A building2building system consists of a pair of Transceiver units connected by a pipe. Each Transceiver also has a pipe leading to either a lab2lab Sender unit, Collection Point or Router.
The Transceivers have a 90° indexing pneumatic rotor and are capable of sucking and blowing vials in either direction. Vial detection is by vacuum sensor.
Control of the Transceivers and communication with the external devices is handled by the
building2building software application (current version 1.5.2.9). This can be installed on any PC on the network. As with the lab2lab Director application, during normal operation no user input is required.