Santa’s World ‘o’ Meter estimates that the current global population stands at just over eight billion people – this is approximately 526 million children celebrating Christmas, hoping to open presents on December 25.

A wireless telemetry application is only as good as the antenna system. Whether it’s a radiological system in a nuclear plant, an industrial alarm, or even a utility gas or water metre, it’s important that the signals are reliably transmitted and received. Here Ian McNeilage, engineering manager at wireless telemetry specialist Omniflex, provides a five step plan for effective antenna selection.

Omniflex has continued its partnership with Edinburgh University Hospital, upgrading and extending its safety-critical radiation protection system to cater for its new cyclotron. The original system, installed by Omniflex in 2007, has been updated at a time when Edinburgh University is looking to increase production of radioactive isotopes for its positron emission tomography (PET) scanning facilities.

Being well-reputed for its anti-retroviral drug trials, it’s no surprise that the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) has been entrusted with the storage and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa. Here Ian Loudon, International Sales and Marketing Manager at Omniflex, discusses how temperature and humidity monitoring is vital in applications where small fluctuations could compromise critical assets.

Back in 2010, Santa Claus and his elves faced a huge predicament. With the world population standing at almost 7 billion - up 13% from 2000, Santa’s traditional wooden sleigh could no longer take the weight. To carry the extra 81 million presents to children and adults all over the world, he decided to upgrade to a new steel structure.

You wouldn’t build a new railway or motorway every time you needed to travel somewhere, so why install new cable? After all, you’ve probably already got spare cores in your existing multi-core cable network or, better yet, an old telephone network that’s lying unused? Here, Gary Bradshaw, Director at Omniflex, has explained how the company’s Conet technology allows businesses to repurpose existing cabling to create a new i...

In partnership with engineering firm AMOG Consulting, Omniflex has developed an oversized ore detection system for the global mining industry. The system uses sensors on the tray and machine-learning techniques to detect the size of ore rubble as it loaded into haul trucks to be carried from the blast site to the crushing plant. This information is wirelessly communicated through Omniflex’s gateway in the cab of the truck to the driver and ...

In hospitals and laboratories around the world, cryopreservation is used for the long-term storage of human tissue samples, blood and bone marrow. Even small fluctuations in the freezer’s operating temperature can lead to the loss of valuable research materials. Here Ian Loudon, international sales and marketing manager at Omniflex, has discussed how Oxford University and South Africa’s Medical Research Council are reaping the benefit...

Cable theft has plagued South African industry for decades, and is an issue that requires much more than technology to solve. Despite this, Ian Loudon, International Sales and Marketing Manager at Omniflex, explains how advances in remote monitoring are giving businesses a fighting chance.

Remote monitoring and alarm system manufacturer, Omniflex provides radiological monitoring systems to help organisations handling radiological substances. The technology will help the likes of radionuclide manufacturing, sites, hospitals that use Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems and others handling similar materials to minimise emissions and gain greater control over complex sites.

Omniflex has supplied an SMS alert system to the University of Oxford’s Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research. The remote module allows the lab’s researchers to receive 24/7 alerts directly to their mobile phone in the event that freezers holding samples deviate from the critical temperature window. It is understood the laboratory is holding COVID-19 samples as part of the effort to develop a vaccine.

As the impact of COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause disruption, some critical infrastructure sites are still operating with a skeleton crew of staff, while other industrial sites begin the slow process of coming out of lockdown.

Whenever PLC/DCS/RTU equipment and field wiring is located where lightning strikes are likely to occur, it is essential to include protection. The Surge Protection board from Omniflex is a quick and effective way of safeguarding sensitive electrical instrumentation from the damages that can be caused by overvoltage and lightning-induced surges.

Omniflex have today announced the release of the Teleterm M2Re RTU. The Teleterm M2Re RTU from Omniflex is designed for remote monitoring and control applications where cable installations are impractical or too expensive. The RTU makes such applications simple to achieve and low cost to install by including a built-in Radio, Antennae and an Ethernet port.

When Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust decided to collect energy consumption data in real time from more than 100 energy meters around its two hospitals, Bradford and St Luke’s, it chose Omniflex to provide the server and communications infrastructure. Omniflex supplied and commissioned an on-site Omnergy data server and 13 metering gateways to communicate with more than 100 new and existing energy meters around the two sites. ...

Dulux in South Africa is a wholly owned subsidiary of AECI. As part of a strategy to improve plant efficiency, the company decided to engage the services of Omniflex, which has offices in South Africa, Australia and the UK. The company needed to provide direct control to vendors in the management of bulk chemical supply and on-site storage.

Omniflex can provide complete sitewide alarm management system in accordance to the requirements of IEC61508 and EEMUA 191 standards. These systems include the conditioning of the front end process signal through SIL rated Trip amplifiers and transmit these alarms over copper cable or via SIL2 rated Fibre optic Transmitters/Receivers (where Fibre optic cable is used) into SIL rated Alarm Annunciators and Sub 1 millisecond Sequence of Event Record...

Omniflex can provide complete sitewide alarm management system in accordance to the requirements of IEC61508 and EEMUA 191 standards. These systems include the conditioning of the front end process signal through SIL rated Trip amplifiers and transmit these alarms over copper cable or via SIL2 rated Fibre optic Transmitters/Receivers (where Fibre optic cable is used) into SIL rated Alarm Annunciators and Sub 1 millisecond Sequence of Event Record...

The Technology Top 100 Awards are run annually with Top Companies competing for honours. A rigorous round of Interviews and evaluations are done by a team of adjudicators to select the qualifiers. From the list of Qualifiers a set of finalists are selected and re-evaluated for the Top awards in each category. Omniflex received runner up awards in two of the determining categories for the Prestigious Technology Top 100 Companies.

Glastonbury Festival is the largest ‘Greenfield’ music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it. Event organisers choose Omniflex Wireless Telemetry equipment to ensure water is delivered across the site effectively, efficiently and economically.