The TetraScience Link (TetraScience Inc., Boston, Mass.; www.tetrascience.com) is a small Wi-Fi and ethernet-enabled hardware module that connects instruments and sensors to a centralized cloud-based software system. Data collected from the instruments facilitates remote monitoring (with alerts), remote control and data capture, promoting productivity, compliance and quality. Four USB ports allow each device to host up to four instruments or sensors at one time, and the TetraScience Link connects to a lab’s network using a laptop or mobile phone. Compatible with many different open protocols, it readily “bolts on” to lab devices.
Through a web-based dashboard, the TetraScience Link enables remote monitoring of instruments from devices such as a tablet.Via a web-based dashboard, experiments can be monitored remotely from anywhere, on any device, and all connected instruments can be controlled from a computer, tablet or phone. Data-logging tools collect time-series data automatically, so less time is spent on data entry. A mobile app provides alerts when sensors pick up anomalies. Modern security practices are leveraged, including multi-factor authentication and encryption.
TetraScience Link currently connects to over 35 instruments types—such as freezers, hotplates, ovens, incubators, balances, pumps and centrifuges— and a number of sensors (CO2, humidity, O2, airflow) from over 70 manufacturers. Users to date include drug development, organic synthesis and polymer chemistry labs. Some manufacturers are beginning to incorporate the Link into their initial instrument builds.
Users access a central data center in order to collect files, look at software, etc., in an infrastructure configuration that makes setup fast and inexpensive. The technology can be continuously updated and improved and new functions added.
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