Pharmaceutical and chemical plant environments require taking special measures to ensure personnel safety. Providing full visibility to people's whereabouts in case of an emergency is extremely crucial to a safe evacuation. Real-time visibility of products and equipment across the enterprise drives operations efficiency and prevents shrinkage and loss. The AeroScout solution offers automated monitoring of conditions such as temperature and humidity of assets and areas. AeroScout's tags and infrastructure are also available in an Intrinsically Safe form factor for explosion-sensitive environments.

AeroScout's visibility solutions leverage standard Wi-Fi wireless networks to deliver direct benefits to pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing facilities. Customers can improve personnel safety, increase operations efficiency and overall profitability.

Worker Safety

AeroScout’s tags carried by personnel and visitors provide a variety of applications that increase safety:

• Panic button – A person can click the tag’s panic button when immediate help is required or in case of emergency
• Man down – when a person is not in motion for a certain amount of time the tag will send an immediate alert
• Mustering – In case of emergency evacuation, personnel are mustered at specific gathering points, their presence is automatically confirmed and recorded; emergency response and security crews can also view the location of missing people and they can be tracked in real-time while in search.
• Environmental exposure levels - Monitor the time employees spend in noisy/chemical environments

Sensors and Telemetry

AeroScout tags feature temperature and humidity sensors and can link to a broad range of additional sensor and telemetry data sources. This enables the tags to wirelessly transmit valuable data, and automatically trigger alerts or actions based on reaching a threshold. For example, monitoring humidity and temperature levels in storage and production rooms, monitoring exposure level to gases, and monitoring the temperature of sensitive chemical items.

Security and Access Control

Instant and accurate alerts upon tagged personnel or visitors moving from one area to the other or entering restricted areas.

Equipment Visibility

AeroScout provides complete indoors and outdoors visibility to the location and status of containers, materials, products and other critical assets. The solution allows users to quickly search for an asset and view its real time location. Location and status information and meaningful business events (such as asset shortage or equipment arrival) update a variety of enterprise applications (e.g. ERP, MES, WMS) through standard API’s. The solution prevents loss of critical assets and dramatically increases labor productivity and delays in manufacturing.