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Mitigating Construction NOISE & VIBRATION

Effects on Animal Facilities

EFFLUENT DECONTAMINATION

THE MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS OF CHLORINE DIOXIDE GAS

IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE TO THE VIVARIUM?

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featuresSince You Asked: What effl uent decontamination issues do I need to consider when retrofi tting a biocontainment facility?Sebastien Dalmagne

The Myths and Misconceptions of Chlorine Dioxide GasKevin Lorcheim

Bring Your Own Device to the VivariumMike Moore

Cover Story: Mitigating Construction Noise and Vibration Effects on Animal Facilities Erik Mollo-Christensen, Marc S. Newmark, and Stephen Plouff

Cover Story:During recent construction of a new residential complex at UMass, it was imperative that the resulting noise and vibration not disrupt operations at the next-door vivarium. Image courtesy of Tsoi/Kobus and Associates.

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collaborations and communications will be more timely—they will happen more real-time and as shared collaborations in the cloud.

Pure mobility is also an obvious but sometimes overlooked benefi t. As the BYOD newsletter states, “we increasing-ly see continual, mobile access as a basic right.” The ability to be mobile means, whether you’re in an IACUC meeting, in the facility, or at soccer practice, you have the ability to work or not to work. No matter whether you choose to send that work text from home, you will at least be informed and empowered to triage work and home life issues simul-taneously. According to Cisco’s 2011 “Connected World Technology Report,” for one-third of the 2,800 U.S. students surveyed, device fl exibility, work mobili-ty, and access to social media were more important than salary.

Our IT departments will see a ben-efi t as well. According to the Forrester Report, they will see a reduction in capi-tal costs. No more clunky laptops to buy,

Consumerization of ITSo off to work you go in the morning carrying your smart device with its personalized fancy case, and as you walk in the door, you start receiving text messages from your cages. You text HC to a cage card, and a health case is created. You reply to a humane endpoint text, and have the protocol PDF on your device instantly. You scan a QR code on a hood, and the preventative main-tenance SOP opens up. And then from the same device, you call and book your next vacation. Your unifi ed inbox will have both personal and business e-mails, voicemails, tasks, and texts. This is the “consumerization of IT” where you are the consumer now, not just an end user.

Benefi tsThere are many benefi ts that will be realized as we reshape the way that we work using our own devices. We will start to unify our total experience as we blend and balance work and home life—managing both more effi ciently. Our

The mobility story is being written continuously around the world every second. There are more than fi ve billion

connected devices worldwide, and this will grow to be 15 billion by 2015. And we know this story personally.

Almost all of us own some sort of smart phone, iPad, tablet, or mobile device. We bring these little familiars with us everywhere, sometimes obsessive-ly monitoring for tweets, texts, e-mails, and other tidbits from the digital stream. You may have already integrated a little work noise onto your personal device; but for many, you’re still lugging around that locked down IT provided laptop—for some even on vacation.

In the future, your personal mobile device—the one that you love, understand, and have picked out for yourself—may become the only thing you care about, which may send your IT departments running for the hills as they prepare for you to bring your own device (BYOD) to the vivarium.

Mike Moore

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Sometimes it’s easier to just do work on your own mobile device, but is it a good idea?

fewer servers to buy as storage moves to the cloud, and reduced desktop support and training costs as most people already know how to use their own device. Some IT departments are predicting that in less than fi ve years, they won’t have to purchase any more desktops and many of their applications will be cloud based.

In our industry, I see a type of crowdsourcing starting to emerge, which will bring more eyes and visibility to animal care, compliance, and health concerns. More staff (lab and care) will be able to participate in the program by texting anomalies and information to digital watchdogs. I also see prompted text messaging applications starting to emerge which will guide you by text message through processes, complicated data gathering, and vivarium workfl ows.

At Massachusetts General Hospital, Information Systems Manager Mark Depathy has “implemented the use of Quick Response (QR) barcodes that the technicians or customers can scan with their device if they want to view a cer-tain document or send an e-mail to the appropriate staff.” Veterinarian Steven M. Niemi envisions the possibility of humane endpoint compliance capabil-ities where anyone in the lab can scan/text message a cage and receive accurate humane endpoint information particular to that cage’s protocol.

ChallengesWith the benefi ts come the issues, and as is true with most negatives, they are get-ting the most air time in the IT world. We have all heard of rogue laptops with people’s social security or credit cards on them that have gone missing from this company or that government agency, and that ranks as our number one IT issue as it relates to BYOD—the loss

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of sensitive information. For animal research, healthcare, and other regu-lated industries, the loss of intellectual property or sensitive digital information (like animal health case photos) can be especially damaging if lost or stolen.

This brings us right into the next concern, which is security. It’s important to ensure that transmissions are encrypt-ed; that your device won’t give other devices viruses; that competitors or other evil doers can’t steal your information, identity, or intellectual property; and that when people leave they don’t remain in custody of this digital information.

And to further complicate things, there are still legal questions looming about the ownership of the data on the devices. Be aware that inside many IT Personal Device Use Policies, they are asking you to give them the right to not only look on your personal devices, but wipe them clean as well—yes, all your personal pictures will be gone too.

Specifi c to our industry, a couple of real challenges of staff owned devices were brought up by Dr. Denice O’Connell and Dr. Jerald Silverman, both of University of Massachusetts Medical School, when I talked with them. Dr. O’Connell brought up the challenge of sanitization and photog-raphy, that “most of these devices are not sanitizable, so they would act as a potential fomite in an animal facility. In addition,

most animal facilities have confi denti-ality provisions that prohibit photo taking and sharing, unless solely used for research/publication purposes.” Dr. Silverman noted that “many vivaria are in basements with no routine phone signal,” and indi-cated that we would need to solve the connectivity problem that is particular to most vivaria.

The good news is that much security, networking,

software, and appliance companies are working on these issues. Companies like Cisco are creating “holistic approaches to context aware security,” and other networking companies and institutional IT departments are starting to make headway on wireless “dark spots.”

Got Applications?The really big question for our industry is: Do we have apps? Are they in the pipeline? Can I go to the iStore and download the latest vivarium app and have it work on my home device? The current answer is, “No.” But, I’m certain this will change to a “Yes” rather quickly. We will see the barriers of entry fade away as the demand, ideas, and the mil-lennial generation start taking over.

Almost all of the laboratory animal software vendors provide some sort of Web access and some sort of mobile device support. Additionally, there are many cloud apps like Google Docs and Microsoft’s Live Offi ce 365 that you can use to edit/store documents and spreadsheets on mobile devices. Remote Desktop technology can stream work desktop functionality on almost any mobile device, and I believe that will be a very useful tool in the BYOD space.

There are some technology compa-nies that are mixing Remote Desktop Stream and HTML5 in a hybrid fashion to bring a seamless experience of a virtu-alized application with a Web client.

So what should we do in the mean-time? If it was me, and it is, I would send a list of things I want my favorite LIMS vendor to do on my personal smart-phone, and say “build it.”

Additional Reading• Abraham, Don. “Staying Secure in

a BYOD Environment.” http://www.acrodex.com/staying-secure-in-a-byod-environment.

• Intel. “Powering the Cloud to Handle 15 Billion Connected De-vices.” http://newsroom.intel.com/community/en_uk/blog/2012/03/06/new-intel-server-technology-powering-the-cloud-to-handle-15-billion-connected-devices.

• “Good Technology State of BYOD Report.” http://www1.good.com/

resources/whitepapers.• Pelino, Michele. “Building the Busi-

ness Case For A Bring- Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Program.”

• “The Three (Surprising) Benefi ts of BYOD.” http://byod.us/the-three-surprising-benefi ts-of-byod.

Michael Moore is President of Digital Paradigms, Inc., the company that devel-oped the Animal Bioware Series II Soft-ware Suite. Michael has been automating vivaria and providing animal informatics solutions for the past 14 years. He can be reached at 617-723-9400 or mike@animalbioware.com.

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