Alegria^® by ORGENTEC Diagnostika | SMC^® Technology

Test strips with SMC^® Technology

SysTray

Incubation chamber

SMC^® Technology

• Each Monotest strip with SMC^® Technology (Sensotronic Memorized Calibration) includes a complete set of reagents for testing the individual sample.
• By means of SMC^® Technology, all test data are transferred to the system through individual barcodes.
• The SMC^® coding comprises information about the respective product names, a lot-specific and complete standard curve, limit values for the internal cut-off control and its expiry date.
• This information technology guarantees that only tests meeting most challenging quality requirements are implemented.
• Expired test strips are refused by the system.

Sample and reagent management

• Each of the three system trays (SysTray A, B, C) can be loaded with up to ten patient/sample strips.
• Within one single analytical step up to 30 different samples can be tested for individual parameters.
• Each test strip includes two wells for sample handling, two incubation wells for the patient sample and the cut-off control, and a complete set of reagents, including sample buffer, conjugate, substrate and internal cut-off control.
• All reagents are stored in airtight containers and are opened immediately before use in the test. External influence and contamination are thus excluded.

Incubation unit

• Inside the temperature-controlled incubation unit, all processes take place under strictly standardised conditions.
• System start-up is only initiated when the predetermined climate conditions are reached so that the overall efficiency of the system and test results cannot be influenced by external climatic conditions.
• Preparations for reloading the system can be made on separate system trays (SysTray A, B, C) while the system is still running a previous test, which makes the system enormously flexible and maximises sample throughput.
• Within the incubation unit, when the system settings have been reached, the test-specific parameters for each reagent strip are read off based on SMC^® Technology and assigned to the corresponding sample.