The 'Must Have' Remote Measurement Solution
GUARDIAN® from Plexus Innovation, is a well proven, IoT remote measurement solution that enables significant
business improvements.
It consists of a combination easy to use hardware devices and Dashboard, where the data is stored and managed.
All reports and alerts are user configurable and provide good practice for water services and refrigeration compliance as well as monitoring pulse, CO2 and humidity.
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The GUARDIAN® solution offers everything needed to monitor and record the condition of a range of business critical processes and assets including detection of many issues not otherwise possible, across many sectors such as:
Water and Facilities Management
Social Housing
Hospitality
Education
Healthcare
Care
Veterinary
Leisure
MEASURES AND MONITORS
GUARDIAN® measures and monitors temperature and water systems bringing business improvements to help customers meet their individual challenges.
ENHANCES BUSINESS COMPLIANCE
Monitoring real-time data, enhancing business compliance, while reducing risk, water waste, energy consumption and also relieving pressure on human time.
PREVENTS A CRISIS
GUARDIAN® identifies taps left running, water leaks, water heaters under stress and failing assets, enabling early intervention to be taken before a situation becomes a crisis.
COLD STORAGE REASSURANCE
GUARDIAN® monitors fridge temperature, providing reassurance in the storage of medication
and food.
CO2 AND HUMIDITY
Monitoring CO2 provides an indication of ventilation status. Understanding those levels enables clients to effectively manage their populated environments.
REDUCES RISK
GUARDIAN® helps to protect staff, residents and guests from risk of legionella and also reduces the risk of injury and scalding.
GUARDIAN® AT WORK
BESPOKE REPORTING AND ALERTS
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
HARDWARE PROVISION
GUARDIAN hardware is a combination of hub and nodes.
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Hub is mains powered and can communicate with up to 50 nodes when in range.
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All nodes are supplied with three
temperature sensors.
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Nodes are battery powered, with lifetime in excess of 3 years in normal operation.
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Nodes have a survey mode to enable user to check range and function within each facility prior to installation.
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Communication between nodes and hub is via LoRa private network.
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Node system can be expanded at any time and will communicate via existing hubs.
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Nodes will communicate via any in
range hub.
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DATA MANAGEMENT
Data is measured by nodes once per minute.
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Data is transferred four times per hour to the cloud based Plexus Innovation portal securely via GSM 2G/3G/4G modem.
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Data feeds include max/min temperatures and event frequency within a user defined period.
Data can be viewed either at the Plexus Innovation portal via secure user sign on, or via third party platform or users existing BMS.
Live data is available via the Plexus Innovation portal for 6 months and archived for seven years to ensure compliance audit trail.
Can handle and process data from nodes with a mixture of end applications (temperature, pressure and light) simultaneously.
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Mains powered.
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Option for solar PV and battery if used in an
off-grid location.
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TRAINING AND SUPPORT
All users are provided with access to Plexus Innovation portal.
Full user training is provided by the knowledgable team at Plexus Innovation.
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Training can be in-house at user site, remote via video conferencing or via our easy to follow 'how-to' videos.
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Once trained, users will typically survey sites and install hardware independently.
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If preferred, Plexus Innovation offer installation support which ranges from complete site set up to remote video consultation during user install process.
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Several user queries are answered in the FAQ section of the site, however the Plexus Innovation team enjoy interaction with users and is always happy to help with any
user issues.