A networked air quality monitoring system. Such a system could provide information beyond the user's local instrument on air quality over a much larger area. This information could be used by a user to make decisions about frequenting particular areas based on the results, or to alert them to changing conditions in the area so that the user might act before local conditions change.

A wireless sensor includes a radio frequency (RF) front end, a sensing element, and a processing module. The RF front end sends a coded digital value to a sensing computing device via an RF signal. The sensing element senses an environmental condition of an item. The processing module determines an effect on an operational parameter of an RF front end of the wireless sensor as a result of the sensing element sensing the environmental condition. The processing module also adjusts tuning of the RF front end to mitigate the effect on the operational parameter and equates an amount of adjusting of the tuning of the RF front end to the coded digital value.

An analytic device comprising a device housing, a dock to receive a camera enabled mobile electronic device, such as a smartphone and other smart devices, and a processing device to communicate with the mobile electronic device and to control a condition of the assay tube, such as temperature. In another example, the analytic device comprises a device housing and a circuit board. A processing device, a heating block defining a recess to support assay tube, and a resistive heater are surface mounted to the circuit board. A light source and a fan are also provided. A dock may be provided to support a mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device communicates with the processing device to cause the application of reaction conditions to the assay tube, to perform a PCR procedure, for example. Methods are also disclosed.

A method for performing quality control on a diagnostic analyzer includes receiving control measurement values from each of a plurality of diagnostic analyzers. A quality control measurement value is received from a target diagnostic analyzer. The quality control measurement value is compared with statistical criteria associated with the plurality of quality control measurement values received from the plurality of diagnostic analyzers. A comparison result is communicated to a user interface associated with the target diagnostic analyzer.

Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing and interpreting data streams between an instrument and a controlling device. A processor is configured to receive a data stream sent by the instrument to the controlling device and identify data frames in the stream. The processor is configured to search for a bit pattern in the stream, identify bits corresponding to a message length of a first presumed data frame based on a location relative to the bit pattern, and identify a second presumed data frame in the data stream based on the message length of the first presumed data frame. The processor is further configured to identify a second instance of the bit pattern, increase a count, continue scanning, extract and store instrument measurement data or operational metadata from the identified data frames, and analyze or interpret the captured data and metadata for visualization or alerts.

A sensory test and entrusted analysis method includes: receiving, by a second device, information identifying a sample, the information being transmitted from a first device; registering, by the second device, the information identifying the sample and a sensory evaluation item about the sample; adding, by the second device, identification information to the information identifying the sample; transmitting, by the second device, the identification information and an analysis item corresponding to the sensory evaluation item to a third device; receiving, by the second device, the identification information and an analysis result corresponding to the analysis item of the sample from the third device; registering, by the second device, a sensory result generated about the sample; and transmitting, by the second device, the analysis result and the sensory result to the first device.

Computer systems (130, 120, 230) support a production process with a first sub-process to process a chemical substance at a production site and with a second sub-process to analyze a physical sample of the chemical substance at a laboratory site. A process control system (120) provides first type data (A) to identify physical samples, and a manufacturing system (130) provides second type data (B) that are required to control a production process. Connector modules (105, 205) transmit the data (A, B) in a message (150) to a laboratory system (230) to obtain laboratory data, as an analysis result. The connector module (205) that is associated with the laboratory system (230) distributes the data according to the types. A control signal module (139) derives a control signal (136/138) for controlling the production process. This control signal closes a control loop for adjusting the first sub-process until the laboratory data shows compliance.

Systems and methods for use in an in vitro diagnostics setting incorporating existing or additional sensors in an automation system to assess the health and maintenance status of the automation system are disclosed. Such systems include any of a variety of sensors, such as Hall Effect sensors, temperature probes/thermocouples, ohm meters, volt meters, etc., which are in communication with a local or preferably remote monitoring station that can alert a user or maintenance personnel of needed service.

An apparatus comprises a light source array, a communication interface, and a controller. The light source array comprises one or more directional light sources. The communication interface is configured to receive user data from at least one appliance, the user data indicative of an identity of a user. The controller is configured to analyze the identity of the user and activate the one or more directional light sources in response to the identity of the user.

The present technology provides for an apparatus for detecting polynucleotides in samples, particularly from biological samples. The technology more particularly relates to microfluidic systems that carry out PCR on nucleotides of interest within microfluidic channels, and detect those nucleotides. The apparatus includes a microfluidic cartridge that is configured to accept a plurality of samples, and which can carry out PCR on each sample individually, or a group of, or all of the plurality of samples simultaneously.