A Simple and Low-Cost Monitoring System to Investigate Environmental Conditions in a Biological Research Laboratory.
A Simple and Low-Cost Monitoring System to Investigate Environmental Conditions in a Biological Research Laboratory.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0147140
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发表时间：
2016
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3.7
通讯作者：
Ungrin M
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作者：
Gurdita A;Vovko H;Ungrin M
培养和冷藏系统等基本设备在传统生物研究实验室的几乎所有方面都起着关键作用。因此，它们的正常运行对于确保可靠和可重复的实验结果至关重要。尽管如此，在许多学术实验室很少注意验证和监测其功能，主要是由于现有商业解决方案的成本和/或技术复杂性。因此，我们开发了一种简单且低成本的监控系统，该系统将“Raspberry Pi”单板计算机与USB连接的传感器接口相结合，以跟踪和记录温度和压力等参数，并酌情发送电子邮件警报消息。该系统由开源软件控制，我们还生成了脚本来自动设置软件，因此无需编程背景即可安装和使用它。我们应用它来调查我们自己的设备的行为，并在这里沿着结果以及用于获得结果的监控系统的详细信息。
Basic equipment such as incubation and refrigeration systems plays a critical role in nearly all aspects of the traditional biological research laboratory. Their proper functioning is therefore essential to ensure reliable and repeatable experimental results. Despite this fact, in many academic laboratories little attention is paid to validating and monitoring their function, primarily due to the cost and/or technical complexity of available commercial solutions. We have therefore developed a simple and low-cost monitoring system that combines a “Raspberry Pi” single-board computer with USB-connected sensor interfaces to track and log parameters such as temperature and pressure, and send email alert messages as appropriate. The system is controlled by open-source software, and we have also generated scripts to automate software setup so that no background in programming is required to install and use it. We have applied it to investigate the behaviour of our own equipment, and present here the results along with the details of the monitoring system used to obtain them.