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Print / Email this article Date Posted: Sep. 12, 2007

Monitor Technologies Introduces Self-Validating High Level SafePoint Indicator



When a high level sensor fails, when do people find out?

Most people you find out when they overfill the bin or silo.

Then they have to deal with the aftermath, which means cleanup costs, lost product, contaminated product, damaged equipment, maintenance and their boss breathing down their neck to get the production back up and running.

One user of high level sensors tells that he estimates the cost of overfilling a silo to be about $5,000.

Today a new class of high level sensor has emerged, sensors that are "self validating" and not just simply fail-safe on power failure.

Monitor Technologies' SafePoint(r) is a self-validating high level sensors and provides "True" fail-safe protection.

Monitor Technologies announced the issuance of a patent by the United States Patent Office that covers the use of Hall-Effect sensors as an integral component to ensure reliability of the self-validating techniques contained within the SafePoint bin level indicator.

The SafePoint is the only device to use this reliable and safe technique to allow the instrument to self-validate its function to ensure safe process operation.

While other devices use optical sensors that can be fouled with dust and other contamination, the use of magnetic Hall-effect sensing technology ensures full-time reliable self-validation and operation.

Product Cost

The cost to prevent spills due to unrecognized high level sensor failure?

About $300 for ordinary locations.

Why use anything else?

The SafePoint bin level indicator's self-validating and patented technology continuously monitors its internal functionality and indicates its safe state to the user of the device.

If through damage, electrical/mechanical failure or component malfunction the sensor is unable to operate properly, an output is immediately initiated to indicate a failed condition.

This sensor health status indication is in addition to the standard output function indicating the presence/absence of material in the vessel at the point desired to be monitored.

Local indication of sensor health and material presence/absence is also provided in all ordinary location units.

SafePoint bin level indicators are the best choice for safely indicating the level of powder and other bulk solids in bins, silos and tanks.

Unlike other brands and devices available, the SafePoint reliably protects the user against overfilling and surprise outages using patented Hall-effect sensors.

For more information call Emily Jones of Monitor Technologies at 1-800-766-6486.

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