Hygiene & safety, air quality, environment monitoring, IAQ sensors

OMRON showcases RIPPLES IOT solutions

April 29, 2019Midhun MenonAir quality sensors, IOT solutions

OMRON- The global component giant

Omron Corporation is generally considered to a pioneer and global leader in industrial component manufacturing and advanced sensing technologies. They are into numerous industries such as automotive, AI, energy, healthcare, electronics, and manufacturing. For history buffs, OMRON developed the first ever electronic ticket gate and ATM’s with magnetic card readers.

Ripples IOT has been associated with OMRON for more than a couple of years now. Our wireless environment & air quality monitoring solutions are powered by high quality and precise OMRON sensors. Studies have shown that lower air quality can hamper workforce productivity. Ripples air quality monitoring module keep track of Particulate Matter (PM) levels inside a building. The module also keeps a close eye on varying temperature & humidity levels inside critical areas of a building. Live alerts are passed on via thresholds set in a visualization tool.

The Ripples air quality environment monitoring device has proven to be a gem in easing our health standards accreditation inspection process. – Dr. YLR, Shekar Eye Hospital, Bengaluru, India

Ripples at OMRON Distributor Meet

Omron India team had requested to showcase our solutions at their distributor meet to be held at Mysore on 24th and 25th April 2019. The idea was to familiarize Omron family members with the innovative solutions developed with their sensors. Our team quickly deployed a demo kit for the event and shipped to Omron office in Bengaluru. One of the major advantages of using Ripples IOT solutions is that any non-technical person can easily assemble and deploy with the help of simple documentation.

The solutions were showcased at the event and attracted a lot of eyeballs. Many liked the fact that we were providing full-stack solutions including a visualization instance and not just the hardware. There were a lot of positive responses from the distributors.

Here are some of the photos from the event

Monitoring as a service

December 7, 2018ripplesiotAir quality sensors, IOT in factories, IOT in logistics, IOT solutionsCellular IOT, cold chain monitoring, IOT cold chain, remote monitoring service, supply chain monitoring

Supply chain monitoring solution

Your business in Asia Pacific region or South Africa or Spain could be about managing transport logistics in supply / cold chain ; monitoring temperature, humidity and relative humidity of high value medicines. Or about running a manufacturing unit where the equipment on production floor need to be condition monitored at regular intervals.

Ripples IOT solutions are now available as a service and the technology offering comprises of industrial grade IOT devices, cloud hosting, reporting analytics, push message alerts and a software API to connect to your existing network.

Which means that you no longer need to purchase the hardware or software components or worry about installing repeaters across the country to track status and location of high value goods across the nation.

Benefits of cold chain monitoring as service

Starts from as low as SGD $18 a month per container or truck **
Always available monitoring service with no intervention
Opex vs Capex. Claim financial expenses on rental charges
No upfront investment on hardware components or software tools
Country wide coverage to monitor cold chain parameters
No annual maintenance charges for the hardware
No need to purchase cloud hosting or software
No worries about device breakdowns or warranty
Battery life of 2 years and data transmission every hour
Peace of mind guaranteed in cold chain monitoring

Cold chain monitoring as a service

The areas that will play a prominent role in the future supply chain, as it’s impacted by IoT, is in-transit and cold chain visibility. The logistics ecosystem has many players, and thus, many moving parts, according to In- bound logistics. Products are handled and transferred between the manufacturer, suppliers, the distribution center, retailer and customer.

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Factory equipment monitoring as a service

Regular monitoring of critical plant and machinery would play a huge role in ensuring uptime in a production environment. Parameters such as temperature, humidity and vibration can be monitored at periodic intervals ; thus prevents failures through early warnings.

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IOT service for monitoring good and assets

Our offices are located at level 6, the Hive, Vanguard Campus, Singapore and the IOT solutions and consultancy are available to those businesses aspiring to adopt new technologies for competitive advantage.

** Plus local levies and SIM activation charges. The offer is valid only in selected countries

Air quality & PM

October 27, 2018ripplesiotAir quality sensors, Data visualisation, IOT solutions

Why air quality monitoring is important

Particulate Matter, abbreviated as ‘PM’, is a mixture of airborne solid particles and liquid droplets that can be inhaled by human beings, and may cause serious health problems in industrial zones. PM includes particles with different characteristics – i.e. shape, optical properties, dimension and chemical composition – but it is mostly divided into finer categories based on the particle size information.

Now a days, different PM categories are usually reported under the common nomenclature of PMx, where ‘x’ defines the maximum particle diameter in the airborne particle mixture or ‘aerosol’. As an example, PM2.5 defines inhalable particles with a diameter of generally 2.5 micrometers (hospital hygiene as an example) and smaller, PM10 particles with a diameter of 10 micrometers and smaller, and so forth for other applications.

Ripples IOT provides wireless environment monitoring solutions based on high precision air quality dust sensor capable of detecting 0.5µm particles. Compared to other vendor models, our solutions have the capability to intake and analyse greater air volume, providing more consistent and accurate results for environment air quality monitoring.

Where air quality & PM matters

The specific PM categories of PM10 and PM2.5 have been historically identified by governments in developed nations as important monitoring levels to assess the quality of the air we breathe in industrial and domestic zones. PM10 particles irritate exposed mucous such as the eyes and throat and PM2.5 particles travel all the way through the lungs into the pulmonary alveoli (the basic unit of mammal ventilation).

New categories like PM1.0 and PM4.0 are also finding their way into indoor air quality monitoring devices as these new outputs provide additional information to the traditional PM10 and PM2.5 levels, enabling a better particle pollution analysis in manufacturing shop floor, warehouses, public health zones etc and the development of new air quality device specific actions based on the detected aerosol type (e.g. industrial dust vs. kitchen smoke).

The common definition of PM includes particles that are no smaller than 100 nanometers in size. Particles smaller than 100 nm are instead reported as ‘ultrafine particles’ or ‘UFPs’ and are not covered in this article. Within the above-mentioned PM definition, which thus includes particles from 0.1 to 10 micrometers in size, the smaller the particles are, the deeper they can penetrate through our respiratory system and into our bloodstream, posing a higher hazard to our health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that airborne particulate matter as a Group 1 carcinogen and as the biggest environmental risk to health facing humanity now, with responsibility for about 1 in every 9 deaths annually.

RipplesIOT provides easy to deploy, mesh technology enabled air quality monitoring sensors and data visualisation and alert tools which can be deployed in factory shop floors, warehouses, offices, hospitals and public utility buildings.