Temperature Monitoring and HACCP Handheld Inspection Systems at the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) 2009 National Conference

    WOODLAND HILLS, CA, July 06, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Green Edge Systems, Inc., a trusted leader of HACCP temperature monitoring and control and food safety solutions, state-of-the-art affordable hardware products, software and communication platforms presents the FreshLoc HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring System and the Handheld HACCP PDA Inspection at the National Association of College & University Food Services (NACUFS) 2009 National Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hilton Milwaukee City Center, 9-10 July 2009 , Booth #112

The systems help improving food safety and increasing efficiency in College, University and School Food Services.

We look forward to discussing and demonstrating to you our state-of-the-art FreshLoc HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring Food Safety System and the Temp-Taker HACCP PDA Inspection System. In case you or your representative will not be attending the conference, please contact us at (818)825-8167 or email [email protected] to set up a meeting and demonstration.

FreshLoc is the market leader in wireless temperature and HACCP monitoring for college, university and school food services, food production and delivery, and for hospitals, with over 1,000,000 measurements per day, and growing.

This is what makes FreshLoc the solution that you should select for your refrigeration and food safety monitoring in your kitchens:

• Your data is monitored from a 24/7, high security monitoring center with full back-up every few hours, geographically dispersed. The system is available 24/7 from any location; in the convenience of your home, work, and while on vacation and on the road.

• No need for a specialist to operate the systems, no software configuration and support are needed, no software or servers on site, FreshLoc does it all.

• Schools are open less then 180 days per year, and about 9 hours per day. Therefore, for more than 80% of the time, when kitchens are closed, refrigeration problems have to be addressed by an advanced temperature monitoring system that is effectively monitored remotely.

• Unlike most of the systems in the market, where you actually need to go to a computer at the campus in order to review problems, acknowledge alerts and stop escalating the alerts, FreshLoc's system is available 24/7 from anywhere. When you get the FreshLoc alert, you are only one click away from a full history of the failed equipment's monitored data, and this is available from anywhere.

• With Freshloc we closely monitor the Defrost Cycle of your freezers. This can not be done when temperatures are recorded manually, and is essential to ensure food safety. You need to have our system in place to declare that you properly monitor the temperatures in your freezers.

• FreshLoc provides alerts through e-mails and text messages, as typical in the industry, but can also provide alerts to your home phone, office phone, and any cell phone. There is no need anymore to have advanced phones by food service employees to receive alerts and pay employees for receiving text messages.

• With FreshLoc you do not need to wait for temperatures to go out of range as most systems are set for. With FreshLoc we closely monitor the operation of the compressor and refrigeration systems and when they stop operating or malfunction, we alert you instantaneously, long before the temperatures go out of range.

• With FreshLoc , every sensor serves as a back-up device or a data logger, thus ensuring that no measurement is lost. The system continues logging temperatures when the network is down or on power outages. Just put sensors in your trucks or food carts and they will be monitored as part of the same system.

• The same system monitors temperatures, humidity, door openings, dishwasher rinse temperatures, temperature of delivered food on trucks and food carts and temperatures readings while preparing food.

• FreshLoc has the most advanced reporting system in the industry. You can schedule any report automatically and get it daily, weekly, monthly or at any other interval or whenever needed from the systems. It can show readings every hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, etc. The report will provide you with full details of alerts, corrective actions and statistical data of problems occurred during the reporting period.

• Temperatures and door readings are continuously recorded, eliminating false alarms. No more false alerts on door openings that are based on random readings.

• An advanced dashboard allows you to monitor all or any part of the entire district from a single, easily operated screen. The dashboard can be organized by location, type of equipment or both.

• The FreshLoc system takes care of food safety, energy efficiency and predictive and preventive maintenance of your food services. With efficiency monitoring, FreshLoc can predict impending failure and recommend maintenance to extend the time before the next problem.

The Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection System monitors a wide variety of food safety and restaurant-sanitation items (SOP) via a digital checklist on an Internet-connected PDA device. All the data and reporting are available in real time, all the time. Eliminates the margin for error on food safety.

The Hand-Held PDA is a powerful web-based tool for managing HACCP and inspection programs for large food service organizations. Combining the best handheld technology, temperature data acquisition, and .NETweb-based software, automates the monitoring of quality risk factors while dramatically lowering the potential for human error.


Highlights of the Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA:


• Inputs temperature probe data directly into the PDA

• Ensures checkpoints are actually visited through audit reports.

• Promps with corrective actions whenever a critical limit is exceeded.

• Manages multi-step processes such as cooling.

• Makes reports instantly available via web-browser.

• Ensure critical food handling procedures are followed via automated checklists, action prompts, and audit trails.

• Streamline regulatory, reporting with paperless data capture.

• Stay on top of the latest safety procedures with centralized configuration and automatic change distribution.

• Improve awareness of food safety with instant alerts and enterprise reports.

• Simplify support with centralized configuration tool and easy-to-use hardware and software solution.



FOOD SAFETY MONITORING

- Ensures critical control points are maintained


INSPECTION REMINDERS

- Flashing

- Audible


CHECKLISTS

- One-point and multi-point food handling process

- One-time or repeat scheduling


TRANSMISSION

- Completed checklists sent to enterprise

- Incomplete checklists held in queue


TEMPERATURE INPUT

- Direct

- Manual


ALERTS

- Rule-based critical limit detection

- Corrective action prompts action options

- Acknowledgement


AUDIT TRAIL

- Operator name

- Location verification

- Timestamp


COMPLETION VERIFICATION

- By user pin

- By user signature


ENTERPRISE REPORTS

- Maintain records of HACCP compliance


LOCATION SETUPS

- User administration

- Programmable definitions

- Menu items

- Equipment

- Critical limits

- Corrective actions

- Checklist construction

- Automatic synchronization to handheld units




Green Edge Systems, Inc., is a trusted leader of HACCP temperature monitoring and control and food safety solutions, state-of-the-art affordable hardware products, software and communication platforms. Green Edge Systems is a member of SNA, the School Nutrition Association, http://www.schoolnutrition.org , and NACUFS , The National Association of College & University Food Services , http://www.nacufs.org

Green Edge Systems, Inc., is a trusted leader of Technology Solutions for School Food Services that include HACCP wireless temperature monitoring and food safety solutions, state-of-the-art affordable hardware products, software and communication platforms , humidity refrigeration control and Digital Menu Boards that include the FreshLoc HACCP wireless temperature monitoring system, the iQuality PAR Tech Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection System, the HumiFilters humidity cooler filter Blankets ,the Epicure Digital Menu Boards for School Foodservices and the Tel-Tru Check-Temp thermometer calibrators. These systems provide key elements for implementing the required HACCP food safely that ensures food safely and substantial saving for school food services and efficient and modern operation of School Food Services.

To get additional information on the Freshloc HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring Systems for Food Services, the iQuality PAR Tech Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection System, the Epicure Digital Menu systems, the HumiFilters Humidity Cooler Filter Blankets and the Tel-Tru Check-Temp thermometer calibrators or to set up a meeting and demonstration, visit us at one of the coming events or contact Green Edge Systems, Inc. at 818-825-8167, [email protected] .


Contact:
Tommy Orpaz ,CEO
Green Edge Systems, Inc.
Woodland Hills, CA 91364
[email protected]
818-825-8167
http://www.GreenEdgeSystems.com

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