Itron's display innovation for COVID applications

One such customer, KBiosystems manufactures equipment used in detecting COVID variants with its wide range of sample sealers employing 4.3" and 7" display modules.

A typical sample tray consists of 225 compartments, which once loaded, requires a foil heat seal to be applied to prevent contamination.

The latest designs use Itron's modular system solution with stepper motor drive, temperature measurement and heating sub-modules controlled by the display module operating iDevOS via internal serial CAN and I2C interfaces.

The stepper motor module uses a local AVR CPU and watchdog to, firstly, monitor safety interlocks, to control the motor and to enable heating to provide a fail-safe solution.

Another customer, Monmouth Scientific manufactures Clean Air Cabinets which guarantee a highly clean environment in which to analyse thousands of swabs from COVID Test Centres. 

Both 4.3" and 7" display modules are used across a range of products to set flow rate, filter change and other parameter settings.