Offering automated reports for easy analysis, along with instant alarm notifications for the prevention of lost stock, Real-Time Wireless Environmental Monitoring allows you to understand every aspect of your food production site.

Instead of leaving your operation open to human error, you can drive standards of accountability and traceability, as you monitor your site from any location and at any time.

But what exactly can you track using a Real-Time Wireless Monitoring System?

The following guide aims to answer this question, providing an overview of the most popular functions, as well as the parameters you may be yet to consider.

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Wireless Environmental Monitoring: The Most Popular Functions

Temperature

One of the most popular functions of Real-Time Wireless Environmental Monitoring is the tracking of temperatures across food production sites, with temperature absolutely crucial to matters of quality, safety, and compliance. Failing to keep products at the correct temperature can lead to serious food safety incidents, customer complaints, and failed audits. Even if an issue is spotted before a product reaches consumers, the result will still be an expensive loss of stock.

Humidity

Humidity is another important parameter. After all, controlled humidity ensures fruit and vegetables remain fresh, enables the effective curing of meat, prevents dried goods from turning soggy, and plays an essential role in the dough proving process. Humidity is also a crucial factor in the proper storage of fine wine and is a priority for confectionery manufacturers, with sugar extremely sensitive to excess moisture in the air.

Wireless Environmental Monitoring: The Additional Functions

Although temperature and humidity are two of the most common parameters to measure, there are a wide range of other functions to explore. Ranging from air flow to energy consumption, Wireless Environmental Monitoring can help you to understand all aspects of your operation.

Below are some of the additional functions to consider:

Door Contact

If you are monitoring temperature and humidity at your site, it makes sense to use door reporting in tandem, as an open door can drastically impact the environment on either side.

A Wireless Monitoring system will allow you to set up alarms for door activity. You will also be able to see how long doors have been left open, which doors are most commonly left open, and which zones or sites are most culpable.

Energy

Another parameter to measure is the energy usage at your factory, a valuable resource for companies that are under pressure to reduce costs or reach sustainability targets.

Connecting straight to the pulse output of your site’s meter, a Wireless Monitoring system will track how much energy is being used in real-time. It will also grant you the ability to compare usage across the different sites within your group.

Water Consumption

As with energy usage, you may also be under pressure to reduce or at least monitor your water consumption. Depending on the applications that take place at your site, this function may be relevant to both hygiene washdowns and production.

Again, Wireless Environmental Monitoring will help you to measure this parameter, giving you the tools you need to identify areas for improvement and investigate any anomalies.

Water Temperature

You can also use Wireless Environmental Monitoring to track water temperature during different applications.

With temperature an essential factor in the preparation and production of food, closely monitoring this parameter will help you to drive standards of quality and safety. It could also help your site to secure audit compliance, as reports will be available at the click of a button.

Concentration (ppm)

Concentration (ppm) is another essential parameter to consider when discussing the functions of Real-Time Wireless Monitoring.

With the right system in place, you will be able to automatically track chemical dosage during applications such as vegetable wash baths and hygiene wash downs. There is also the potential for the system to detect small gas leaks on site, sending alarms to the relevant operatives.

Tank Level

Another benefit of Wireless Monitoring is that it can often reduce the frequency/need for some manual tasks.

For example, if your operatives are currently charged with assessing tank levels at your site, these checks could be handled by an automated system. This will remove the possibility of human error or oversight. It will also free up your team to focus on other responsibilities.

Air Flow

Finally, you should consider the importance of accurately monitoring the air flow at your site. This is an especially useful tool for factories that have areas with different risk levels and need to defend against contamination through air particles.

A Wireless Monitoring system will allow you to monitor the movement of air at your site and will send an automatic alert should the air pressure move outside the expected range.

So that brings us to the end of our guide to the wide range of functions provided by a Real-Time Wireless Environmental Monitoring System.

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