Automation of temperature registers for composting process

Organic waste composting occurs naturally in compost piles, where the stages of this process are monitored and interpreted through the temperature records collected. The definition of the stage in which the process stands is carried out through a relation between elapsed days and temperatures recorded. The need to monitor temperatures makes it possible to frame the stage and understand the transitions between them.

Temperature recording is a task that is traditionally performed manually by an operator who, as a field quality control process, always has associated risks both for operators and for its efficiency. The modernization and automation of this task eliminates these risks and guarantees a total digitalization of this industrial process. But the differences between recording temperatures manually or automatically are more extensive. In the following table we can see some of the improvements in several points.

 

Differences between automatic and manual records

		Automatic records		Manual records
Infrastructure		Better process management		Poor management
Workers risk		No worker interference		Risks due to exposure of periodic measurements
Reliability		Electronic measurement system		Visual and manual recording
Traceability		Quick historic access		Need to compile registers
Monitoring		In real time		Broader periodic register
Remote surveillance		Access to data through automation or iot platform		No visibility
Combusting		Timely detection of fire occurrences		Impossible to predict the occurences of fire

 

Wireless compost monitoring systems makes it possible to streamline and simplify the management of waste composting processes. In addition to all automation of temperature recording process, it is also possible to benefit from other features that the technology offers:

• System for user alerts and notifications;
• Carry out reports of structured data para compliance;
• Regular automatic measures;

 

 

Tekon Electronics developed a wireless monitoring system geared towards composting applications that allows the digitization of temperature recording and analysis tasks. It's a solution developed with the environmental requirements of waste composting applications in mind:

• Solution powered by batteries or solar panel;
• Temperature probe with wireless transmitters;
• Scalable solution with several measuring points;
• Integration with existing automation systems;
• Solution with iot platform for data analysis;
• Tools for alarms and periodic reports;

 

Contact us for any additional clarification about wireless solutions for temperature monitoring in composting processes!

 

 

 

References

Banner Engineering. Monitoring temperature during composting. Accessed in 07/03/2022. https://www.bannerengineering.com/mx/es/solutions/iiot-data-driven-factory/monitoring-temperature-during-composting.html

Envirotech. Wireless Temperature Monitoring Probe for Composting and Biomass Plants. Accessed in 07/03/2022. https://www.envirotech-online.com/news/portable-field-testing/43/banner-engineering/wireless-temperature-monitoring-probe-for-composting-and-biomass-plants/28986

Hanwell. Compost Temperature Monitoring. Accessed in 07/03/2022. https://hanwell.com/news/compost-temperature-monitoring/

Atomation. Heartland Compost Sensors: A Case Study for Use. Accessed in 07/03/2022. https://blog.atomation.net/heartland-compost-sensors

Eltek Dataloggers. In-vessel composting monitoring. Accessed in 07/03/2022. https://www.eltekdataloggers.co.uk/applications_composting.php