Greenhouse – a customer story
“Real time temp and humidity alarms have allowed us to respond before the plants are in distress.
The ezeio™ is extremely easy to integrate and configure.
Now when there is an issue around the facility we ask… could we use eze System for that?”
Background
The customer is a tissue culture lab that provides clonal root stock to nurseries. Tissue culture process starts with a single shoot which is grown in a nutrient rich medium and divided further into clonal shoots. This process is repeated many times till the desired plant numbers are reached.
The company supplies many cultivars of Walnut, Almond, Pistachio, Cherry, Pecan and Apple rootstocks. More than six million root stocks are delivered each year. Significant time and effort goes into a single order and on-time delivery is critical. For this reason, Micro Paradox needed a dependable monitoring and alert system to monitor the environment of its grow rooms and greenhouses.
Challenges
Requirements
The Solution
Several ezeio systems were installed within the facility, and connected to multiple sensors of varying types.
In the greenhouses, each ezeio was installed in IP67 enclosures with a backup battery and with cellular communication as an automatic fallback if the local power or network should fail. Modbus capable Temperature & Humidity sensors were used, linked to the greenhouse ezeio.
Each ezeio has additional input/output capacity for future expansion.
Easy installation and easy expansion
Result
The customer was so pleased with the system that they are planning to expand the use of ezeio’s throughout the facility.
New projects include;