Everything a site needs, in one box

One supplier for the whole chain: the unit the site's systems run on, the managed connection they report over, and every cable and adapter in between. Specified against the instruments actually on that bench, and looked after from a distance once it is in.

Book a Demo What is in it

The Hardware Kit cabinet mounted on a laboratory wall beside an analyser and a workstation, with conduit running to the bench

Where the systems run

400 × 300 × 200 mm

500 × 400 × 210 mm

600 × 500 × 250 mm

Mini PC, 4 cores, 16-32 GB

512 GB to 1 TB SSD

Backup power, sized on load

At the instrument

FTDI USB-RS232-WE

StarTech ICUSB232V2

Silicon Labs CP2102

Null-modem DB9

Straight-through DB9

DB25 adapters

When one cable will not reach

PUSR USR-N510, one port

MOXA NPort 5110, one port

MOXA NPort 5450, four

Serial to Wi-Fi bridge

Cat6 to the switch

Labelling and scanning

Specimen label printer

Wristband printer

Handheld scanner, corded

Handheld scanner, cordless

Cryo and ambient label stock

Thermal transfer ribbon

Managed connectivity

Teltonika RUT200

Teltonika RUT951, dual SIM

GL.iNet GL-X750V2

External SMA antennas

Managed DC switch

The unit

What is behind the door.

A lockable steel cabinet on the wall, holding the compute, the switch and the backup power on a removable mounting plate, with mains separated from data and every output protected on its own way in.

The cabinet open on a laboratory wall, showing the mini PC and switch on the top shelf, protection devices on the DIN rail below, and the batteries at the bottom — Compute and switch on the top shelf, protection on the rail, batteries at the bottom. The stamp reads in reverse on the inside of the door, which is how it is made.

A serial to Ethernet converter mounted on the wall beside an analyser, with a serial cable to the instrument and network cable to the trunking — The other end of it: a serial converter beside the analyser, putting an instrument older than the network onto the network

What arrives

Down to the wall plugs.

Cabinet, compute, router, switch, serial gateways, the cables between them, and the brackets, glands, fixings and ties it takes to mount the lot. What ships is set by the site survey, not by a catalogue page.

The Hardware Kit laid out: the cabinet, a mini PC, a cellular router, a network switch, four-port and single-port serial gateways, a serial to Wi-Fi adapter, network and serial cables, a power adapter, mounting brackets, screws, wall plugs, cable glands and ties

The problem

The last three metres are where deployments stall

The software is ready and the analyser is willing, and the project waits a month for a cable. Somebody orders a counterfeit adapter that drops the connection intermittently, an instrument turns out to need a null-modem rather than a straight-through, and the facility has no line to report over anyway. None of it is difficult. It is just nobody's job.

A deployment held up by a part worth twenty dollars

Counterfeit adapters that fail intermittently and cost weeks to diagnose

Sites that cannot report at all because there is no connection to use

What it does

Somewhere for the systems to live.

A wall-mounted unit with its own battery, carrying the site through an outage instead of stopping with it. It replaces installing software onto whichever desktop happened to be free.

Managed connectivity, included. A connection of the site's own for national reporting, with the data included and the unit managed centrally, so the reporting never waited on somebody's airtime.
The parts between instrument and system. Adapters, serial device servers and the right cable for each analyser, specified against the instrument rather than guessed at.
Looked after from where you are. Every unit reports its power, signal and state, and is updated and diagnosed remotely, so a fault rarely becomes a journey.

Installed at the facility

Mains out, still up

Power12 hours held in reserve

ComputingRuns the site's systems locally

ConnectivityManaged, with the data included

To the networkJoins whatever the site already has

To the benchSerial and device servers, per instrument

Lockable steel · ventilated · dust filtered

How it works

It arrives built, it goes on the wall, it is looked after from where you are.

STEP 1

We look at what is on the bench

Each analyser has its own answer: some take a network cable, some a USB adapter, some need a device server in the room. The list comes from the instruments, not from a catalogue.

STEP 2

It arrives built and specified

One configured delivery, installed and commissioned, wired to the instruments already there and joined to whatever network the site has.

STEP 3

It is managed from a distance

Power, signal and system state report continuously, and updates and fixes are pushed centrally rather than driven to.

Connection includedSerial and network to instrumentsLockable steel enclosure

What is in it

The parts, named.

Specified against the instruments on the bench. An analyser from 2009 and one from last year need different answers, and the list comes from the machines rather than from a catalogue.

Where the systems run

Everything else in the kit plugs into this. A lockable steel cabinet holding the compute, the networking and the backup power, wired to protected terminals and mounted on the wall, so Automation and the site's own record carry on through an outage instead of stopping with it.

400 × 300 × 200 mm500 × 400 × 210 mm600 × 500 × 250 mmMini PC, 4 cores, 16-32 GB512 GB to 1 TB SSDBackup power, sized on load

At the instrument

Older analysers speak serial and expect a cable. Which cable depends on whether the instrument is wired as DTE or DCE, which is why this is specified rather than assumed.

FTDI USB-RS232-WEStarTech ICUSB232V2Silicon Labs CP2102Null-modem DB9Straight-through DB9DB25 adapters

When one cable will not reach

A device server puts an instrument's serial port on the network, so several analysers in one room reach the system without a host beside each of them.

PUSR USR-N510, one portMOXA NPort 5110, one portMOXA NPort 5450, fourSerial to Wi-Fi bridgeCat6 to the switch

Labelling and scanning

A sample that is not labelled at the point of collection gets labelled later, from memory, which is where mix-ups start. The kit supplies the printer at the bench, the scanner at each station it passes, and the stock that survives a freezer.

Specimen label printerWristband printerHandheld scanner, cordedHandheld scanner, cordlessCryo and ambient label stockThermal transfer ribbon

Managed connectivity

A line of the site's own for national reporting, with the data included, whitelisted to the systems that matter and managed centrally. For facilities whose own connection is unreliable, or absent.

Teltonika RUT200Teltonika RUT951, dual SIMGL.iNet GL-X750V2External SMA antennasManaged DC switch

We do not fit counterfeit PL2303 adapters. They drop the connection intermittently, which reaches you as an instrument that randomly stops sending results, and costs more in support than the part ever saved.

Talk to us about the Hardware Kit.

We deploy on-premises or in the cloud. Our team will walk you through a live instance scoped to your organisation.

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