Success Stories

Refrigeration Control

THE PROBLEM

Agromar Industrial is proud of the quality of its products. For this Peruvian exotic fruit exporter, that is a differentiating issue with regard its competitors that results in better selling prices
A fundamental quality issue consists on keeping the perishable food products within strict temperature ranges. A too high temperature tarnishes the merchandise, notoriously shortens the life on the shelves and increases the risk of failing to comply with the food norms. On the other hand, a too low temperature could alter forever the product’s organoleptic features.
Furthermore, the global markets demand historic records showing that the product has been stored at the adequate temperatures.

THE CHALLENGE

Therefore, Agromar Industrial required closely keeping watching, at a reasonable cost, and without altering the normal production operation, the temperature of its products, since they are arranged and placed into their cold-storage rooms.

Biological Cultures

THE PROBLEM

The Institute of Hygiene of Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health has as a mission the conservation of biological samples sensible for human health as well as performing studies and cultivations. With this purpose it is equipped with dozens of refrigerators and freezers, which must be kept under strict temperature ranges, to avoid damage to the material. For biological cultivations, they also use several stoves, where temperature is a key variable that has to be strictly controlled and recorded, in order to ensure reliable results. They also use stoves and autoclaves for the sterilization of materials. The equipment is distributed over several stories in different laboratories.

THE CHALLENGE

Replacing the manual registration of temperatures, which is difficult and unreliable, by an automatic and continuous recording. The preservation of the information must be secured; the remote access must be allowed for supervision purpose, and it must be ensured the issuing of alarms in case temperature values move outside accepted ranges, requiring human intervention to make corrections.

CAMMESA

The Problem

CAMMESA, the company responsible for the wholesale electric market, needs to know precisely and close to real time, the demand of the greater electric energy users in Argentina. To comply with that requirement, Softron devised the SMED system.

The Challenge

The SMED System covers the largest consumers. In sync and for each of the points, the accumulated consumption is taken at intervals of 15 minutes and transmitted to the Acquisition Center, at most, within 3 minutes. That way it is obtained the updated demand curve and the market aggregated curve. The partial metering (some points and not others) or the delay in receiving consumer data, will difficult making decisions.