
THE StatIQ ARM BAND: THE FIRST WEARABLE BODY VOLTAGE MONITOR
The StatIQ band is the first ESD voltage tester to be worn on the user with no tethers, providing flexibiity and unrestricted movement. Both a voltage tester and field meter, the StatIQ band is ideal for EMS, SMT, data centers, server and IDF rooms, cleanrooms, high-tech labs, and mission-critical spaces.
Introducing the StatIQ Arm Band by Iona Tech. This innovative new arm band monitors body voltage while you work, offering a first-of-its-kind ESD protection for EMS, SMT, data centers, server and IDF rooms, cleanrooms, high-tech labs, and mission-critical spaces.
The StatIQ band can detect ESD events as low as a 100 V discharge with accuracy to 10 V. An audible built-in alarm alerts you when a threshold has been exceeded, so you always know if your static-control flooring system is working as intended. A mobile app helps you to visualize voltage data and allows you to change parameters on the StatIQ band.
“No matter how much you think you know about ESD, you will learn more wearing a StatIQ Band.”
ESD manager using StatIQ bands in a chip manufacturing facility
Key Features and Benefits
1. Reliable Diagnostics
- Works as both a walking body voltage test and static field meter. The wireless band makes it easy to audit an entire facility with one walkthrough – to test a flooring installation or conduct audits in an operational facility.
- Aggregates data from multiple users: An IoT backend aggregates data and stores it in a cloud, affording visibility of the body voltage of multiple operators.
2. Real-Time Charge Monitoring and Instant Feedback
- Tether-free ESD protection: The band’s built-in charge monitor detects charges while the wearer works, assessing effectiveness of the ESD mitigation system.
- The StatIQ Arm Band continuously monitors static charges on the body and provides instant feedback to ensure that people remain grounded and that electrostatic charges on the body are within acceptable range.
3. Complies with ESD Standards
- ANSI/ESD S20.20, IEC 61340-5-1, and other industry standards.
4. Audible Alert
- Automatic Alerts: An integrated alert system notifies users if the band becomes disconnected or detects unsafe charge levels, ensuring uninterrupted compliance.
Applications
StatIQ Arm Band offers versatile protection across a variety of industries and applications, including:
- Data Centers: Protecting critical servers and networking equipment from potential ESD events, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
- Electronics Manufacturing: Ideal for assembly line workers who handle sensitive electronic components, reducing the risk of static damage.
- High-Tech Labs: Used in lab environments where static-sensitive equipment is essential to healthcare innovation and precision.
- Cleanrooms: Its portability makes the StatIQ ideal for electronics and biotech labs.
Part of a Complete ESD System
Combined with StaticWorx ESD flooring, footwear, and seating, StatIQ arm bands provide a total ESD protection package, ensuring that personnel, equipment, and facilities are monitored and fully protected. Bands can also be used throughout the building to ensure ongoing compliance with ESD protocols in the EPA.
For more information, or to request a demo call us today: 617-923-2000.
Description and Specifications
Description
The StatIQ Band measures the wearer’s body voltage with no tethers or wires, giving them complete mobility to move around the workplace.
When a preset voltage is exceeded, the Band emits an audible alarm indicating that it is unsafe to handle sensitive electronics or travel in explosive environments.
If a discharge to sensitive equipment does occur, the StatIQ Band identifies the ESD event and logs it in the back end for analysis.
Specifications
- Voltage accuracy: 10V
- Minimum ESD event (ΔV): 100V
- Battery Life: 16 hours
- Bluetooth Range: 30m
- Weight: 92g
- Size: 88x62x25mm
Mobile App
The integrated mobile app allows the user to visualize voltage data and change parameters, such as alarm threshold and volume.
- Collect real-time voltage measurements from the StatIQ Band over Bluetooth.
- Assess voltage history with various time scales
- Enable alarms
- Change voltage alarm thresholds and volumes
- Download time history of voltage and ESD data in CSV format for analysis
StatIQ Dashboard
- Collect real-time voltage measurements from all StatIQ Bands over Bluetooth and aggregate data for analysis in the cloud
- Log temperature and humidity data
- Record alarms when voltage exceeds programmable thresholds
- Log in from any browser to analyze StatIQ System data
- Set up email or SMS notifications with customizable alarm conditions
Case Study
A large chip manufacturer purchased StatIQ bands for ongoing monitoring of ESD compliance across their facility. With data from the bands they were able to locate sources of charge generation in their ESD Protected Areas (EPA). By removing the charge generators, they progressively reduced the alarm thresholds from 500V to 250V to 100V.
The ESD manager had this to say:
“This system has paid for itself many times over, we’ve had at least 5 institutional learnings about our ESD controls.”
“You’ve changed the paradigm of ESD control.”
FAQs
The StatIQ band’s sensor is an electric field mill, the smallest and most accurate of its kind, which allows it to be packaged in a wearable device. The principles of electrostatics dictate that the electric field on the surface of a conductor is proportional to the underlying charge density. Therefore, the E-field measurement is always a measure of charge on the arm, whether generated by the user or from induced charge effects (by standing next to a charged object).
By definition, voltage is measured relative to a point of reference (it is a difference in potential). Electrostatic charge, however, is an absolute quantity that doesn’t require a reference. The StatIQ Band measures the local charge on the arm of the user. This charge is extrapolated to the total charge on the body, then divided by the body’s self-capacitance to determine voltage. This conversion is valid in the absence of nearby charged objects.
StatIQ Band measurements have been meticulously compared to body voltage measurements from industry standard charge plate monitors. Except under certain circumstances, these measurements agree to within 10% for a wide range of body geometries.
The StatIQ Band’s sensor has <10V equivalent RMS noise, and <20V drift per day (drift can be corrected by zero’ing the device with the included zero disc).
The localized charge on insulating fabrics near the StatIQ Band creates false readings when the local E-field measurement is translated to body voltage. Example: The user might be at 100V body voltage, but wearing a polyester shirt, the StatIQ Band measures 1000V because of the local charge near the Band. Also, ESD event detection is suppressed, because charge stays on the insulating shirt even if there is a grounding event on the body.
We haven’t exhaustively tested all fabrics, but have found that pure cotton clothing gives accurate results to within 100V because it doesn’t hold a lot of local charge compared to nylon or polyester.
The onboard LiPo battery provides up to 20 hours of run time. It may be recharged in 1 hour via the USB-C cable, much like your cell phone.
The reference for the field mill measurement is really the user’s body. The StatIQ Band measures the electric field coming off the body that results when static charge is present. This relationship holds whether or not the body is electrically connected to Earth ground.
There are two scenarios in which the relationship between E-field and body voltage breaks down. If the user is naturally charged and stands close to a grounded object, the charge distribution on the body will be asymmetric and the voltage measurement from the StatIQ Band will be slightly higher or lower than the actual voltage. However, the polarity is always correct, and zero charge means zero voltage.
Second, if the user stands near a charged insulator, the charged object will induce a charge on the body even if it is grounded, and the StatIQ Band will detect this. Just remember that a non-zero voltage measurement from the StatIQ Band always indicates the presence of charge on the user, which should be considered an ESD concern.
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