Healthcare
Equipment rooms, storage fridges, air conditioning — monitored 24/7, fixed before patients are affected.
Hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres run continuously, with equipment that cannot be interrupted. BenKon fits measurement devices without touching the equipment, monitors air conditioning, equipment-room temperature, storage fridges and energy; every issue goes to the right person and is verified after the fix.
Context
- Multi-shift operation, some sites running 24/7.
- Critical areas: imaging equipment rooms, server rooms, storage for medicines and biologicals.
- Multiple sites, each with its own technicians or maintenance contractor.
The problem
- Issues happen when no one is on shift: who knows, who fixes?
- Storage fridges drift outside 2–8°C without anyone noticing in time.
- Equipment-room incidents: hard to prove whether cooling or power was the cause.
- Incident information scattered across logbooks and messages.
For: Operations heads of clinic and diagnostic chains · Hospital facilities management · Technical leads
Cost & risk
- Scans and appointments disrupted when equipment rooms overheat.
- Medicines and biologicals discarded when storage temperature goes out of range.
- Missing records when explaining incidents to regulators or equipment suppliers.
Why current approaches fall short
- Periodic logbook checks don't give continuous data per unit.
- Alerts by phone or message can't be tracked until the fix is done.
- Manufacturer systems only monitor their own equipment; they don't see cooling, power or storage.
What BenKon does
Every issue goes through three steps — it doesn't stop at an alert.
01
Detect
24/7 monitoring of air conditioning, temperature and humidity in equipment and server rooms, storage fridges and energy; early signs such as fridge defrost cycles getting longer.
IssueUnit 3 · outside operating limit
02
Assign & track
Alerts reach the technician on duty; if not handled in time, the manager is notified. Air conditioners running after hours switch off automatically where permitted.
Task #128In progressAssigned technician
Assigned
In progress
Awaiting check
03
Verify
Measurements are taken again after the fix to confirm temperature and power are back within range; incidents are recorded and reported per site and per unit.
VerifiedBack within range
Equipment managed
At each air conditioner: metered at the breaker, controlled like a remote
A clamp meter sits after the breaker in the distribution board — no cutting circuits, no opening the unit. An infrared controller near the indoor unit works like a remote, so installation is quick and the manufacturer's warranty is unaffected.
Equipment rooms: monitoring only, no interference with medical equipment
Clamp meters on the breakers of imaging equipment and equipment-room cooling; the BenKon enclosure sits outside the board. Power over time flows to the platform with alerts on anomalies — and serves as evidence when finding the cause of an incident.
Equipment-room board
BenKon enclosure
mounted outside the board
Imaging equipment
42.8 kW
● Running
Equipment-room AC
12.5 kW
● Running
Monitoring only — no control of medical equipment.
Typical scenario: a 2–8°C storage fridge
Defrost cycles getting longer are often an early sign of an iced-up evaporator, fan or heater problem — before the temperature passes 8°C. BenKon alerts on this early sign, assigns the task to the owner and verifies once the temperature is back in range.
Storage temperature, 24 hours (°C)
2–8°C range
Defrost duration per cycle (minutes)
Alert threshold 30 minutes
Detect21:40
Defrost ran 42 minutes; temperature 9.4°C.
Assign & track21:41
Technician and fridge owner alerted; manager after 15 minutes.
Verify22:30
Back within 2–8°C; time above range recorded.
How to start
Scope with BenKon: critical equipment, areas to monitor, thresholds and alert recipients.
Visibility & control: 24/7 data, schedules, automatic after-hours switch-off where permitted.
Resolution: alerts to the right person, escalation when overdue, verification after the fix.
Roll-out: one standard configuration for the next sites.
Beyond air conditioning
Next step
BenKon discusses the customer's current equipment, operating goals and the right deployment scope.