This workflow enables the automated, quality-assured consolidation of all device and sensor data required for laboratory processes directly into the LIMS—from sample receipt to the final invoice. At the same time, users are guided through each workflow step automatically. This reduces time, costs, and the risk of operating errors, such as missed time limits or incorrect process sequences.

In routine laboratories, recording and monitoring a wide variety of parameters is essential. However, consolidating and evaluating this data is often time-consuming and largely manual. This workflow streamlines this effort by harmonizing information automatically and with quality assurance, using the new OPC UA–based laboratory interface LADS (Laboratory and Analytical Device Standard) to transfer data directly into INTEGRIS iLIMS.

Even before the sample reaches the laboratory, its temperature is continuously monitored during transport using essentim Spot sensors. At the laboratory’s sample intake, this data is read via the LADS interface and merged with all other relevant information centrally in the iLIMS. During subsequent processing, environmental parameters such as temperature and humidity are continuously recorded by essentim Sphere sensors and transmitted wirelessly to the LIMS.

For online temperature measurement in liquids during sample processing, cherry-pit–sized wireless “Sens-o-Spheres,” developed at TU Dresden, offer an innovative data-acquisition solution. Weighing only 0.5 g, their data is also transferred to the iLIMS via LADS. Integrated actuators—such as the wear-free 2mag magnetic stirrer MIXdrive 15 with the MIXcontrol 20 control unit—are process-controlled through LADS and continuously report their operating status back to the LIMS.

After the experiment is completed, all results and monitoring data are stored in the system log, and the invoice is generated automatically.