Continuously monitoring water temperatures will improve ACoP L8 Legionella compliance in healthcare environments, immediately highlighting exceptions, and providing data upon which informed decisions can be made on how to manage these systems.
To do so manually, however, is ‘inefficient and expensive’. So says Minimise Water. Its new Compliance Online system provided this continuous, granular water temperature monitoring ‘without the associated cost or need for additional manpower’ – using ‘technologically advanced hardware and software’ to collect temperature data, and report it back in real time to an easily-accessed, cloud-based dashboard.
‘Non-intrusive’ temperature probes are at the monitoring site(s) send data by wireless Radio Frequency to a communications ‘gateway’, where it is collated into an ‘easy-to-read reporting dashboard’. The system allows those responsible for water monitoring and compliance to review multiple sites from their desktop.
Key claimed benefits include:
- Continuous temperature data highlights exceptions immediately.
- Up to 100 probes can link to each ‘gateway’, facilitating multi-site remote monitoring.
- Reduces manpower costs, while improving monitoring capability.
- All reports are captured in an ACoP L8-compliant electronic log book.
- Low maintenance, long life probe batteries with a 10-year lifespan.
- Exceptions are clearly visible on the dashboard; when safeguard thresholds are exceeded, the system can be set to trigger an SMS or email alert.
