‘We’ve had the Mesa (Checkpoint) system in place since 2006. We are using the system to monitor our incubators, refrigerators, regular freezers, ultra-low freezers and room temperatures. The Checkpoint system automatically monitors each unit every 15 minutes and we have ours set up so that if three consecutive readings our out of the range that we have established for the unit, an e-mail is send to certain individuals alerting them to the condition. We can then log in to the system and look for trends. This capability has saved us several times on a Friday afternoon when a refrigerator was going out and we were able to transfer the contents to a different refrigerator that day instead of finding everything warm and ruined Monday morning. The Mesa (Checkpoint) system is easy to use and it is very convenient to be able to see the current condition of every piece of equipment being monitored by the system at a glance as well as look back at past alerts or at dates in the past for any particular piece. The temperature probes themselves are replaced every year with new certified/calibrated probes and the system as a whole has been very robust.’
