Capture
It reads the state variables of the sensor network connected to the device.
Own product
Interfaz Q
It monitors, controls and doses fluids and gases. It identifies whoever operates it by fingerprint, is driven from its own touchscreen, and keeps working when the link goes down.
What it solves
Meeting a regulation is one thing. Proving it is another.
Since the amendment to Decree 594, every camp located above 3,000 metres must provide permanent oxygenation and humidification that simulate environmental conditions below that altitude, to mitigate altitude sickness while workers sleep.
The regulation creates the obligation but does not solve how to prove compliance, shift after shift. That is what Interfaz Q exists for: it controls the gas, records what happens, and lets the operation be managed remotely, with traceability of who intervened and when.
What it does
One device, six capabilities.
Control and dosing
It acts on the equipment it interacts with, dosing fluids and gases according to what the sensors report.
Biometric identification
A fingerprint sensor identifies the operator before allowing any intervention. Every action is tied to a person.
Touch interface
It is operated from its own LCD touchscreen, on site, with no computer and no connection in between.
Remote monitoring
A companion web system allows sensor values to be supervised and managed from a distance.
Offline operation
Semi-autonomous by design: it keeps running even if the link drops. At altitude, that is not a luxury.
Where it applies
It was born in high-altitude mining. It does not stay there.
The device was designed from the outset as a cross-industry product: what it does — capture variables, decide, and act on a fluid or a gas — serves any process where something has to be dosed and that dosing has to be proven.
Industries
- Mining, especially high-altitude sites and camps
- Maritime and ports
- Construction
- Metalworking
Why this device
- Capture from multiple sensors at a single point
- Direct touch interaction on the device
- Biometric authentication of the operator
- Remote monitoring over the web
- Real actuation, not just readings
That full combination in a single device is what sets Interfaz Q apart from telemetry products that only measure and report.
How it got here
Three prototypes and two awarded grants.
The current version is the result of three successive prototypes. Each iteration refined the previous one with an explicit goal: that the device should not solve only the specific need that prompted its development, but serve across industries.
The control engineering was developed in phases, with a documented assessment at the close of each: a comparison matrix of PLC platforms, fieldbus evaluation, electrical drawings, wiring tables and per-component unit test protocols. The development backed two grants from Sercotec, Chile's small-business development agency: Capital Semilla in 2014, for the gas measurement and oxygen injection control hardware, and Capital Crece in 2015, for the altitude oxygen injection web system.
Let's talk
Do you have a process to dose and to certify?
Interfaz Q adapts to the instrumentation of each site. Tell us what you need to control and what you have to be able to prove.