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If environmental monitoring is mission critical to your operation, FreshLoc is the “best practice solution” for your peace of mind.

FreshLoc is an environmental monitoring service that keeps your equipment, inventory, assets and environments safe, healthy, reliable and compliant. It is comprised of a sensory network system providing quality control while monitoring mission critical equipment and assets for compliance, safety and operational savings. For minute-by-minute monitoring and for recovery from power outages, equipment problems or mishandling, FreshLoc is your alerting and first-recovery solution to many significant environmental and compliance challenges.

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Information is power
The patented FreshLoc service is based upon tiny wireless sensors that continuously transmit important environmental information. These sensors automatically and continually collect information such as temperature, humidity and other measures through secure networks for real-time and constant reporting.

FreshLoc measures your entire system, providing a single database view of:

• Quality
• Safety
• Equipment operation

This data is used to improve operations by:

• Providing automatic record-keeping for regulatory compliance
• Reducing loss from spoilage – providing early warning of equipment failure
• Reducing maintenance costs by providing a predictive maintenance tool
• Improving energy management
• Eliminating personnel training costs
• Reducing insurance costs

Stay on top of compliance
FreshLoc provides an extensive package of reports for both the managerial and operational levels. Armed with these reports, FreshLoc experts will help you meet and deal with compliance needs and audits.

• Fresh-Look® Reports?? – Fresh-Look® Reports provide a snapshot of all monitored areas. They are automatically created and emailed on a periodic daily basis, depending upon local health code requirements for temperature monitoring. They can be emailed to any number of users and do not create the need for additional paper reports.
• Freshloc Graphs?? – Data from the Fresh-Look® Reports can be graphed for corrective action or equipment performance analysis. For ready-to-eat areas, the graphing feature can be used to analyze daily operations in deli or hot-serve areas.
• Map-View®?? – Map-View® provides managers an "at-a-glance" on-screen report of the status of their facility. It shows an overhead view of the facility with color-coded sensor points that change with temperature variations. Any areas out-of-spec can be immediately identified.

FreshLoc sensors are in or on devices and storage areas, transmitting wirelessly (for up to hundreds of feet) to a small reader/receiver that is connected to the local network or intranet. With Internet connection, data is available for alerting and reporting via cell phone, pager, fax, landline or email. This gives you:

• Unparalleled history records for Performance Improvement programs
• Reports that conform to regulatory requirements
• Superior alerting capability based on smart technology – no false alarms
• Robust wireless RFID operation – even in high noise (EMI) environments
• Eliminate tedious manual recordkeeping

24/7 Monitoring
FreshLoc monitors both physical and perishable assets. For producers, distributors, transportation, wholesalers and warehouse operations, FreshLoc provides monitoring of equipment airflow and storage area hotspots. Food simulators are used in production areas for food quality and safety measures. Additionally, they are deployed in staging areas to define minimum energy and temperature requirements.

For retailers and food service industries, FreshLoc provides monitoring of both equipment and food items. Sensors are arrayed to provide early warning of equipment problems as well as food-level quality and safety monitoring.

For ready-to-eat or potentially hazardous foods, FreshLoc provides food simulators to measure actual food temperature conditions. In deli areas, food probes transmit wireless data to optimize food holding and cook-chill temperatures.

FreshLoc measures the quality and safety of perishable storage and transport in hospitals, clinics, schools, laboratories, foodservice operations--wherever temperature, humidity, or environmental logs are required for regulatory compliance.

For alerting, FreshLoc uses smart technology to ensure early warning while eliminating false alarms. Alerts are automatically prioritized according to severity and escalated to ensure proper response.

Enterprise operational information is summarized for daily or weekly performance reports and data is available continuously online.

FreshLoc monitors and alerts using multiple techniques that result in exceptional accuracy in delivering early warning while eliminating false alarms:

• Time & Temperature for raw data equipment airflow – Excellent early warning for equipment failure
• Time & Temperature for raw data food probes – Measures core temperatures of potentially hazardous foods
• Monotonic Increase (Runway Conditions) – Prioritizes catastrophic failure situation
• Mechanical Simulation for core food temperatures – Different thermal density devices emulate core temperature
• Mathematical Simulation, database simulation – Highly sensitive and database controlled to emulate temperatures of various foods types

Operations – Critical Information Flow
FreshLoc measures quality, safety and the integrity of equipment operation. Quality alerts are managed by allowing operational personnel to react on a timely basis while safety alerts are handled on a priority basis, immediately sent to cellphones, pagers and email alerts to front line personnel for immediate correction.

The FreshLoc service protects physical assets as well as perishable assets. Equipment operating out of specification is identified and notification sent first to the appropriate operations and then maintenance personnel. Unanswered alerts are escalated and redirected to insure corrective actions are taken.

All of the operational information is summarized using various performance reports and available continuously online.

Proven Reliability
FreshLoc technology has demonstrated unprecedented reliability under harsh conditions including submerged, extreme temperature and high electromagnetic interference (EMI) environments. The technology has been applied to situations ranging from food chain in-transit applications to critical medical materials handling to U.S. Navy nuclear weapons security.
FreshLoc has created a total infrastructure that permits highly efficient but low cost data management. The patented system is coupled with a turnkey service and support package and is comprised of several technology building blocks uniquely integrated for reliability:

Smart User Interface
The FreshLoc end user interface contains smart technology that reflects operational logic in its content and ease-of-use for intuitive operations and minimal personnel training.

• Network and Internet Communication Capabilities? – FreshLoc has developed patented techniques for continuous network connection, data security and communication reliability, all while using multiple Internet connection strategies.
• Software: Transactional & High Speed Database Management? – ?FreshLoc operating software handles tens of billions of instructions every day. It has the capability of maintaining a quintillion addresses and associated data for individual sensors.
• Wireless RF Sensor Technology? – ?FreshLoc's patented wireless RFStrobe technology sets a standard for wireless applications. It has superior performance in data transmission, noise resistance and low power consumption.

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