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Nanotech research institution goes with Accsense

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Accsense Inc.'s environment monitoring solution is now making critical measurements with its industry-first turnkey wireless sensor product at the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Nanofabrication Facility.

Accsense Inc.'s environment monitoring solution is now making critical measurements with its industry-first turnkey wireless sensor product at the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Nanofabrication Facility.
The system measures a wide range of physical properties such as temperature and humidity and makes real-time measurements available online from any computer or web-enabled device. No software installation or complex configuration is required.

In its stage-one deployment, the Nanofabrication Facility is using the solution to verify that temperature and humidity are kept within range in its new, 12,700 square-foot nanotech clean room. Controlling the environment within this clean room is critical to the cutting-edge research work being conducted there, including semiconductor-based device fabrication and thin-film processing work. The system was installed in March 2006.

Accsense will soon have a second installation at UCSB where it will play a critical role in keeping the facility operational around the clock. In addition to monitoring the environment in the lab, the Accsense solution will monitor systems critical to clean room operation. Accsense sensor Pods will monitor and make status information available on the web in real time on the nanotech lab's programmable logic controllers (PLCs), chilled water, deionised (DI) water, air pressure, reverse osmosis and other critical systems. Should any of these systems falter at any hour of the day or night, UCSB's on-call technicians will be paged by the Accsense system.

A world-leading nanotechnology research institution and part of the US National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, the UCSB Nanofabrication facility selected the Accsense solution for its versatility and ease of deployment.

"We believe the Accsense product line has particular utility for clean room environments including those in the biotech, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and nanotechnology industries," said Tobin Greensweig, Product Manager for Accsense "The ability to quickly deploy an accurate and dependable system to verify that all systems are functioning properly is key for clean rooms of every scale, from UCSB's state-of-the-art facility to smaller clean rooms that don't have control systems quite as complex," he added.

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