Today, April 7th, is World Health Day and for this reason we would like to share some success stories where we have recently installed AFX9 sensors.

The AFX-9 is the most competitive embedded controller on the market. It is designed for laboratories, climate engineering professionals for clean rooms, industries, data centres, ICU, isolation rooms and operating theatres.
Here is a brief report of some collaborations we have made with the country's healthcare system.

In hospitals
In the last months, several AFX9 sensors have been installed in operating theatres of a well-known Hospital Consortium of “Vallès Occidental”, and also more recently in health centres in the Canary Islands. Their function is to control the differential pressure, temperature and humidity in the operating room in order to maintain constant optimum temperature and humidity conditions, and to prevent the entry/exit of viruses and thus avoid contamination from the outside or the inside of these operating rooms.

This equipment has also been used in isolation rooms in the “Vallès Occidental” hospital for two different purposes: firstly, to control the temperature and humidity in order to guarantee the comfort and well-being of the patient who is admitted. Also, to maintain a depression inside the room and thus prevent the viruses for which it is isolated, such as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes Covid-19, from going outside. The second function for which AFX9 is used in some isolation rooms is to ensure just the opposite effect: it is a protective function towards the patient, to prevent viruses and contaminants from entering the patient's room, for example, in those who suffer from immunological diseases and are immunosuppressed, or are undergoing treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, such as chemotherapy.

In all cases, customers who purchased these devices, given the pandemic situation, were widely satisfied for the reduced delivery time. Some equipment was delivered in less than 48 hours from the factory.
We would like to point out that these devices integrate the control function and this allows optimization of their BMS system (e.g. an SCADA). In addition, the equipment is so easy to configure, which made it unnecessary to send a technician on site to do the programming/installation of the equipment.

Covid-19 vaccine storage
During January, with the arrival of the first Moderna vaccines, one of the challenges was to set up controlled storage rooms before the vaccines landed at Barajas. In record time, we shipped 15 units of AFX9 controllers to the laboratories that acted as a receiving and logistics centre in Madrid.
In this case, the equipment was used to monitor and control the pressure, temperature and humidity variables to correctly conserve the vials of the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 while it is distributed to the rest of Spain. The vaccine can be stored for up to six months at -20 °C, or up to thirty days at temperatures of 2-8 °C (common in most domestic refrigerators).
We are pleased to have done our bit with this collaboration because of the current importance of the vaccination campaign and its impact on collective health.

ECRO's AFX9 sensor, manufactured in France, is now an essential element in this type of installation throughout Europe. It is increasingly on demand, not only because of the technical advantages mentioned above, but also because of the large stock and fast delivery offered by the manufacturer throughout Europe.

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