Case Study: UCSF automates cryo-EM lab monitoring with Losant

UCSF - Customer Case Study

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) required a solution to automate the monitoring of its cryo-electron microscopy lab. Manually checking conditions for the lab's two highly sensitive and valuable microscopes was inefficient and risky. Dr. David Agard sought a platform that could provide automated alerts and customized dashboards to protect this critical research equipment.

Using the Losant Enterprise IoT Platform, UCSF implemented a condition-based maintenance system. The Losant solution automatically monitors equipment, switches liquid nitrogen tanks when low, and sends immediate email and text alerts for any faults or environmental changes. This has eliminated unnecessary manual checks, ensured the $10 million worth of microscopes operate in ideal conditions, and laid the foundation for further IoT asset monitoring in the lab.

UCSF

David Agard

Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics