Demand for more streamlined temperature monitoring to prevent Legionnaires’ disease featured highly at last year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition, says temperature measurement specialist, TM Electronics, which has developed a solution.
The company said: “Estates officers sought a more cost-effective response to ACoP L8 guidance on water temperature testing, citing difficulties with monitoring high level tanks, boxed-in TMVs, and calorifier flow and return pipes. Several Trusts are now using a new modular lowcost system we have developed well suited to the diversity and complexity of NHS buildings. The system combines fine wire thermocouple sensors with miniature thermocouple connection points. Multiple tests are taken quickly from a central location, delivering stable results within a 20 metre range.”
The company has ‘built in further choice’ by offering both manual and digital recording options.
