Patent ID: 11908087
Assignee: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A productivity tool for an analytical laboratory having a plurality of laboratory instrument(s), the productivity tool comprising:
a control unit communicatively connectable to one or more laboratory instrument(s) of a first group;
one or more surveillance device(s) external to the laboratory instrument(s) arranged to capture one or more external surveillance stream(s) of one or more of a second group of laboratory instrument(s), the external surveillance data stream(s) independent of the one or more laboratory instruments of the second group; and
a lab monitoring interface, wherein the control unit is configured to:
receive one or more internal data stream(s) from the laboratory instrument(s) of the first group and one or more external surveillance stream(s) of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group, the internal data stream(s) comprising data indicative of an operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the first group, process the internal data stream(s) from the laboratory instrument(s) of the first group to extract the operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the first group,
process the external surveillance stream(s) of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group to detect an operational status of one or more laboratory instrument(s) of the second group,
output the operational status of any one of the laboratory instrument(s) of the first group via the lab monitoring interface,
output the operational status of any one of the laboratory instrument(s) of the output the operational status of any one of the laboratory instrument(s) of the second group via the lab monitoring interface;
wherein the one or more surveillance device(s) comprises a thermal imaging camera configured to capture a thermal image of one or more of the second group of laboratory instrument(s) and wherein the control unit is configured to analyze images from the thermal imaging camera to determine an operational temperature of at least a part of the laboratory instrument(s) to determine the operational status of a laboratory instrument in order to distinguish between a normal and abnormal operational status of the laboratory instrument(s).