fMon — Use Case
Customer: PBKM S.A. (Polish Stem Cell Bank)


PBKM is always open to their client's expectations and needs as their main goal is their client's satisfaction. PBKM is focused on maintaining high quality of their services, and confirming positive opinions on their reliability and honesty. Their care of achieving highest quality standards requires constant improvement of their personnel qualifications, as well as maintaining state-of-the-art technical infrastructure.
Satisfaction of PBKM's clients means offering services of collecting and storing stem cells from the umbilical cord blood on world's highest level, maintaining full security of stored resources of current and future clients. PBKM declares to fulfill the demands and expectations of their clients through effective and flexible realization of duties, based on efficient management.
Challenges
- support for diverse sensors and measurement ranges
- central data access
- central "signal missing" alarm
- central "limit exceeded" alarm
- historical data availability
- data export to CSV format
- central alarm configuration
- integration with company's security alarm infrastructure
Solutions
The table below demostrates Cledar's fMon solution used in PBKM S.A.:
Initial setup
| Building A | Building B | |
| Topography | 3 rooms + 3 freezers | 10 cryostats |
| Devices in use | Dickson | TEC3000 |
| Communication | Ethernet | RS-485 |
| Monitored parameters | temperature; humidity | temperature1; temperature2; nitrogen level |
| Display of current data | on device only | on device only |
| Notification when no signal from sensors | none | none |
| Alarm when limits exceeded | none | beeper, on device only |
| Overview of alarms history | none | none |
| Export of historical data to CSV | range limited by buffer on device | |
| Alarm configuration | on device only | on device only |
| Link to company's alarm system | none | none |
Cledar's solution
| Building A | Building B | |
| Devices in use | T&D | TEC3000 |
| Communication | see diagram | see diagram |
| Display of current data | dedicated tab in central monitoring application | |
| Notification when no signal from sensors | dedicated tab in central monitoring application | |
| Alarm when limits exceeded | dedicated tab in central monitoring application | |
| Overview of alarms history | dedicated tab in central monitoring application | |
| Export of historical data to CSV | any time; any range | |
| Alarm configuration | dedicated tab in central monitoring application | |
| Link to company's alarm system | all devices integrated with Satel Integra64 control panel.
Flexible alarm configuration:
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| System flexibility | Thanks to fMon's flexible architecture
major modifications were possible during system's deployment:
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| Added value | AABB Accreditation: Implementing fMon was one of the key factors enabling PBKM S.A. to obtain the prestigious accreditation of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). The AABB Accreditation confirms that the methods, procedures, and equipment in the institution meet the highest quality standards applicable not only in the United States but also worldwide. Formal accreditation of Polish bank will facilitate cooperation with similar institutions around the world and enable continuous quality improvement of services. | |
Setup diagram (Building A):

Setup diagram (Building B):
