Condition monitoring in storage rooms

Challenge

Temperature and humidity must be constantly monitored and documented in food storage facilities. Manual control is time-consuming, especially in large storage rooms with many measuring points. Automated solutions must be precise, secure and easy to integrate without the need to access corporate networks.  

Solution

Turck's condition monitoring solution offers wireless monitoring of the bearing environment. The M12MFTH temperature and humidity sensor transmits measurement data via a battery-powered DX80 radio node to a DX80 gateway in the control cabinet. From there, the data is forwarded via Modbus RTU to a TX800M IoT gateway which transmits it to Turck's TAS Cloud service via Wi-Fi or LTE mobile communications.  

Thanks to the mobile connection, there is no need to access the company network, which avoids security barriers. Data transmission is certificate-encrypted via MQTT. All access to TAS Cloud is based on a comprehensive role and rights concept.  

The cockpit in TAS Cloud displays all relevant sensor data on easily configurable dashboards and can be adapted to the requirements of the application and system without any programming knowledge. Alarms via email or SMS can be configured just as easily as long-term trend analyses or reports as CSV or XLSX files. This solution minimizes personnel costs while increasing the security and quality of monitoring.