ULTRA LOW TEMPERATURE FREEZER AT −85°C; LOW TEMPERATURE FREEZER AT −40°C; BIOLOGICAL BANK HPL
DESCRIPTION
KW is always very innovative and gets inspiration by the news from informatics, electronics and thermodynamics. KW has thought a controller with a technology based on micro processor ARM9, Dual Core, the same processor applied in smart-phones. It’s name is i-KW.
I-KW works with operative system Linux and it’s a true on– board computer. The new controller has a graphic interface, done with a touch screen TFT DISPLAY.
KW slogan is: let’s put an iPad in our apparatus!
This controller, not only is equipped with a more powerful processor and with much capacity of memory RAM, if compared to the previous models, it has an user interface so direct, that anyone will find it really user-friendly.
CONNECTIVITY, TRACEABILITY AND TOTAL SAFETY
Guarantying the maximum connectivity and traceability, i-KW is able to satisfy the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry and health laboratories, completely.
The low temperature freezers HPL, with the new smart controller i-KW, can have a full connectivity with the laboratory environmental, by means of: slot USB, slot SIM, Wi-Fi, Ethernet wired, and RS485 port with ModBus protocol.
Above all, the Wi-Fi connection will make the HPL freezer visible in the LAN of the hospital or of the industrial laboratory.
From a PC workstation, connected in the same network as the freezer, through the browser, you can connect with the refrigeration unit by typing the IP address of the same.
Or, from any Internet terminal in the world will be able to connect to the refrigeration unit accessing the static IP address of the company, whose network is connected in the freezer, of course having the login credentials, which may be granted by the administrator corporate network.
The controller also warrants a full traceability, since the system continuously records, at high
frequency, the functional data, bar codes, or other forms of coding, combining them with the freezing or cryo preservation process, etc. The user, without needing any specifi c SW, will be able to transfer the data to PC and/or to LAN in a very friendly way thanks to the standards which are developed in compliance with Windows. The smart controller i-KW has been designed to guarantee an integrated safety about all the functions, through the regulation and the management of the refrigeration power. The data recording complies with the most evolved standards, like GMP, JACIE, FACT, and so on. There is also the availability of a temperature – time graphic, with no need to install a specifi c recorder.
THE INNOVATION OF HUMAN INTERFACE
A true challenge to the common sense for dimensions, structure and possible information. I-KW is the new reference for the user interface and for the connectivity attached to the control of the temperature freezers, where a simple, intuitive and nice to see interface is combined with a sophisticated management of the refrigeration unit.
- Recording of the functional variables on SD card, in real time
- Menu sensitive to the fingering (touch) with many windows and with temperature graphics
- USB interface on the front panel to download the temperature recording and updating (SW-FW)
- Possibility of door opening, in safety (password) through touch button or transponder
- Italian, English, French, Spanish, German languages available
THE ACCESS CONTROL AND THE AIDED MAINTENANCE
The HPL freezers, equipped with the new i-KW controller, have a controlled access: it comes as standard the possibility to use an electronic key (alphanumerical code customized by the user) to put together with an electrical lock for a controlled door opening, or, as optional equipment, to use a badge or transponder (or finger pass, with the finger print storage).
The new i-KW controller guarantees high use simplicity and an easy maintenance. The user will be able to arrange many tools which will teach him how to use them.
Think to the possibility to have a user guide on display and to scroll it as if it was a smart phone; and therefore to enjoy immediately an user manual, a start up sequence, or video fi les, which show the maintenance activities and so on.
Through the possibility for the manufacturer or the service engineer to connect by an IP address, and by a sequence of passwords (safety and traceability) to ask questions to the freezer status, or to modify the parameters, the freezer management can also happen from remote, with low costs and in very short time, with undoubted advantages for the failures preventing.
It will be possible to activate a telecare, with the mailing of instructions and recommendations on display, activating GSM function, by the slot for SIM.
The new controller assures safer procedures, automatic recording of the data and shorter working time for the technician.
In fact it obtains the maximum saving for the procedures of freezing, storage, by the automatic writing of the introduced items, by the automatic recording of materials and thermal cycle, and their association. In this way it obtains to amend many errors and many not conformities of the laboratory processes, and in last analysis it gives a sensible saving of the indirect costs.
The control and recording of all the functional parameters, by the computer memory, guarantees a very high operative efficiency, allowing the measurements of the energy consumpation and the actuation of the parameters useful for COP rising together with Green Ice project.
The user can display also the recording of electrical consumpation.
New functions and an arrangement to future updating
About energy saving, the smart controller i-KW has new functions:
ECO MODE
allows raising the temperature set during the night hours with a pre-definite value (settable by the user or by the manufacturer)
ENERGY SAVING
allows, when the percentage of the compressor use reaches a pre definite value, to raise the temperature set point, temporarily and automatically, with a pre definite value (settable by the user or by the manufacturer). The restore, at the pre definite conditions, happens automatically. These two new functions allow to integrate themselves to those offered by NIA system and to aid the energy saving and the reduction of the global warming, with a smaller not direct CO2 emission in the atmosphere.
The energy saving is at least -15%, in comparison with a standard ultra low freezer, only through Night Mode and Eco Mode.
Besides, the new controller is equipped to accept future updating easily and at low costs, so it’ll be able to adapt itself to the new technological innovations and to response to the raising requirements from the rules and the directives in pharmaceutical and health field.
Smart controller i-KW is the last stage of the art for the control system of the ultra low temperaturefreezers.
Display to set and to read the temperature:
i–KW video – graphic interface is a color touch screen display 7” TFT; micro processor ARM9 technology , the same processor used in the smart phones, which functions with Linux operative system; menu sensitive to the fi ngering with many windows and with temperature graphics; system available in 5 languages: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish.
- Controller startup and shutdown: access protected by electronic key with password
CONTROL SYSTEM:
control, recording, supervision, full traceability of all the parameters and the events, full connectivity to the environmental, very high safety about the operations and the accesses. 2-ch monitoring kit with two independent RTD Pt 100 O (class A) sensors; one for the regulation and one for the temperature alarm and for automatic recording of the temperature and the alarms; recording in real time of all the functional variables on SD card and on USB port; this last part on the front panel to download data of thermal recording and for updating; registration in SQL format for easy reading by dedicated software KW80CRC TRACER; Pb or Ni-MH backup battery; and batteryrecharge circuit.
- Set point and alarm limits change: controlled change through an electronic key, with password against violations, accidental handlings, and for the best traceability.
- Access to the menu, with sensible data and parameters: controlled access to SW parameters, by electronic key, for the maximum security and in compliance with laboratory rules and standard.
- All data are continously recorded on SD card and on USB Port.
