Kaye LabWatch IOT, Facility and Environment Monitoring System
Cloud Monitoring System
Description
LabWatch® IoT is a premium, cloud-native monitoring platform that gives your organization real-time visibility and control over critical stability, environmental, and facility conditions—so you can protect product integrity, reduce risk, and simplify compliance. Secure site-to-cloud connections (VPN and encrypted storage) continuously monitor any number of chambers and sensors, detect alarm conditions instantly, and route intelligent alerts to the right people wherever they are—eliminating paper logs and manual data retrieval.
Designed for effortless oversight, LabWatch delivers current alarm status, historical readings, and trend analytics through a clean, responsive dashboard accessible from any web browser or mobile device. Users sign in with company credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for enterprise-grade security. Built-in reporting lets you generate audit-ready records automatically or on demand, speeding investigations and ensuring inspection readiness with minimal administrative effort.
LabWatch IoT now integrates seamlessly with the Kaye NetPac II and the Kaye ValProbe® RM for both real-time wired and wireless monitoring. The ValProbe RM’s compact, rugged base accepts two digital sensors—giving you flexible sensing in a single logger—while NetPac II provides reliable data aggregation across larger installations. Both devices securely transmit primary environmental parameters, primarily temperature and humidity, to the LabWatch Cloud for centralized analysis and long-term recordkeeping.
From frontline technicians to compliance managers and executives, LabWatch simplifies decision-making with timely alerts, role-based views, and exportable data for custom analysis. Whether you’re scaling across facilities or optimizing a single site, LabWatch combines proven hardware, secure cloud infrastructure, and intuitive software to reduce downtime, lower operational overhead, and strengthen your quality program. Contact Kaye to schedule a demo and see how LabWatch can streamline your monitoring, accelerate response, and safeguard your operations.
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Features
Complete Cloud Solution
Integrating high quality sensors, latest wireless and wired technologies for communication and networking abilities into an easy-to-use browser Information Management Solution, LabWatch IoT combines precise facility monitoring with effective alarming, hassle-free reporting, and secure data Cloud archiving and performance. LabWatch IoT detects system excursions and can alarm personnel wherever they are. It can document any number of chambers without generating stacks of paper, protect data with secure storage, create an audit trail of alarms and actions taken by the facility monitoring system and system operators and provides ready access to historical data.
Using AWS GxP services, LabWatch IoT is the next generation of environmental and facility monitoring! No expensive Servers, no specific operating systems, no need for IT support - Kaye LabWatch IoT has now gone to the Cloud.
Regulatory compliance
The extensive new reporting capabilities of the LabWatch IoT system allow you to generate reports in compliance with FDA, GMP/GLP, AABB, JCAHO, AAALAC and other regulatory bodies. By maintaining a secure archive of monitored values from your sensors, alarms and system access, the facility monitoring system can readily provide the information you need for internal analysis and regulatory required documentation.
Scalability & Flexibility
Whether you are looking for monitoring 5 points for a single room, or 500+ inputs,on a system spread globally, LabWatch IoT provides the building blocks to meet your specific needs. LabWatch IoT provides the flexibility for you to build up your own system or get a turnkey end to end solution from Kaye Instruments.
Monitor, Alarm, Secure, Report, Access, Visibility
With sophisticated facility monitoring and reporting features, LabWatch IoT proves to be an effective turnkey solution for your laboratory, warehouse and stability monitoring needs. The system provides a cost effective way to view and collect real time data for regulatory compliant monitoring of your valuable inventory. Critical environmental information is provided to assure that your equipment is operating within defined parameters, thereby protecting your assets and providing a ready trail of compliance.
Key Features & Benefits
- Operates in compliance with the FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11 on Electronic Signatures and Records.
- Creates an audit trail of alarms and actions taken by the facility monitoring system and the people who log onto the system.
- Provides a complete history of alarms and data in one central location, automatically.
- Protects your time by avoiding nuisance alarms and guards your product investment by providing reliable alarm detection.
- Notifies an unlimited number of people to handle specific alarm conditions with a variety of notification methods: mobile APP, email, SMS and audio alarms.
- Lets you retrieve data easily for viewing, reporting, analysis, and regulatory inspection.
- Provides tools to review historical data and create the customized reports to suit management or client requirements.
- Provides secure data storage via AWS GxP storage to prevent tampering.
- Does not require any specific OS - uses industry standard browsers to access the monitoring system.
- Unlimited amount of concurrent users can access the facility monitoring system
Wired/Wireless Distributed Measurement Hardware
- Redundant Data Storage - Loggers, Base stations, Netpac II
- Remote Access - any standard web browser
- Ease of Use Alarm Notification - mobile APP, Email, SMS
- Reporting Features
- Services - Specification development, Installation, IQ/OQ protocol development/execution, Training, Calibration Services, Technical Support
Robust & Scalable System Architecture
The Kaye LabWatch IoT system is built as an AWS GxP Model encompassing intelligence and redundancy at multiple levels in the system. Each of the elements in the architecture are robust, complete & independent sub systems. At the primary input of the system lie the extremely accurate calibrated sensor modules temperature/humidity/CO2/Pressure/etc.). These sensor elements feed into the RF Valprobe data loggers or the Netpac modules. The battery operated RF Loggers store and forward the real time data from the sensor elements at programmed interval to the RF Base Stations. Up to 30000 samples can be stored on these loggers and can be retrieved in case of a power failure on the base stations or RF transmission issues.
The loggers communicate data real time via a robust and reliable 2.4 GHz RF (Radio Frequency) Wireless network interconnected via the SmartMesh technology to the base stations. The RF base stations have the ability to connect to up to 100 loggers and 8 such base stations can be connected to a LabWatch IoT system via an Ethernet network or USB. The RF Base stations provide the second level of redundancy in case of a Network or Server failures and can store 30000 samples from each of the 100 loggers. The RF Base stations communicate to the LabWatch IoT Cloud Server via the industry standard OPC/UA Server.
The LabWatch IoT facility monitoring system can be a Wireless or a Wired System. The system architecture supports a Hybrid system with Wired and Wireless inputs based on the customer application or to add new Wired or Wireless points to an existing Wired/Wireless networks. In a Wired System the sensor modules are physically wired to a Netpac module. The Netpac modules are connected to the LabWatch IoT system through an Ethernet or RS485 connectivity. The Netpac modules communicate to the Server via a Netpac OPC/UA Driver loaded as part of the LabWatch System.
LabWatch IoT is a complete facility monitoring application residing on the LabWatch AWS GxP Server, using only a local workstation to apply a VPN connection for the necessary security for data transmission. All the data from the sensor modules, application configuration information, audit trail, security information is stored on the LabWatch IoT Server. User can access the LabWatch system remotely via any web browser, from any PC or mobile platform.
Applications
Typical Applications
- Warehouses Clean Rooms
- Blood Banks
- Pharmacies
- Cold Storage
- Animal Rooms
- Laboratories
Typical Assets
- Stability Chambers
- Freezers
- Refrigerators
- Incubators
- Cryogenic Freezers
- LN2 tanks
- Ovens
Typical Sensor Inputs
- Temperature - RTDs, Thermocouples
- Humidity
- CO2
- Pressure - Absolute, Differential
- Contacts - Door Switch, Relays
- Voltage/Current inputs
- Light - Visible, Ultraviolet
- Air Flows
Specifications
General specifications
| Web Browser access |
Any supported web browser, any OS - Unlimited concurrent User connections. Mobile / Smart phone APP access for easy login and acknowledgement of Alarms and data review. |
| Security | Uses Single Sign On with optional Multi-Factor Authorization PIN code. |
| Software | Kaye LabWatch IoT - using AWS GxP |
| VPN Cloud connection | Use any PC for VPN connectivity to cloud for secure tunnel |
| Compatibility | Interfaces with any OPC based hardware, Kaye Netpacs and RF Mesh Sensors. |
Netpac II Wired Field Modules
| Inputs |
Voltages ±55mV, ±100mV, ±1V, ±10V Currents 0 to 1mA, 4-20mA, 10 to 50mA Thermocouples J, K, T, R, S, E, B (inc. cold junction compensation and linearization) RTD Pt-100, Cu-10 Dry Contact Open/Closed |
| Input Capacity | From 8 to 64 inputs in 8-input increments: NEMA 4 enclosure |
| Outputs | Contact out, 2A at 26 VDC, 1A at 120 VAC Analogue out 0 to 10VDC, 0 to 5VDC, 4 to 20mA, 1 to 5mA |
| Environmental Temperature: | 0 to 60°C; Humidity: 0 to 95% non-condensing |
| Communications | TCP/IP over corporate LAN |
| Power Input: | 24 VDC, 115VAC, 230 VAC Consumption: 11W maximum for any number of channels |
Sensors
| Thermocouples | J, K, T: Specs for type T: Stranded, 22 AWG , Accuracy ± 0.1°C at 40°C, ± 0.25°C at 121°C; Variation within group (type) ± 0.03°C at 40°C, ± 0.05°C at 121°C |
| Humidity | Input for humidity only or with temperature: Humidity accuracy: 1% or 2%; Output: 4 to 20mA; Power 24 VDC; Temperature range: -10 to 78°C, ± 0.3°C accuracy |
| Other Sensors | Light (visible & UV), pressure (absolute and differential), flow, CO2, door switches |
ValProbe RM System – General specifications
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Parameter |
Specification |
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Measurement Inputs |
Temperature, RH, voltage, current, contact |
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RF Operating Frequency |
2.4 GHz ISM band (IEEE 802.15.4 compliant) |
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RF Network Topology |
Star topology |
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Antenna Diversity |
A proprietary dual‑antenna design for enhanced signal reliability |
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Data Rate & Encryption |
250 kbps, AES 128 |
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RF Range |
Up to 300 meters (Line of Sight, outdoor) |
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Loggers & Sensors |
50 loggers, 100 sensors per base station |
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Data Storage |
Up to 100,000 samples per sensor |
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Sampling Rate |
1 minute |
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Data Transmission Rate |
30 seconds |
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Certified Countries |
USA, Canada, EU (for others contact factory) |
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Compliance |
CE, FCC, and safety listed by Eurofins MET Labs |