Technology
ControlByWeb
Industry
Food and Beverage
Client
KFC
Country
Hazmieh, Lebanon
Goals
- Monitor freezers and chillers temperature to avoid food waste
- Monitoring electricity consumption and receive alerts in case of electricity outage
- Reduce energy costs
- Historical data log of temperature and energy consumption
Challenges
- Freezers and chillers compressors failures
- Freezers and chillers doors remain open for more than 30 minutes during restocking
- Unscheduled electricity outage
- Failure of auxiliary electric UPS backup system
Solutions
- ControlbyWeb X-404: Modbus RS485 & Temperature Gateway to log and monitor the data received from Elite 444 meter and the three 1-wire temperature sensors installed in the chillers and freezer
- Modbus RS485 Class 1 smart meter: Modbus RS485 Class 1 electric meter with three current transformers (CTs) to measure all parameters of electric consumption and power quality
- ControlbyWeb X-600: Secure controller with built-in server used to aggregate and visualize the system data points with widgets, gauges, graphs, trends, and drill down webpages for further data analysis
Results
- Food safety and compliance with health regulations
- Prevent equipment failures and downtime
- Establish a baseline for energy consumption
Design, configure, and install a pilot system for a multinational restaurant which monitors its energy consumption and logs the temperatures of its freezers and chillers.
The system has the following features:
- Provide real time values of all electric parameters like daily and total electric consumption (kWh), electric power (kW), 3 phase currents and voltages, power quality, power factor
- Monitor and store all electric parameters
- Avoid food waste by monitoring and storing temperature of two chillers and one freezer
- Provide a dashboard to access all stored data with graphs and trends of historical data
- Provide edge logic and algorithm to monitor how many times the chillers and freezer were open for more than 30 minutes per day and log that data
- Data analysis with drill down capability to analyze stored data
- No monthly cloud fees
- System requires a username and password to login
