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Arco Arena saves thousands of dollars with Accsense Remote Monitoring System
Customer:
Arco Arena
Customer Background:
Arco Arena is a sports and entertainment facility, most notably known as the home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings. The arena has a variety of Dryers soft-serve ice cream carts. They contain about $2 thousand worth of product. The ice cream is an important source of revenue for the arena.
Customer Problem:
Janitors and other Arco staff periodically unplug the ice cream carts to use the power outlets, or trip the circuit breakers by using floor buffers or other maintenance equipment. The carts often sit for hours without power, and the ice cream melts.
“Melted ice cream has cost us upwards of $6-12 thousand a year,” said Chris Fogarty, chief engineer at the Arena.
Accsense Solution:
When 110v power is present, the external voltage supplied to the A1-06 wireless Sensor Pods is 4.9v. As soon as the power on the cart is lost, the voltage level inside the Pod drops to the 4.5 volts supplied by 3AA batteries in the pod.
The data is sent to Accsense’s secure sever facility, which alerts Fogarty and arena staff when the Pod does not have 110v power before the cart temperature drops and the ice cream melts. The system sends out eight emails, two text-to-voice messages and one text message to a cell anytime an alarm is triggered.
Customer Results:
“The system has trained people, because staff are now more aware”, Fogarty said. “Maintenance staff are now paying attention and we have fewer inadvertent power losses.”
Accsense’s wireless sensors were up and running in the arena’s ice cream carts within fifteen minutes. The arena has already saved thousands of dollars by decreasing product loss significantly. Now arena staff are notified immediately when voltage is out of range, allowing them to get fix the issue before it becomes a problem.
Overall, the arena’s Accsense system gives Arco an out-of-the-box solution for voltage monitoring - quickly and easily saving time, money and anxiety.
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