Warehouse Temperature Monitoring System

Engineering & Marketing International
Technology

ControlByWeb

Industry

Logistics

Client

Eagle Eye Technology

Country

United Kingdom

Goals

Provide advanced automation and controls for warehouse temperature monitoring systems

Ensure precise temperature control for processes like avocado ripening in ripening rooms

Offer redundant monitoring and alarms to prevent costly mistakes

Challenges

Fine-tuning temperature control for the ripening process in avocado rooms

Balancing the demands of delaying ripening during shipping with the need for ripe fruit upon reaching end customers

Ensuring the reliability of temperature monitoring systems in diverse environments like food manufacturing plants, cold storage warehouses, and animal enclosures

Solutions

Utilize ControlByWeb's X-405 and X-406 modules for redundant temperature monitoring in warehouses, walk-in freezers, coolers, ripening rooms, and chill boxes

Implement ControlByWeb's X-410 for active control, enabling precise temperature adjustments

Leverage ControlByWeb to provide remote alarms and mobile phone access to real-time temperature data

Results

Successful implementation of ControlByWeb's X-405 and X-406 modules for redundant temperature monitoring, alarms,& remote visibility

Improved control of ripening processes in environments with valuable inventory

Enhanced accuracy in maintaining ripe states for stored avocados

Eagle Eye Technologies LLC is a systems integrator providing automation and controls to clients in industries such as Agriculture, Food & Beverage, Water & Wastewater, and more. They prefer our programmable I/O controllers for their warehouse temperature monitoring systems in a variety of environments, such as food manufacturing plants, cold storage warehouses, and even animal enclosures at the zoo.

One example of warehouse temperature monitoring and control is avocado ripening rooms. Avocados are picked before fully ripe to enable shipping to hungry customers throughout the world. Once picked, they're shipped and stored in temperature-controlled environments to delay ripening and ensure freshness.

The end customers, however, want ripe fruit. To satisfy both demands, avocado distributors use ripening rooms to prepare the fruit for the final trip to grocery store shelves.
A ripening room warms the avocados temporarily to stimulate ripening and then cools the fruit again to maintain a ripe state. This process takes about 24 hours and relies on fine-tuned temperature control. Each room can fit about $100,000 worth of avocados, so mistakes can be costly. Distributors require not only advanced controls to run their ripening process, but redundant monitoring and alarms to ensure success

Redundant System

Eagle Eye Technologies chose ControlByWeb to provide redundant monitoring, remote alarms, and mobile phone access to current temperatures.
Our X-405 and X-406 modules are ideal for monitoring temperature and humidity in warehouses, walk-in freezers, and coolers, ripening rooms, chill boxes, and more. These work perfectly for redundant temperature monitoring,
alarms, and remote visibility. Our X-410 is ideal for moving from passive monitoring to active control. We're an ideal fit for any application where monitoring temperature and/or humidity is critical.

Common Problems Solutions

 

Legacy systems lack remote visibility - Installed control systems often lack remote monitoring or control features. Replacing the system with remote enabled control and sufficient logic is cost-prohibitive

Equipment failure jeopardizes inventory - Temperature controlled environments must stay operational to ensure a high quality, safe product. If temperatures fall out of spec, valuable inventory is often lost

Flexible systems - Pre-packaged "solutions" come with rigid installation requirements, communication protocols and sensor types, leaving control engineers and integrators boxed-in

 

 

Perfect drop in solution for remote access - ControlByWeb devices have remote monitoring & control baked into their DNA. They work on any web browser and our mobile app simplifies usability for end-users

Early and accurate alarms - An unnecessary or false alarm is just as bad as no alarm. ControlByWeb devices alert operators to real problems while they still have time to react, saving very valuable inventory

Flexible solutions - Our programmable I/O platform is inherently flexible and used for remote and local monitoring and control throughout the world with many different control systems