{"id":7642,"date":"2020-06-19T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T12:38:00","slug":"iot-condition-monitoring-in-thermoregulation-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tempco.it\/blog\/en\/7642\/iot-condition-monitoring-in-thermoregulation-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"IoT condition monitoring in thermoregulation utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Energy management and energy saving<\/strong> within the temperature regulation in industrial processes. Not sure a new argument, but highly relevant in the field where Tempco<\/strong><\/a> operates, which I like to call \u2018Second level energy<\/em>\u2019. What I mean is that we are not into primary power generation, but committed in how energy is converted and employed in process industry<\/strong>, and thus how thermal energy is transferred in thermal processes.<\/p>\n

In Tempco\u2019s activities, aimed to temperature control in production processes<\/strong>, energy is employed to power pumps’ motors<\/strong>, chiller compressors<\/strong>, fans drives<\/strong> and heating resistances<\/strong>, in case of heating equipments for diathermic oil<\/a> and pressurized water<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I was thinking for a long time about solutions enabling a fine monitoring of the energy and efficiency<\/strong> of equipments. Then Industry 4.0 and IoT<\/strong> have become very popular ultimately, and in Tempco we are offering since more than a year a solution, called iTempco<\/a><\/strong>, that enables the remote real-time monitoring of our thermoregulating units<\/a><\/strong> installed at our customer\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

To be honest, this is not an easy success solution. Or at least, there is many speaking and curiosity about it, but at the end the application is made only by few customers. That\u2019s because our temperature control machinery are utilities<\/strong>, not directly connected to the core production line of a customer. Therefore, customers are more willing to install condition monitoring on core production lines, while utilities remains in the background.<\/p>\n

But from our personal point of view, thermoregulating units and temperature control equipments have power consumptions<\/strong>, thus impacting the final cost of the product. It is then useful to control also the functioning and efficiency of these thermal machines.<\/p>\n

The monitoring is achieved thanks to interfaces that today are quite common, able to gather and interpret the signals of the units<\/strong>, transferring them online and storing data on cloud<\/strong>.<\/p>\n