Phizzle and GlassHouse Deliver Managed Service to Automate Cleanroom Monitoring

PaaS Brings Scale to Remote, Real-Time Status of Environmental Conditions

Key Takeaways

  • Phizzle and GlassHouse provide a flexible way to automate cleanroom monitoring
  • PaaS for remote monitoring of air quality in cleanrooms “shatters” price barrier for smaller operators and universities
  • The Cleanroom PaaS offers four benefits in an affordable model

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2021 -- Phizzle and GlassHouse Systems of Toronto today announced a managed service offering that provides a flexible way to automate cleanroom monitoring and enable remote, real-time operations of environmental equipment used in R&D and manufacturing cleanrooms by both large and small organizations.  

Phizzle is a pioneer in automating scientific devices such as particle counters used in pharmaceutical manufacturing to monitor environmental conditions in drug production; GHS is a leading enterprise IT services and infrastructure solutions provider. The two companies are working in partnership with IDSC to deploy a remote environmental monitoring solution for the Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute at the University of Miami.

”Phizzle and GHS have shattered the test and trust paradigm for cleanroom validation by leveraging their proven technology to create a cleanroom monitoring managed service that allows us to automate testing and remotely monitor the status of our cleanroom in real-time,” said Dr. Sung Jin Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the facilities director for the BioNIUM cleanroom facility.  “We believe that this best-in-class monitoring solution will substantially bolster our ability to drive industry partnerships and student opportunities.”

Due to the high cost of lab technicians to manually perform repeated air quality measurements, many smaller cleanroom operators struggle to economically perform consistent or real-time tests of environmental conditions; many are also challenged by the high cost of compliance requirements for ISO standards.

“The breakthrough of this offer is the ability of all sized cleanrooms to access real time scientific data that validates successful cleanroom processes or experiments at an affordable price,” said Robert Moniz, President, GlassHouse Systems, US. “There’s no longer a need to see testing as something that is only affordable on an annual or semi-annual basis.”

Automated Cleanroom Platform as a Service

Phizzle Software and GHS’ Automated Cleanroom PaaS provide an economical solution and is based on Phizzle’s EDGMaker IoT solution. By automating particle counter operation for consistent intervals, and providing the ability to remotely initiate ad-hoc measurements, cleanrooms can be effectively and economically monitored in real time. 

The Cleanroom PaaS offers four benefits in an affordable model:

  1. The ability to demonstrate evidence of the environmental state at the time of a process or experience.
  2. The ability to monitor the effect of processes and personnel on air quality in real-time and respond to maintain optimal room quality.
  3. The ability to perform proactive maintenance in response to declining air quality to prevent special events that cause errors or downtime.
  4. Increased use and engagement of university cleanrooms by outside parties due to the implementation of best-in-class monitoring solutions.

“Our joint managed service with GHS makes it possible for smaller companies and university labs to access the same industrial-grade technologies used in pharmaceutical manufacturing by the largest companies in the world,” said Jeff Cristee, Phizzle Chief Revenue Officer. 

For more information on Phizzle and GHS' Managed Service Partnership, please reach out to Jeff Cristee, Phizzle Chief Revenue Officer.


Phizzle’s EDGMaker is the only IoT solution to remotely operate and automate multi-vendor particle counters for scientific data applications. The EDGMaker software stack offers fully digitized testing and compliance processes to reduce labor, human error, and wasted batches in regulated manufacturing.

For over 26 years, GlassHouse Systems (GHS) has been designing, implementing and servicing the enterprise IT community with best in class mission-critical infrastructure and professional services. GHS offers fully managed IaaS, PaaS both in the cloud and on premise. GHS’ clientele represent industry leaders across all major industries.

Key Takeaways

  • Phizzle and GlassHouse provide a flexible way to automate cleanroom monitoring
  • PaaS for remote monitoring of air quality in cleanrooms “shatters” price barrier for smaller operators and universities
  • The Cleanroom PaaS offers four benefits in an affordable model

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Jeff Cristee
Chief Revenue Officer, Phizzle
Jeff is the company’s Chief Revenue Officer and brings world-class sales leadership experience to Phizzle. As Vice President of Cisco’s Sales Training and Development for almost a decade, Jeff and his team both hired and trained an entire generation of Cisco sellers.

Passionate about spending time with and listening to customers, Jeff Cisco's lead executive sponsor to some of the largest global companies in Pharmaceuticals, Hospitality, Retail, and Health Care. He also has served as Cisco Executive Sponsor for the Country of Finland.

Prior to this role, Jeff was an Area Sales Vice President for the US Commercial Central Organization. This is a 13-state geography in the Midwestern United States with a Cisco revenue target of over $1.5 Billion. Jeff joined Cisco as part of their acquisition of Stratacom in 1996, and has been leading teams across the US in Public, Fortune 500, and Commercial Business sectors.

Very active in economic development at the state and regional levels, Jeff is the founder and former chairman of the Tailwind Group, a program that identified and assisted high potential start-up companies and facilitated their rapid growth. He is also past Chairman of the Technical Advisory Boards of Marian College and The Orchard School. Jeff graduated from Indiana University with a BS in Finance in 1985.
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Robert Moniz, P.Eng.
President, GlassHouse Systems, US
As President of GlassHouse Systems US, Robert leads a dynamic team of sales and technical professionals focused on delivering exceptional client experiences. Joining GlassHouse in 2007 as VP Sales for Canada, Robert helped diversify the company’s product offerings and recruit key personnel enabling GlassHouse Canada to become of Canada’s leading enterprise IT solution providers. Having led GlassHouse as President and General Manager since 2016, Robert is now focused on developing the US line of business. Robert holds bachelors’ degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Sociology.
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Dr. Sung Jin Kim
Associate Professor, University of Miami
Dr. Sung Jin Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and jointly appointed in the Department of Pathology. He is also an affiliated member of Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute of University of Miami (BioNIUM). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2008. He is a member of IEEE, HKN(Etta Kappa Nu) and senior member of SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics).

Since he joined UM in 2010, he has significantly contributed to the BioNIUM cleanroom facility for nano/micro device fabrication, and this core facility plays an important role to initiate interdisciplinary collaborative researches in UM. He is currently the director of the BioNIUM nanofabrication facility. Dr. Kim’s research focuses on Nanophotonics for energy and sensing applications. He uses engineered nanostructures and novel nanomaterials for novel optoelectronic devices.
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