eTemperature is a powerful, yet easy to use, software solution which helps you get the most out of your Thermochron temperature logger. It allows you to configure the logger, download results, and then analyse and compare them.
Find out more about…
- Graphing
- Results and Data
- Reporting
- Configuration
- Other Information
Graphing
Display Results as Graphs
“A picture is worth a thousand words”. A graph is the quickest and easiest way to see the results from your logger. A large amount of data can be visually displayed on one screen. Extreme highs and lows are easily identified.
Graph Zooming and Panning
Since so much data can be displayed in one graph, it is critical to be able to zoom in on a particular section. This allows you to see the “big picture” as well as the fine detail. Panning then allows you to move along the graph to the next or previous sections.
Colour Coded Graph
Points that are outside the limits can be a different colour to points within the limits. This allows you to instantly identify high or low readings.
Copy Graph to Clipboard
The graph can be copied as an image to the clipboard. This then allows you to paste it into applications such as Microsoft Word or into a graphics editing program. So if you are building up a report and need graphs to make a point, then eTemperature can help.
Multiple Logs on one Graph
By overlaying multiple sets of results, it is possible to easily compare different locations. It also makes it possible to extend a graph over a number of runs.
Graph Annotations
eTemperature can place a marker on the graph with text. This allows you to mark up the chart with explanations. These annotations can also be printed on the reports.
Results and Data
Display Results as Table
The table shows every result including the date, time and temperature. It is the “raw” data that allows you to know exactly what happened when.
Export to Excel, CSV, Word, Clipboard
The table can be exported to a number of other applications to allow you to do further analysis or reporting.
Delete beginning or end for data cleanup
Often the results may contain unwanted data at the start or end of the run. eTemperature will allow this data to be deleted for reporting purposes. The information is NOT deleted from the saved results, just the displayed and reported results. It will NOT delete records midway through results so users can’t doctor results.
Save to file for later recall
Information such as minimum and maximum temperatures, start and end dates, and average temperature are automatically calculated.
Simple Data analysis including min, max, range
eTemperature can place a marker on the graph with text. This allows you to mark up the chart
Advanced data analysis including ice days and Mean Kinetic Temperature
For the more scientific, calculations such as ice-days and mean kinetic temperature are also calculated. Ice days is a value that is growing in popularity as an indicator to how “fresh” items are. It is a reliable indicator of the rate of perishing/aging of items that should be kept refrigerated.
Interval Selection
eTemperature can place a marker on the graph with text. This allows you to mark up the chart
Graph Annotations
The analysis can be run over the entire range or over user selectable intervals. It is quick and easy to do an analysis over a day, week, hour or “run”.
Reporting
Configurable Reports
eTemperature has two standard reports with options that provide either full detail or various levels of summarising.
These reports can easily be modified using a built-in template editor. This allows you to change the font, logos, location and more. In fact, this editor has so much power the manual is huge. Fortunately the stuff we typically want to change is simple.
Include Graph
By exporting the graph on the report, readers are able to get the instant “big picture”.
Daily Min/Max
Many existing clients (e.g. pharmacies) are used to collecting the daily minimum/maximum readings. This report summarises the days readings down to the minimum and maximum.
Daily Min/Max with Alarm Points
This report is the daily min/max report but with the added feature of displaying every reading that is outside the high or low limits. This overcomes the shortcomings of the min/max thermometer where you only know that there was a problem but you don’t know when or for how long. This report will give you all of that information, and usually still on a single page printout.
All Readings
This level of detail will display every reading.
Save as PDF, HTML or Image
Reports can be saved as pdf, html or images making them easy to distribute to other people.
Email Results
Where Windows security allows it, results can be automatically emailed using either Microsoft Outlook or any generic email programs.
Configuration
Flexible Configuration
Temperature loggers can have customised descriptions, sampling rate, starting options and alarm limits..
Unit Description
The standard option is to store a single “description” in the Thermochron. This description is kept with the logger, displayed when retrieved, stored in the save file, and also used as the basis of the saved file name. It is ideal for containing the location of the logger, the shipping reference, customer name, or any other useful information.
Option to store customised data with logger
Extending the basic description that is stored with the loggers is the option to have a set of data. The format and contents are completely user configurable. This acts as a “portable database” with reference data kept with the logger.
Sample rate and display when data will be full
A key feature of all temperature loggers is to either stop logging when the memory is full, or to overwrite the oldest data. In either mode it is critical to know how long it will be before this occurs. If you retrieve the results before this you guarantee to get all the readings. If you don’t, then you will lose some data. To make this easier, as you change the sample rate, eTemperature will display when that critical moment will occur. This assists in knowing if you need to slow the sampling rate down, or if you can make if faster if need be.
Allow rollover when data is full or stop logging
This will determine if the logger will stop when the memory is full, or keep logging. If you are shipping goods and have no control over how long it will take for the logger to be returned then turn rollover off. In this case the unit will stop logging once the memory is full and retain the initial journey. Alternatively, if you leave the logger permanently in place and always want the most recent data then turn rollover on.
Start delay by fixed date/time or relative time
When using the optional start delay, it is possible to set it in either terms of a fixed date and time (e.g. start on the 11th June at 9pm) or a relative time (e.g. start in 3 days, 4 hours). This makes it very easy to synchronise loggers, start at a given time, or provide yourself with time to get the loggers into the field.
High, low alarms
The high and low alarms will determine the default alarms when displaying the results. This is useful for where the start retrieving the results aren’t aware of the expected temperatures.
"Popular settings" alarm limits
Since most users have standard requirements, a series of”popular settings” buttons have already been configured with the most common high and low temperature alarms.
These include settings for vaccine fridges, fridges and freezers. This allows users to program loggers with a couple pushes of a button.
Other information
Temperature Units:
Easily change between reports being in °C or °F.
User defined date format
Easily customise the format in which dates appear to match your locale.
Calibration results at time of manufacture
If the calibration data at time of manufacture is stored in the device then it will be displayed and a calibration report is available. Note that this is not the same as a NATA Certificate, but the manufacturer is NIST certified which is the US standard.
Free upgrades
Upgrades are freely available for the life of the software. There is no annual subscription fee, no upgrade fee, and no support fee.
