Erasmus MC Central Biobank: millions of samples under one watch
Hundreds of scattered ultralow freezers became one central facility, and one monitoring picture across the whole campus.
- Construction started
- February 2020
- Samples per freezer
- Up to 164,640
- Sensors on campus
- Around 3,000
From hundreds of freezers to one facility
Construction of the central freezer facility started in February 2020. Hundreds of ultralow freezers spread across the campus were consolidated into Nordic freezers, each holding up to 164,640 samples.
Consolidation concentrates value. The same move that makes storage manageable also makes a single failure far more consequential.
What the watch covers
Every freezer has temperature and door sensors, with a direct link to the cooling compressors so the cause of a temperature change is visible alongside the change itself.
OQ and PQ temperature studies were performed to establish exactly how long the facility holds under failure conditions. Around 3,000 sensors are now monitored across the Erasmus MC campus.
"With the temperature studies performed we have the peace of mind that even with big calamities we have up to 24 hours until the temperature inside our freezers reaches -60 °C."
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