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In most organizations, information travels along familiar routes. Proprietary information is lodged in databases and analyzed in reports and then rises up the management chain. Information also originates externally—gathered from public sources, harvested from the Internet, or purchased from information suppliers. But the predictable pathways of information are changing: the physical world itself is becoming a type of information system.
In what’s called the Internet of Things, sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects—from roadways to pacemakers—are linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that connects the Internet. These networks churn out huge volumes of data that flow to computers for analysis. Www.automation.com/pdf_articles/Using_smart_field_devices_to_improve_safety_system_performance.pdf. ARIA : Retour d'expérience sur accidents technologiques. Www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/wp-content/files_mf/Sensorsindustrialautomation_GB.pdf. Brewery_parking_structure.pdf. IntelligentM Wristband Monitors Hand Hygiene, Vibrates to Provide Staff Alerts. When the nurse places her hand under a tagged sanitizer or soap dispenser, the wristband reader interrogates the tag mounted there.
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A look at Nebraska Medicine’s Biocontainment Patient Care Unit shows how HTM departments can prepare not just for Ebola but for any other highly contagious diseases. Binseng Wang responds to clinical engineering pioneer, Ode Keil, who recently wrote an essay in the Journal of Clinical Engineering wondering whether CE is on life support. William Hyman steps on the Soapbox to explain why new and updated standards are not always better than the ones they replace, and why the HTM community should be involved in the standards development process. 24×7 editor John Bethune talks with Laurent La Brie of Johns Hopkins Hospital, recently named the “most interesting biomed of 2014.” In June 2014, the American Association for Medical Instrumentation launched AAMI University.
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Scheduling devices, such as intelligent control panels or occupancy sensors, can accomplish this task. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, energy savings from using such devices can range from 40% to 46% in classrooms, 13% to 50% in private offices, 30% to 90% in restrooms, 22% to 65% in conference rooms, 30% to 80% in corridors, and 45% to 80% in storage areas.
Besides providing a means of minimizing energy consumption, additional uses of occupancy sensors include security (by indicating that an area is occupied), and minimizing light pollution (by reducing the usage of lighting operating at night), whether it be outdoor lighting or indoor lighting emitting through windows or skylights. Step 1: Choose the right sensor technology. Lighting: what have we done, and what were the energy savings? It is estimated that there is 4.78MW of artificial lighting installed across the University’s main estate.
If used for a period of 10 hours every day this would consume around 17.4GWh of electricity. This usage equates to the average electricity consumed by over 5,200 households or, similarly, would meet the domestic electricity needs of more than 10% of the population of the city of Cambridge. We are implementing and trialing a number of energy-saving lighting technologies, including both more efficient lamps and fittings and enhanced lighting control systems: University-wide roll out of wireless occupancy sensorsLighting replacement programme: replacing traditional light bulbs with low voltage LED lampsLED lighting trials in plant growth facilities (top image).
University-wide roll out of wireless occupancy sensors In 2012, the ECRP (Energy and Carbon Reduction Project) funded a trial installation of wireless occupancy sensors in the Gurdon Institute. How Do I Get Involved. Www.rsbdubai.gov.ae/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ref_RSB-MV-protocol_20140113.pdf. IN EN ISO 50001 - Google. Case Studies - Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Campaign. Lighting Controls Strategies Can Save Money - Facilities Management Lighting Feature. StumbleUpon August 2010 - Lighting Bear in mind that lighting upgrades go beyond lamps, ballasts and fixtures.
To further increase efficiency and savings, controllable lighting is not just something that's "good to have. " It's a necessity for creating a truly efficient lighting system. However, as important as lighting controls are for energy savings, most facility professionals still have not implemented a facilitywide controls system in their buildings. "With only 1 percent of buildings using controls, this is often one of the most overlooked, yet most effective, technologies in saving energy through lighting," Casanova says. Upgrading to lighting controls can save as much as 50 percent of the energy used in a commercial building, says Bob Freshman, marketing manager for Leviton Lighting Management Systems.
A range of lighting control strategies are available to help facility managers be efficient. Industry Perspectives. The monitoring and management of hospital personnel potentially exposed to patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has brought a renewed focus to the protocols, equipment and isolation rooms used in these quarantine situations.
Although Ebola is not considered an airborne disease, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that healthcare facilities restrict certain procedures and treatment for Ebola patients to a private room – ideally an Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) – when feasible. In a healthcare facility, control of airborne contaminants is essential to providing a safe, healing environment. Yet many healthcare facilities today still rely on smoke tubes or flutter strips to check the airflow and differential pressure of critical healthcare areas, including the AIIRs being used when treating certain infectious diseases. The challenge is time. Last week, Primex Wireless was made aware of yet another serious vulnerability discovered in the global IT community.
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Why is this so? Is it because of the lack of customer demand for innovation? Which begs the question: Who is the customer? Is it, as Jim implies, the building manager? In the broader field of Information Technology, where the only constant is change, innovation is driven by both end-customer demand as well as competition for customers by vendors. The IT manager – the equivalent of the building manager seeks to align IT systems to end customer’s requirements. Webstore.iec.ch/preview/info_iec60950-1%7Bed2.0%7Den_d.pdf. Pharmaceutical Outsourcing - The Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Contract Services. Introduction Temperature–sensitive medicinal products deliver unique value to the end–user while introducing several logistical risks to the shipper.
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About 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is a significant public health burden that is largely preventable. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law by President Obama on Jan. 4, enables FDA to better protect public health by strengthening the food safety system.
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Smart bridge technologies are being implemented in the redesign, providing more efficient and real-time monitoring and inspection. Smart Bridges in Action This tragedy may have been prevented had the bridge been equipped with a network of smart bridge sensors providing continuous monitoring of various properties. Beyond the Basics Whitepaper for Connected Fleet Telematics. With data at your fingertips, connected fleet solutions use telematics technology to accurately measure a variety of activities, allowing organizations to develop policies that aim to improve key metrics and then enforce those policies to make meaningful change. By measuring performance more accurately and in the context of time and location organizations can more readily identify and realize areas for operational savings. These efforts inevitably lead to a stronger bottom line. Www.moorinsightsstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Connecting-with-the-Industrial-Internet-of-Things-IIoT-by-Moor-Insights-Strategy.pdf.
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The 242-bed facility handles 35,000 outpatient visits and delivers 2,225 babies annually. A study entitled "A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time? " analyzed staff efficiency and found that nurses traveled 1 to 5 five miles per 10-hour shift—with a median of 3 miles—and that three-quarters of their time was devoted to their nursing practice. The article, published in The Permanente Journal, further found that 6.6 percent of the nurses' time was spent engaging in activities categorized as waste, such as wandering around the hospital searching for needed equipment. Terri Simpson-Tucker, assistant administrator of Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center. Comparing Pharmaceutical Continuous Monitoring Systems: Part 2.
Wired, wireless, and stand-alone monitoring instruments Ken Appel is the manager of regulated industries for Veriteq. In part 1 of this article, we discussed the pros and cons of various systems for stand-alone monitoring instruments (e.g., chart recorders and data loggers) and wired networks, with and without power over Ethernet (POE). In the second part of this article, we will look at two types of wireless monitoring—Wi-Fi and mesh—and continue the discussion of the risk factors (figure 1) and costs of ownership (figure 2). Www.testo.sk/resources/media/global_media/campaigns/pharma_saveris_logger/TR_PS_Grieshaber_EN.pdf. FDA 21 CFR PART 11 compatible HMI/SCADA system zenon. Www.testo.com.tr/resources/media/global_media/campaigns/pharma_saveris_logger/TS_PS_Saveris_Pharma_EN.pdf.
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