Overview

The CC Air Solution

Commerce-Connections offer a practical solution designed to meet strict regulatory compliance requirements for the cold chain, for example pharmaceutical goods, consumables plus numerous other products and environments, such as hotels, supermarkets and hospitals where temperature monitoring is essential.

Our bespoke user-friendly interface is concise, clear and consistent throughout. The user is able to set alerts and designate on who receives them. The software ensures standards in which electronic files are considered equivalent to paper records, saving time and effort.

Furthermore, our service eliminates manual recording errors combined with multiple alert types. Both devices work via RF (radio frequency) and accuracy has been calibrated to 0.1°C compared to a standard thermometer at 0.5°C.

Key Features and Benefits

• Continuous monitoring of temperature and humidity
• Ability to integrate the data into any organisation’s back-end system
  
• Access to the interface from anywhere in the world via the cloud
• Fully bespoke interface with added options
• Detailed visualisation of data
• Historic records stored for future analysis and comparison
• Custom alerts for specified temperature and/or humidity triggers
• Life-time factory-calibrated on all devices
• Temperature range: -30°C to 70°C (can be significantly extended)
• Life-time warranty promise on all devices
  

CC Air Hardware

Smart Sensors – Ongoing real-time monitoring of temperature and humidity
Smart Loggers – Continuous recording of temperature and humidity during long-haul transit

Industry

Commerce-Connections Ltd has designed a simple, easy-to-install wireless sensor solution for a wide variety of applications. Whether you are a small to medium size business or a large corporation, our CC Air service can help to monitor your facility, increase your operating efficiencies, improve and maintain high quality and help manage and protect your assets.

Care Homes

Reduce staff workload while ensuring safety 24/7 monitoring in all areas within a care home facility Ability to monitor multiple care homes

Supermarkets face the task of accurately monitoring refrigeration and freezer temperatures. This is vital for the safety of the food-buying public. Historically, supermarkets have relied on staff to read temperature probes manually, leading to the possibility for human error and time consuming. This, in turn, can lead to large amounts of food wasted with the obvious increase in costs.

Food poisoning organisms can multiply quickly in foods such as meat, fish, poultry, rice, milk, cream and eggs (these are called high-risk foods). It is paramount that all food in supermarkets is kept at the right temperature. Consumers of supermarkets have been made ill when food has not been stored correctly. Legally frozen food must be maintained and stored in line with the manufacturer's instructions.

Commerce-Connections has developed a system which can monitor and analyse temperature across the large fixed refrigerators and freezers used in store. Our wireless Smart sensors transmit every 5 minutes ensuring constant awareness of any changes complemented with our user-friendly monitoring interface. An alert can be sent to the store manager as well as an engineer if and whenever it is triggered.

Our service drives quality throughout a store environment and at the same time eases the process of following the below regulations:

• Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 Hygiene of foodstuffs

• The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (Schedule 4)

Measuring and monitoring of temperature is paramount in all areas of a care home. From food storage and climate monitoring to infection control and regular checking of water temperature.

Fighting Infection

The HSA (Health Saving Association) in the UK classifies elderly people as a high-risk group. Legislation has changed recently, so even the smaller care homes need to keep constant safety checks and ensure there is an adequate risk assessment in place including temperature control.

Climate change is already affecting the spread of infectious diseases throughout the world, as an example in human health, there is a direct risk from water pathogens which can lead to dengue fever, malaria, cholera and, increasingly in the UK, Legionnaires disease. All are linked to warmer temperatures. Within a care home environment with potential restrictions of movement for the elderly in a confined area it is imperative that the temperature does not become too warm.

Our Smart temperature sensors can be used for running water and pipe surfaces as well as environment monitoring – a popular choice for caretakers or building engineers who often bear the brunt of testing and the care home paying for a call-out or service check-up.

Food Safety

The health and age of residents obviously makes them more vulnerable to hazards like food-born bacteria which can be prevented by storing and cooking foods at safe temperatures. There is the ‘danger zone’ of food safety, when in storage cold food should not go beyond the temperature of 4.0°C and hot food should never be lower than 60°C.

There is the very important matter of accuracy. For example, the storage temperature of chilled food is especially critical, so food thermometers should have an accuracy of +/- 0.5°C. Our smart temperature sensors are life-time calibrated to even +/- 0.2°C. Not only are the sensors more accurate they are also automated, compared to manually recorded thermometer readings, which could lead to human error and would have to be calibrated on a regular basis.

Record Keeping

Another factor to take into consideration is what to do with a temperature once it has been taken. In recent years, European legislation has demanded regular food temperature recording. Taking accurate temperatures alone is not enough - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) food safety regulations require enhanced due diligence on the recording of results at every stage.

In legionella testing, the sheer number of water points and outlets even in an average-sized building is only matched by the volume of records required to monitor them. All this can be a logistical nightmare for managers resulting in trolling through mountains of paper, which is why many are turning to paperless systems that have the added bonus of reducing the risk of human error.

Cold Chain/Food Transport

Complete traceability throughout a produce journey Temperature breaches flagged up instantly with real-time CC Air alarms Fully automated system

From the Frozen to the Fragile

Food is being transported over longer distances, from producer to consumer; this distance is often measured by ‘food miles’. In the UK, comparatively little of the food we consume comes from local producers; much will have been transported over great distances. There is a need to consider the environmental conditions that the goods will endure during transit. Will the goods go through high-humidity zones or extreme low temperature zones for example?

Temperature breaches in the cold chain need to be flagged up quickly and reliably. Our efficient and user-friendly data loggers and Smart sensors help to ensure accurate and effective cold chain management.

Commerce-Connections offers a chance to validate products at the point of use and while in transit, which will show clearly and unmistakably whether a product has been adversely affected by a temperature breach.

Our complete monitoring service introduces accountability measures into the shipping and handling stages of the temperature-sensitive cold chain. By providing prominent visual notification to shipping personnel of the presence of monitoring equipment, alarms and historical records encourage proper handling and transport of temperature-sensitive products.

Wine

Captures temperature & humidity 24/7 Can monitor immense vineyards and wine cellars Alerts whenever temperatures exceed pre-set criteria or the fluctuation is too rapid

Temperature is the crucial variable for wine makers and collectors. It is likely that relatively few wines are spoiled by low humidity, but many are ruined through storage at high and/or variable temperature and humidity levels. The rate of chemical reactions within wine increases as the temperature increases, which encourage the loss of alcohol and aroma and flavour compounds due to volatilisation. Low temperatures will result in a poor extraction of colour and tannins in red wines and can also cause sluggish fermentations and the production of high levels of ethyl acetate. High levels of humidity are damaging to labels and packaging and can lead to the drying out of the cork.

Our CC Air service monitors temperature and humidity quickly, easily and cost-effectively. CC Air offers precise temperature monitoring features focused on quality control: detailed time/temperature histories, highlighted events above or below specified temperature ranges, and full documentation. CC Air secures winemakers with sustainable management & monitoring practice on quality improvement and cost decrease for energy usage.

Pharmaceuticals

Track 24/7 from manufacturing to delivery Real-time alarm alerts Life-time calibrate to accuracy of 0.1 -/+° C

Pharmaceutical temperature monitoring guidelines issued by the FDA (North America) and MHRA (UK) dictate that controlled drugs and vaccines stored in pharmacy fridges must meet benchmarks that deliver maximum efficacy and shelf-life. In addition, pharmacy fridge temperature monitoring systems are subject to regular audits for compliance to these guidelines as an integral part of the regulatory process.

To meet such strict protocols a comprehensive regime of pharmacy temperature monitoring and accurate record-keeping is the basis of the compliance strategy for any facility storing controlled drugs and vaccines. Manual pharmacy temperature monitoring at the level of detail needed is time-consuming, a poor use of highly-qualified resources and lacks the essential accuracy.

Commerce-Connections' web-based radio frequency temperature monitoring systems deliver accuracy, regulatory compliance and totally absolute audit trails to global customers in pharmacy or those who specialise in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Using web-based technology, data and records are securely accessible 24/7 anywhere in the world on any device running on a web-browser or an app.

Restaurants

Easy to prove audits Ensuring food quality Trigger alerts if temperature falls out of range

For restaurants and food service providers, the quality, freshness and safety of the food they serve is of the highest importance. Increasingly complex menus, vast numbers of food service suppliers from domestic and international locations and new government regulations are making it ever more critical to ensure that fresh, frozen and processed foods have been stored and cooked properly. Fresh produce could sit on restaurant surfaces and corridors before being attended to by staff within a busy kitchen and experience high temperatures that can reduce quality and potentially lead to increased risks of harmful bacteria.

Commerce-Connections offers the ability to track produce from transport to delivery consistently through our data loggers and Smart sensors, both devices operate on the same system. This prevents staff from falsifying information and preparation for unexpected visits from food inspectors is not as time consuming. In addition, uncompromised audit trails are instantly available.

The CC Air service simplifies keeping to regulations such as:

Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the hygiene of foodstuffs

The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (Schedule 4)

Supermarkets

Easy to install for no extensive training Reduces cost, time and human error 24/7 real-time monitoring service

Supermarkets face the task of accurately monitoring refrigeration and freezer temperatures. This is vital for the safety of the food-buying public. Historically, supermarkets have relied on staff to read temperature probes manually, leading to the possibility for human error and time consuming. This, in turn, can lead to large amounts of food wasted with the obvious increase in costs.

Food poisoning organisms can multiply quickly in foods such as meat, fish, poultry, rice, milk, cream and eggs (these are called high-risk foods). It is paramount that all food in supermarkets is kept at the right temperature. Consumers of supermarkets have been made ill when food has not been stored correctly. Legally frozen food must be maintained and stored in line with the manufacturer's instructions.

Commerce-Connections has developed a system which can monitor and analyse temperature across the large fixed refrigerators and freezers used in store. Our wireless Smart sensors transmit every 5 minutes ensuring constant awareness of any changes complemented with our user-friendly monitoring interface. An alert can be sent to the store manager as well as an engineer if and whenever it is triggered.

Our service drives quality throughout a store environment and at the same time eases the process of following the below regulations:

• Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 Hygiene of foodstuffs

• The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (Schedule 4)

Legionella Compliance

Active monitoring 365 days a year Able to use in a variety of environments Alerts appropriate personnel immediately

Legionnaires’ disease occurs as a result of infections caused by the legionellaceae family of bacteria.

It is a form of pneumonia which results in around 250 identified cases a year and can prove fatal, especially to the elderly or those prone to respiratory problems or with impaired immune systems.

Legionnaires’ disease is contracted by inhaling small droplets of water suspended in air which contain the legionella bacterium.

Legionella bacteria occur naturally in surface water and soils etc but can also proliferate within man-made environments such as cooling towers, swimming pools, domestic hot-water systems and showers, ice making machine, refrigerated cabinets, whirlpool spas, hot springs, fountains, dental equipment, industrial coolants and many more.

Proliferation of the bacteria typically occurs between 20°C - 45°C and is assisted by the presence of suitable nutrients present in dirt, sludge and scale as well as conditions of poor water flow and stagnation occurring in water systems.

In the UK employers are required to control the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria in accordance with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations. This is achieved by following the Approved Code of Practice (ACoP) L8 the Control of Legionella (Bacteria in Water Systems) and in general these require the employer to conduct the following:

• Identification & assessment of the legionella risk
• Prevention or minimisation of risk from exposure to legionella
• Systems for the management and selection, training and competence of personnel
• Record keeping of maintenance, cleaning and disinfection of legionella

Whether you run a commercial office, school or are a manufacturer, monitoring water usage is becoming more important every day, especially with the growing strain on our waterways and changeable weather patterns.

By collecting temperature information regularly to monitor water tank temperatures you can be assured your tank’s environment will not be storing any problems. With configurable temperature settings our Smart sensor service will monitor water temperature to confirm it is kept within guidelines.

Embedded alerts will also tell you of any drifts in temperature, so you can keep on top of the situation and maintain a healthy water environment. Alerts can be sent by email to appropriate personnel.