helps maintain optimal conditions, ensuring that light-sensitive experiments and materials are protected from degradation.

XiltriX Sensors & Integrations

  
    Backup Power
    Door Contacts (Open/Close/Recovery)
  
    rH&T
    HVAC
  
    Dry Contacts
    Air Flow Monitoring
  
    Inline Gas Pressure
    Gas Manifold
  
     O2 Sensors
    Flow Sensors (Internal/External)
  
    Light Intensity
    Seasonal Trending
  
    Particle Counting
    VOCs
  
    Differential Pressure (DP)
    Vacuum Pump
  
    TOC Counts
    pH Sensors
  
    Leak & Flood Monitoring

+ Many More

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