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.