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Smarter Freezer Monitoring: A Data-Driven Approach to Sustainability and Lab Efficiency

A Growing Challenge for Biopharma Labs Biopharma laboratories depend heavily on ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers to preserve critical research materials. However, these indispensable assets come with challenges that are often overlooked. ULT freezers can consume 8-33 kWh of energy per day and place an additional burden on heating and ventilation systems. The combined energy footprint […]

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Case Study: Unlocking $3.8M in Savings Through Asset Utilization Optimization

Overview In the competitive world of biotech, research and development (R&D) efforts require significant investments in equipment, infrastructure, and technology. For one leading biotech company headquartered in Boston, these investments were growing fast. The lack of visibility into how their assets were utilized led to inefficient spending, unnecessary purchases, and wasted capital. However, with the […]

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WattIQ Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

WattIQ is excited to announce that it has successfully attained its SOC 2 Type 2 compliance certification for the latest WattIQ enterprise software through an audit performed by an independent CPA firm. We understand how important data security and compliance are to our clients (customers) and we are proud of our team’s efforts to meet […]

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‘Vampire Energy’ Is Sucking the Life out of Our Planet

https://www.wired.com/story/vampire-energy-climate-environment-earth-day/ This Earth Day, it’s time to tackle a sneaky source of waste that drains wallets and accelerates climate change. UNTIL RECENTLY, I thought vampires—creatures of the night that suck the life from their victims—existed only in the fictional realms of literature and TV. That’s until I learned about a real-life scenario draining both our wallets and the planet: vampire […]

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Strategic Role For Procurement in the Path to Net Zero

https://www.sdcexec.com/sourcing-procurement/article/22158852/wattiq-strategic-role-for-procurement-in-the-path-to-net-zero   While the efforts to minimize emissions are bigger than one person, procurement leaders have a unique opportunity to influence the impact of their organizations on the environment on a large scale. The pressure to limit our carbon footprint has become a competitive differentiator for modern organizations. Sustainability, no longer is a “nice-to-have,” as […]

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The Next Frontier in Lab Asset Performance Management

https://medhealthoutlook.com/the-next-frontier-in-lab-asset-performance-management/   Large or small, diagnostics or research, health care or life sciences –today’s labs balance responsibilities that straddle support for patient outcomes, speed of research, operational efficiency, cost control – and increasingly, environmental impacts. Early attempts at modernizing these functions implemented software solutions to manage the procurement and maintenance of assets, followed by asset […]

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As COVID-19 Vaccine is Deployed, WattIQ Launches Predictive Lab Freezer Monitoring Solution

WattIQ, maker of enterprise-grade device monitoring technology for the life sciences industry, today announced the commercial availability of a new solution to monitor the condition of freezers and refrigerators.

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WattIQ Announces Vendor Agnostic Freezer Condition Monitoring Solution

What if your laboratory freezer monitoring solution could tell you the temperature as well as the condition of your freezer to alert you of potential device failures?

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The Power of Data

Transitioning from a linear economy to a circular economy is going to require us to tackle the problems of over consumption and waste. With so much waste, we should be able to reduce consumption without adversely affecting productivity. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to find the data needed to move from a want to a needs based consumption.

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Make Your IoT Launch A Success With These 16 Steps

Ensure that the business impact can be clearly demonstrated in the pilot phase, which has to be simple to deploy in itself. Far too many IoT projects fail from the sheer complexity of the solution.

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Back to work

As the life sciences world begins facing new challenges of getting people back to work while adjusting to shifting stop gap measures to align with social distancing and lock-downs, the one size fits all approach just has not worked.

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Deploying power monitoring for asset utilization in a lab

Labs have many different environments that can affect deployment; Clean Rooms, Freezer Farms, Bench top clusters, and so on, all with varying levels of RF interference and accessibility to power that can impact the performance and maintenance of your IoT deployment.