FoodHorizon continues to develop products that can be used by all levels of the food industry.  The premier system is Sentry9000  that puts a Virtual Manager on the process floor to gather data from all aspects of food manufacturing.  Coordination from the Farm to the Fork or from the Sea to the Spoon of data collection and information management to provide a paper-free, error-free operation.  The Centurion system was developed for the smaller food manufacturer and provides many of the same features of Sentry9000, but all data is transferred via the Internet to a server at FoodHorizon for analysis and storage, rather than having a server on-site like the Sentry9000 system.  FoodHorizon has now taken data collection and information management one step farther.  There are many smaller food processors that only want to remove the paperwork from the clipboards, file cabinets and file storage boxes that mark the landscape of their plant.  Sentry-in-a-Box removes all that paper and paraphernalia associated with paper record keeping..  

Sentry-in-a-Box takes your current forms and converts them into digitized forms accessed on a handheld PDA.  Every single sheet of paper that was on the process floor is now in a handheld PDA.  The data is sent either immediately to a server for analysis and storage, or is sent on a delay by synchronization of the PDA.  The two methods are based on the presence of high speed Internet access or dial-up Internet access, respectively, at the facility.

 The data is analyzed and sent via the Internet to a web browser that can be accessed for review.  Alarms and alerts are still in the system.  If pre-set limits are surpassed, email, cell phone and email pagers will be called as well as automatic Corrective Action forms popping up on the handheld and homepage.  The data is available at virtual Real-Time with high speed access and immediately after synchronization with dial-up access.

There is all the information you collect daily at your fingertips.  It can include Sanitation Pre-Ops, Receiving data, Food Safety HACCP data, Temperature data, Quality attribute data, Laboratory results, Production data, Shipping data and more.  All the papers go away.

Sentry-in-a-Box is very inexpensive and is very easy to operate.  We have been able to make it inexpensive because we do not travel to your facility to sell it to you, we do not come back to install it and train you and your employees.  We do all that via the telephone, the fax machine and the Internet.

After we exchange forms and information for your processes and develop the PDA forms we will put the PDA and the Bluetooth Temperature Probe along with an 802.11 wireless access point or a Bluetooth modem, depending on your Internet connectivity, in a BOX and send it to you.  You will receive instructions and telephone assistance on setting up the Internet connectivity access that fits your needs.  There will be detailed written and verbal instructions for using the PDA and temperature probe and a WebEx demonstration will be used for explaining the home page.  You can be using it the same day you receive it.

The Return on Investment will be days or weeks instead of months or years.  The copy machine will last longer.  Paper costs are only for product sales invoices, not process data.  You do not have a stack of papers on your desk to review each and every production day.  Our system reviews the data for you and tells it when it is outside of the limits you have pre-set.  How much is that one item alone worth to you?  Throw away those notebooks full of paper.  Throw away those file cabinets.  Throw away those white, file storage boxes.  More importantly, throw away the concern that you missed a notation that was out of limits.  That does not happen.

Today is December 15, 2004.  Today, Sentry-in-a-Box retails for $2,750 with a $75 a month service fee for 2005, and that service fee is free the first 90 days.  You do the math.  Give yourself a Christmas present.