Food & Agriculture
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Common applications in the food and agriculture industries include food processing, cold chain monitoring, quality assurance, monitoring pest control effectiveness, temperature and humidity profiling crops, wine growing, coffee brewing, and many more. We supply the suppliers with the most reliable selection of temperature and humidity dataloggers anywhere to ensure cold chain integrity and a superior product. |
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Monitoring the Storage of Semen for Artificial FertilizationPublished on February 14, 2012 Manufacturer: Accsense CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring system for a farmer breeding cows via artificial insemination methods to guarantee optimum fertility and herd quality while avoiding the cost of keeping or borrowing a stock bull. To ensure high fertility rates, the farmer kept a supply of bull semen stored at the required temperatures and ready for implantation. In cases where the storage time wouldn’t exceed 4 days, the semen could be kept at 22°C (71.6°F) to main... |
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Temperature and Humidity Monitoring in Ice Wine HarvestingPublished on January 25, 2012 Manufacturer: TandD CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature and humidity monitoring solution for a small winery in Ohio which was waiting for winter temperatures to drop low enough to harvest an acre of grapes to make ice wine. Earlier in the year, these grapes were left to freeze on the vine, where their water froze and their sugar became strongly concentrated. The resulting wine was exceptionally sweet and in high demand. However, the harvesting process was demanding and even risky ... |
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Cocoa Fermentation Using Wireless MonitoringPublished on January 4, 2012 Manufacturer: TandD CAS DataLoggers recently provided the datalogging solution for a cocoa manufacturer which needed to record temperature and humidity in cocoa fermentation boxes in the tropics. The beans had to be carefully fermented to bring out the best flavors and give chocolate its richness. After farmers gathered the cocoa pods and scooped the cocoa beans out, the cocoa beans were fermented inside wooden boxes or “sweatboxes” for a period of six days. A 220 lb. batch of beans along with t... |
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Fumigating Flour Silos Using Real-Time Temperature MonitoringPublished on November 7, 2011 Manufacturer: TandD CAS DataLoggers recently provided the real-time wireless data logging solution for the Bay State Milling Company in Indiantown, Florida, a food processing company serving Central and South Florida producing baking flour in bulk and packaged products. The flour mill’s stringent Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM) ensured that the plant’s superior wholesome products were not contaminated with insects. As part of its IPM program, the mill regularly used a powerful industria... |
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Squirrel Data Logger 'Clamps' Down on Sugar LossPublished on September 28, 2011 Manufacturer: Grant Instruments CAS DataLoggers recently provided the data logging solution for UK sugar company British Sugar, which was searching for a high-tech way to prevent their stock of sugar beets from deteriorating in storage while waiting to be processed into white sugar bound for kitchens and tables around the world. Harvested sugar beet remained alive and as it respired, converting sugar into carbon dioxide and water, it generated heat. If the temperature inside a mountain of sugar beets—called... |
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Monitoring Flower Storage Temperature RemotelyPublished on September 27, 2011 Manufacturer: Accsense CAS DataLoggers recently provided the remote temperature monitoring solution for a fresh flower supplier who needed to monitor three remote storage sheds for temperature. Like everyone in the floral supply business, she was always expected to deliver reliably, and a single failure to keep the fresh-cut flowers cool enough could mean a missed shipment and a major loss of reputation. After harvesting, the fresh flowers needed to be kept at temperatures close to freezing, yet co... |
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Home-Brewing A Good Cup of CoffeePublished on August 22, 2011 Manufacturer: Escort CAS DataLoggers recently supplied the data logging solution to a master coffee roaster brewing his own product from inside his home to sell at local farmers’ markets and through his online store. Creating a quality cup of coffee from scratch required much trial and error as well as a good sense of smell. To design his original flavors and blends, the brewmaster bought green coffee beans from all over the world from many different distributors. When he was ready to brew, first... |
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Monitoring Milk Shipments En Route to SupermarketsPublished on August 22, 2011 Manufacturer: Escort CAS DataLoggers recently provided the temperature monitoring solution for one of the largest milk companies in the US. During deliveries to distant receivers including widespread supermarket chains, the milk’s temperature needed to remain at a constant 2°C-3°C (36°F-37°F) throughout transit, otherwise the milk would be rejected by receivers as unsafe for sale due to health risks. An extremely temperature-sensitive product, the milk would spoil if its temperature was allowed t... |
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