CryoHub, Implementing smart monitoring solutions

Smart Monitoring Solutions: A key differentiator in the Industrial Sector

The Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) both connect devices to the internet and make them smarter. Where IoT helps consumers to live more convenient and easier lives, IIoT – particularly in terms of smart monitoring solutions – works to increase the safety and efficiency of industrial applications.

When it comes to specialised logistics and production facilities, the application of IIoT has enabled maintenance teams to move from reactive maintenance to proactive and preventive maintenance. Thanks to smart monitoring solutions, small technical issues can now be identified and resolved before they become significant problems that interfere with business continuity or severely impact the bottom line.

5 Key benefits of implementing smart monitoring solutions

Essentially, smart monitoring solutions facilitate real-time monitoring of assets and processes, which allows businesses to spend less time trying to detect, analyse and mitigate issues with critical assets and processes. In addition, smart monitoring solutions support the optimisation of human resources, increase safety of operations and reduce operational expenditure.

Here are five key benefits of implementing smart monitoring solutions at an industrial facility:

1. Save energy

Remote monitoring enhances the environmental performance of a building and assists with the implementation of effective sustainability programmes.

2. Safeguard sensitive products

Smart monitoring solutions help to protect the condition and promote the longevity of temperature-sensitive products such as food, medicine and biological or chemical samples.

3. Optimise equipment

The remote monitoring of assets allows for the implementation of novel maintenance models such as condition-based maintenance and maintenance as a service. With smart monitoring solutions, you can analyse asset information and get maintenance recommendations without being physically present at your facility.

4. Improve response times

Smart monitoring solutions enable you to detect and respond to otherwise escalating situations as they happen, finding resolutions faster. Having the technology to solve a problem before it intensifies can save significantly on costs.

5. Reduce the need for hands-on work

Remote monitoring enables remote inspections. Where data would normally be gathered manually, smart monitoring solutions make it possible to monitor and analyse the same data off-site. Remote monitoring reduces the number of staff required at the facility itself and also provides greater flexibility in planning hands-on processes.

CryoHub – Delivering data where and when you need it

CryoHub is an industry-leading data logging and alert system, developed to provide total hands-on control and remote web access capability. Essentially, it enables you to deliver data where and when you need it. This bespoke CryoHub software has been developed in-house by Quantum Cryogenics software engineers.

The Quantum range of smart IoT devices connect remotely to the state-of-the-art CryoHub software to provide total hands-on control and global web access capability in real time. This allows you to access single point powerful graphics locally and integrated reporting remotely.

We have ensured real-time data is available on applications ranging from cryogenic vessels at scale in a Cryobank, to tank fleets travelling globally. Our production facilities, experience and focus on constant development allows us to integrate the most up to date electronic concepts with tried and tested industry techniques.

This helps to ensure true operational peace of mind, anywhere and at anytime. With our globally connected smart monitoring solutions, we can help keep your people, assets and technology safe.

Smart devices, creative solutions, wherever you are

IIoT has changed the way industrial plants and facilities operate, with smart monitoring solutions becoming a key differentiator when it comes to long-term business success and sustainability. Predictive analytics are now a fundamental part of the decision-making process.

Having access to remote monitoring services empowers facility managers to reduce costs, prevent unnecessary downtime and improve environmental performance by observing small changes in performance data of key equipment which give early warnings of potential equipment failure.

Performance data of many system metrics such as pressures, compressor performance and liquid nitrogen fill frequencies can all be monitored using IIoT, allowing facility managers to plan routine maintenance rather than suffer the major outages caused by emergency failure of parts. It also allows companies to provide enhanced services to their customers, setting them apart from the competition.

Adopting smart monitoring solutions

As with many emerging technologies, businesses may be hesitant to adopt smart monitoring solutions, often preferring to ‘wait things out’ to understand if the technology is really worth investing in. The downside of not being an early adopter in the Innovation Adoption Lifecycle is that you will be least likely to benefit from the adoption, having hesitated to make the investment. When it comes to IIoT, the future is now.

Smart monitoring solutions are going to play an increasing role in unlocking the innovation potential of IIoT towards improving the bottom line. At Quantum Cryogenics, we are setting the standard in quality, reliability and innovation so that our customers can focus on their real business without having to worry about whether biological samples are safe, temperatures are correct, or laboratory vessels are empty.

Our range of smart IoT devices connect remotely to our state of the art CryoHub software to provide total hands on control and global web access capability in real time.