Hello everyone,
This is my first post. So please tell me if I need to add anything. I would like to introduce you to an exciting project that we are currently working on at our university. It would be great if any of you have already had similar experiences or have valuable tips for us.
Our aim is to record the resource consumption in our laboratories specifically for individual experiments and not just the total consumption of all experiments. This should enable benchmarking between different methods and experiments. This should improve the efficiency and traceability of resource use and at the same time provide a data basis for identifying the best methods.
The system is based on NFC tag readers installed at the laboratory workstations and intermediate plugs for measuring electricity consumption, as well as water flow meters for water consumption. Various gases and compressed air are also to be measured in the future.
When a lab technician logs on to a tag reader using an NFC card, a service call is triggered which resets the corresponding utility meter assigned to the NFC card and the workstation (e.g. for electricity or water consumption) to 0. The utility meter then starts recording the resource consumption at this particular workstation from the start of the experiment. When logging out, the determined consumption is transferred to a separate entity that is assigned to the specific experiment. A tag reader and sensors for resource recording are to be installed at each workstation in the laboratory so that all steps can be measured at the various workstations of the laboratory technicians during the course of an experiment.
Do any of you already have experience with a similar system or do you know of any projects that go in this direction? I have not yet been able to find any projects of this kind and would be delighted to hear your feedback!
Best regards,
Alex