Novanex PoE Clocks: The Ultimate Solution for Accurate and Efficient Timekeeping

Precise and synchronized timekeeping plays a crucial role in education, healthcare, manufacturing, and corporate settings. Novanex meets this demand with its advanced Power over Ethernet (PoE) clocks, delivering a combination of accuracy, reliability, and energy efficiency.

Novanex PoE clocks are designed to receive both power and time data through a single Ethernet connection. This integration eliminates the need for separate electrical outlets or master clocks, simplifying installation and reducing maintenance efforts. By connecting to your existing network infrastructure, these clocks ensure consistent and accurate time synchronization across all devices.

Key Features and Benefits

  1. Accurate Time Synchronization: By utilizing network time servers or an available reliable public time source, Novanex PoE clocks maintain time accuracy within 200 milliseconds, ensuring uniformity across all connected devices.
  2. Easy Installation and Maintenance: The PoE technology allows for straightforward installation without the need for electrical outlets at each clock’s location. Maintenance is simplified, as power and data are delivered via standard network cabling.
  3. Energy Efficiency: Operating on low power consumption, these clocks can be backed up using a centralized Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), ensuring continuous operation even during power outages.
  4. Versatile Design Options: Novanex offers a range of clock designs to suit various environments:

Analog Clocks: Classic design ideal for traditional settings.

4-Digit Digital Clocks: Clear time display suitable for most applications.

6-Digit Digital Clocks: Includes seconds display, perfect for settings where precise time measurement is critical.

Clean Room Clocks: Designed for environments requiring frequent cleaning, such as laboratories and food processing areas.


Applications Across Industries

Educational Institutions:
By providing accurate, synchronized timekeeping across classrooms and common areas, these clocks ensure smooth class transitions, minimizing disruptions and maximizing instructional time. They also support standardized testing by ensuring precise time tracking, helping students and educators follow strict schedules. Their reliability enhances campus coordination, improving punctuality and time management.

Healthcare Facilities:
Ensuring precise time synchronization in hospitals and clinics, these clocks support critical operations like medication administration and medical procedures. Accurate timekeeping helps nurses follow strict dosing schedules and reduces errors. They also enhance staff coordination during surgeries, diagnostics, shift changes, and record-keeping, promoting efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Manufacturing Plants:
With synchronized, accurate timekeeping across the facility, these clocks help employees adhere to shift schedules, breaks, and production deadlines. This reduces downtime, bottlenecks, and delays while improving workflow coordination. Accurate time tracking also enhances efficiency by keeping machine operations, quality control, and maintenance on schedule, ultimately boosting productivity and cost savings.

Corporate Offices:
Maintains a professional and efficient work environment by providing synchronized timekeeping across all departments, helping employees stay on schedule and reducing discrepancies that cause missed deadlines or delays. Accurate time tracking enhances time management, workplace discipline, and workflow coordination, supporting smooth collaboration, timely meetings, and efficient project execution. Whether in workspaces, meeting rooms, or break areas, Novanex clocks foster a punctual and productive corporate environment.

Management and Monitoring

Administrators can manage multiple clocks through simple telnet sessions or web-based interfaces, allowing for remote monitoring and configuration. The intuitive interface makes it easy to adjust settings, synchronize time, and troubleshoot issues from a central location. The system also supports email alerts for any connectivity issues, ensuring prompt attention to potential problems and minimizing downtime. With these features, organizations can maintain accurate and efficient timekeeping without the need for constant manual intervention.

Novanex PoE clocks provide a reliable and efficient solution for synchronized timekeeping across various industries. With short lead times, you can quickly implement these high-quality clocks into your facility. Contact a sales representative today for a free consultation and discover how Novanex can streamline your timekeeping needs.

Synchronized Clocks – What System is Best for my Organization

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Virtually every enterprise can benefit from synchronized time displays, clocks that all display the same correct time. But which system is best for your organization?

There are many options to pick from, depending on your industry and the number of displays required, but which system is best for your organization?

Large Environments



In large environmentslike hospitals, manufacturing facilities, and large offices a wireless clock system may be a good option.This type of system includes a Master Clock that can synchronize to any NTP Server or its own GPS time input. The Master Clock will then generate and transmit its own wireless time signal (900 Mhz) to every clock in all directions and between floors.To ensure each clock can receive the time signal each clock should be able to receive the time signal and then repeat this in all directions, creating a strong mesh network

Small Environment/Office

For smaller facilities such as a small office, medical clinics, an investment in a master controller may not be warranted. In that case, Power over Ethernet (PoE) or Wi-Fi Network Clocks may be a better option.These clocks can connect to your master clock, or any other NTP time source, within your environment to ensure they all display the same time.

Upgrading an existing system



Many education facilities have pre-existing Sync-Wire clock systems. Some of the clocks may be failing, or the clock controller is not functioning correctly.For this we have a couple of options.

Sapling clocks are compatible with most name brand controllers, which allows you to directly replace your clocks. One of the disadvantages of a sync-wire system is the frequency of the time sync which is once every 12 hours. This means that in the event of a power outage or when adding or replacing clocks, it could take up to 12 hours for the clocks to display the correct time.

If your clock controller is failing or you would like to upgrade, you can install a hybrid master clock with a wireless transmitter that also supports your existing wired clocks. This is a cost effective option as you can upgrade your wired clocks to the newer wireless clocks as the older clocks fail or budget becomes available.

Clock Selection

Once you’ve selected your clock system, you’ll need to decide between analog and digital displays. Analog clocks may be designed with images or a logo and different sizes which makes them a good fit for waiting areas or other customer facing locations, whereas the brightness of digital clocks is helpful in places with low light areas.

Digital clocks can also come with enhanced functionality, such as an elapsed-timer that allows you to track how much time has gone by during a specific task. This can prove useful for meetings, timing events or time sensitive events like code blue in a hospital environment.

Clocks that Keep Everyone Safe and Informed



Your synchronized digital clocks can now do so much more, by bringing visual notifications to your facility especially in busy noisy environments. The OnAlert system is an advanced, powerful communication platform that during normal operation can present time of day but can be switched to a high priority message which replaces all other messages during times of crisis.

Considering your options contact us to discuss which is best for you

Synchronized Digital Clocks: Advantages and Considerations

When it comes to choosing clocks for your facility, you have a choice between digital or analog displays. Both styles have their merits, so it’s important to consider your needs and priorities. Here’s a look at some key characteristics of digital clocks, that can help you decide what to use.

Easier to Read

Digital clocks are super easy to read at a glance. This makes them a great choice for large spaces like gyms, auditoriums, or open floor plans where you need people to be able to tell time from far away. A 4-inch digital display can be read clearly from over 250 feet. You can also choose between different colours Red, Green, Amber or White.


Sapling Synchronized Digital Clock in School Setting

Low Light Rooms

Digital clocks are better suited for dark rooms or rooms with dim lighting, like auditoriums during presentations. No need to strain your eyes – digital clocks glow bright so everyone can keep track of time even when other lights go down.

When Seconds Count

Digital clocks are precise down to the second. This is handy when seconds really count, like during exams, a time sensitive production process, or critical medical procedure. No more estimating – everyone will know exactly how much time is left.

Advanced Features

Digital clocks can accomplish some additional features that analog clocks cannot. You can use a digital clock as an elapsed timer to help everyone track how much time has passed. This can be invaluable to monitor medical procedure time, keep students moving between classes or help manufacturing gain visibility into task durations to improve efficiency.

Messaging System

Digital clock can also be used to display messages, this can provide an important messaging capability. During normal operation the clock can display accurate time and switch to mass message capability across your facility for critical alerts or general messaging. Message clock systems can bring visual notification to your facility, especially in busy noisy environments like hallways, lobbies, gymnasiums, stairwells, or office spaces.

Budget

Of course, digital clocks usually cost more than analog. Be sure to consider your budget, especially if outfitting an entire building. Analog clocks have a classic esthetic look. So weigh technology needs versus style preferences.

In the end, digital clocks offer unbeatable readability and functionality in most situations. Just account for the potential higher price tag. Now you have what you need to choose the display format that’s right for your facility!