Why Monitor?
For the majority of businesses in the food and drink industries, HACCP data collection is a mandatory requirement. The choice then is whether to implement a manual or automatic system.Kyros is the most effective automatic monitoring system available today, enabling you to meet your regulatory data collection requirements while reducing costs and resource requirements.
What is HACCP?
The HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) system is recognized as the most effective way for food businesses to ensure consumer protection. Internationally accepted as the system of choice for food safety management, it is a preventative approach to food safety based on 7 principles:
- Identify critical control points.
- Establish preventive measures with critical limits for each control point.
- Establish procedures to monitor the critical control points.
- Establish corrective actions to be taken when monitoring shows that a critical limit has not been met - for example, reprocessing or disposing of food if the minimum cooking temperature is not met.
- Establish procedures to verify that the system is working properly--for example, testing time-and-temperature recording devices to verify that a cooking unit is working properly.
- Establish effective recordkeeping to document the HACCP system.
European Directive EC No 852/2004 requires all food business operators to have in place, implement and maintain a permanent procedure based on the HACCP principles to include corrective action where critical point events breach their prescribed limits.
Around the world, food standards agencies are taking action to increase the adoption and application of HACCP in food service businesses.
In addition, the updated BS 6173 standard on Specification for installation of gas-fired catering appliances for use in all types of catering establishments may advocate that CO2 monitoring is mandatory for the override control of ventilation systems
ECONOMY - Saving Time, Money and Resources
Kyros not only reduces the cost of HACCP related monitoring, but can also enable your business to operate more efficiently.
We Save Time/Labour
Automated data collection reduces the quantity of manual measurements required, reducing the risk of human error and ensuring that accurate data is recorded at precise intervals. Wireless technology also means that installation is easy and inexpensive as there is no need for costly cabling and electrical work.
We Save Energy
Data can be analysed to check efficiency of chillers, fridges and freezers plus CO2 concentration for Internal Air Quality (IAQ). Door contact sensors can alarm to indicate when a door has been left open by mistake, prompting an immediate corrective action. Through regular monitoring, energy consumption can be greatly reduced.
We Reduce Waste
Alarm notifications such as SMS texts, visual LED message boards, pop-up windows or simple flashing lights can indicate when there is a threshold breach within a critical storage area. Action can then be taken to prevent costly spoilage. The software can be configured to validate the cooling curves of blast chillers and freezers and notify you if conditions are not met.
We Eliminate Paper Storage
All the data is stored electronically, hence Kyros reports can be created automatically from the database, and viewed directly on either a local computer or networked server. Specific information can then be printed off or exported to a spreadsheet, as required.
We Cut Equipment Downtime
Since Kyros provides continuous temperature monitoring for example, the data report can show trends in the efficiency of cold storage areas. This information can then be used to optimize servicing intervals, ensuring maximum equipment efficiency and minimal downtime.
FLEXIBILITY - to Perform in a Variety of Operating Environment
Kyros uses wireless transmitters to send data from critical data points. By positioning RF sensors on or near the relevant equipment, measurements are transmitted to a base station module connected to a networked computer. Data transmission intervals can be set as frequently as every 60 seconds. Transmitters are available with internal or external temperature sensors, which can be supplied with or without product simulants covering the range -200 up to 500°C. Door sensors are available to monitor door open frequency and can also create an alarm if a door is left open too long.
Two alarm threshold levels can be set for upper and lower limits for each sensor enabling a pre-alarm condition to be enabled thus reducing the risk of any product reaching its spoiling point.
Kyros offers a scalable solution to fit your needs.
RELIABILITY – proven technology you can trust*
A 12 Month Warranty is offered on all Digitron-supplied hardware and software to the original purchaser. Excluded from the warranty are any faults caused by accidental or malicious damage to components and any consumable parts such as batteries.
Robust Technology
The RF transmitters broadcast at 868-915 Mhz, and having no LCD they are able to operate in low temperature environments for sustained periods, powered by an internal Lithium Chloride long life cell. Signal repeaters can be positioned at optimal locations to extend the RF coverage and communication distance to the base station modules. To prevent loss of data due to a power failure or network breakdown base station modules can be fitted with an optional buffer memory and UPS .Signal repeaters are supplied complete with an integrated back up power supply. Once power supplies are resumed then stored data is automatically transferred to the software database.
When an alert condition occurs, the Kyros software identifies the precise location and length of time the sensor has been in an alert state enabling corrective action to take place and a log of the incident to be recorded. Alarm methods are bespoke for each system and can consist of LED message boards, pop up messaging, emails, SMS text messages, fax or simple visual or audible warnings.
System Support
Our Support team is available on the telephone to provide help and advice throughout the day. In addition, technical issues can be raised online via our secure remote access tool, which enables us to login to your system anywhere in the world to diagnose and resolve problems quickly and efficiently.
If the need arises, our engineers can visit your site to undertake any necessary servicing or product upgrades.
Full on-site training in the use of Kyros is delivered at the time of commissioning, and comprehensive manuals are provided for those customers who wish to install the system themselves.
We recommend a system calibration check every 12 months, which can be carried out on-site by our technicians.