HOW IT WORKS

Sudden freezer failures are a fact of life in the Life Sciences world, but they don’t need to be. Traditional monitoring systems based on temperature set point alarms are not predictive in nature, nor do they tell you that the problem started months ago when repairs are most affordable—they report after the problem has already occurred.

TRAXX/EKG™ goes beyond and monitors the temperature, energy consumption, and door activity of each freezer—elevating your position from Fail-and-Fix™ to Predict-and-Prevent™.

TRAXX analytics are constantly surveying the data coming out of your freezers and looking for changes from minute-to-minute, day-to-day, and month-to-month, providing actionable intelligence through analytics and predicting failures before they happen.

TRAXX System Hardware  Accommodates Flexible Implementations

PiPer™

Wall-powered mote, Raspberry PI running TRAXX firmware.

No battery, line power only

PiPer™ XS

Same as PiPer with serial port and onboard ambient and RH sensors.

Line power with 3-hour battery backup

Blackbird™ X

Battery-powered mote with advanced AP management.

Battery powered: 1 year (nominal) 

How TRAXX Monitoring Packages Stacks Up Against Competition

Pulse

1

Data Stream
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Yes
  • Wi-Fi Management
  • Energy Management
  • Repair Management: logging only
  • No Trending Tags
  • No Predictive Analytics

Common Applications:

Pump, motor, water bath, etc.

Pulse Plus

2

Data Streams
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Yes
  • Wi-Fi Management
  • Energy Management
  • Repair Management: logging only
  • No Trending Tags
  • No Predictive Analytics

Common Applications:

General refrigerators, incubators, LN2 cryo, etc. 

Labs

3-4

Data Streams
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Yes
  • Wi-Fi Management
  • Energy Management
  • Repair Management: logging only
  • Trending Tags: Yes
  • No Predictive Analytics

Common Applications:

Critical lab refrigerators and freezers, incubators, etc.

EKG

3-4 

Data Streams
MOST POPULAR
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Yes
  • Wi-Fi Management
  • Energy Management
  • Repair Management:
    Yes
  • Trending Tags: Yes
  • Predictive Analytics: Yes

Common Applications:

Ultra-low temperature freezers (-40, -70 and -80), etc. 

Rooms

Custom

Data Streams
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Yes
  • Wi-Fi Management
  • Energy Management
  • Repair Management: Yes
  • Trending Tags: Yes
  • Predictive Analytics: Yes

Common Applications:

Room ambient/ mapping, etc.

Competitor

1-2

Data Streams
  • Alarm Suites
  • Validation Packages: Varies
  • No Wi-Fi Management
  • No Energy Management
  • Repair Management: logging only
  • No Trending Tags
  • No Predictive Analytics

Common Applications:

Single-point monitoring (temperature or CO2, etc.)

Although TRAXX is a very good monitoring and alarm system, it is a remarkable asset intelligence tool which can detect the onset of mechanical stress and possible failure of refrigeration equipment, such as Ultra-Low Temperature freezers (ULT's), days, weeks or months before failure occurs. This is accomplished using powerful asset benchmarking techniques similar to FICO® Score used extensively in the financial and credit markets.  

Every night, TRAXX calculates a TRAXX/Score™ for thousands of customer assets, the score indicating the mechanical health and energy efficiency of each asset in comparison to the nominal performance of their peers. KLATU’s TRAXX/Cloud™ database is believed to be the largest database in the industry, containing more than 10 years and 20 billion records of freezer, refrigerator, incubator and other lab equipment performance data from dozens of manufacturers, hundreds of customers and thousands of assets deployed by KLATU.  

Protected by four international patents, TRAXX/Score analytics is built into our products. It is also licensed to many customers in support of their Digital Transformation initiatives, and to select OEMs who collectively wish to avoid unplanned down-time, product loss and excessive and unnecessary maintenance costs due to cold-chain and cold-storage equipment failures.  

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