Dairy farms · Milk house monitoring
A warm tank, a failed wash or a dead compressor is cheap to fix when you hear about it in minutes and expensive when you find it at the next milking.
Phone view, demonstration data.
What it is
A wall-mounted panel with sensors on your tanks, lines and equipment, and a dashboard on your phone that alerts you when a reading is wrong.
It sits beside your tank controls and switches nothing. Sensors strap onto lines and tanks or use existing wells, and nothing is added to a milk contact surface.
Interested? Request a callbackMilk temperature on each tank, with the cooling time counted from the start of milking.
Wash water temperature through each step, so a failed wash is found before the next milking.
Compressor, agitator and vacuum, plus hot water at the heater and milk through the plate cooler.
The panel runs on its battery long enough to tell you the power is out, and again when it is back.
Standard system
If you want the panel to run the wash, pumps and setpoints as well, the control package is built per farm and quoted separately.
Alerts
| Alert | What sets it off |
|---|---|
| High milk temperature | Tank above your limit once the cooling window after milking has passed. |
| Slow cooling | Milk not down to temperature within the time you set from the start of milking. |
| Cold wash water | Wash water below the temperature the detergent step needs. |
| Hot water low | Water heater below its limit before a wash is due. |
| Compressor or agitator not running | The tank is calling for it and it has not started. |
| Vacuum out of range | Vacuum low or high while milking. |
| Power failure | Utility power lost, and again when it returns. |
| Panel offline | The panel itself stops reporting. |
Limits and delays are set for your farm and can be changed at any time.
The dashboard
Full dashboard, demonstration data. The control buttons shown are part of the optional control package.
Refrigeration service
The same people who build your panel can service the refrigeration it is watching, so an alert does not end with a search for someone to call.
Ask about serviceService is by arrangement. Tell us what you have and where you are and we will tell you what we can cover.
Common questions
No. It is an alerting and logging system that works alongside the recording equipment your tank is required to have.
No. The panel carries its own cellular connection. The monthly fee covers it.
The panel runs on its battery long enough to send a power-failure alert, and tells you again when power is back.
Yes, as a second step. Most farms start with monitoring. The control package is built per farm and quoted separately.
Whoever you choose: you, family, a herdsman, your refrigeration contractor. Each person can have their own login.
We can, or your electrician or equipment dealer can mount it and land the sensor wires. We finish the setup remotely.
A one-time price for the panel and sensors, then a monthly monitoring fee. Both depend on how many points you want watched, so call for a quote.
Where we work
Get in touch
Tell us how many tanks you have and what has gone wrong before. We will come back with a sensor list and a price.
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