Tele Administration of Remote Labs

IoT based solution for data extraction, analysis and remote management of bio-reactors on site

Leading Healthcare Lab Product Supplier

Challenge

  • Customer needs to make cell culture bioprocessing most efficient, scalable and affordable.
  • In person requirements at the bioreactors within labs affected the number of requests processed.
  • Pandemic caused an increase in volume of requests.
  • Availability of workforce was limited during pandemic.
  • Aggregated transactional reports across hundreds of labs across country was a mundane task.

Solution

  • Dimiour assessed the lab environments with bioreactors, PLC and Scada based automation.
  • Leveraged AWS IoT and cloud infrastructure to integrate and extract data from labs.
  • Provisioned remote operational control of bioreactors by real time integrations using OPC-UA protocol from cloud based administrative apps.
  • Onboarded lab technicians to review and act remotely authenticated with central IAM solution.

Technologies

Benefits

  • Technicians were able to work remotely to monitor and operate on devices.
  • In person requirements in lab was cut down to 20%.
  • Processing capacity increased since round the clock monitoring and remote management was easier.
  • Centralized data collection helped in easy aggregation of all usage data and metrics for consolidated reporting and decision making.