Breakthrough in Process
Control and Asset Monitoring
in Food Industry
Besides inner temperature food
measurement during the processes,
the SAW sensors can also bring
benefits in the F&B plants, as an
enabler for precise condition-based
maintenance program for the
manufacturing assets, especially
the rotating machines and electrical
assets like transformers or
generators, with other models of
wireless batteryless temperature
sensors (industrial probes, surface
How to get even closer to the critical along the production chain, or from
control points in your processes? How the oven to the blast chiller, from the
to save time, resources and money bratt pan to the freezer...
while increasing throughput and food
safety? The F&B Industry engineer
tool box now includes unique sensors
to get easily the temperature at the
heart of the food during cooking,
and at the heart of the most critical
These drawbacks can now be
overcome thanks to a revolutionary
technology – Surface Acoustic
Waves – used in the design of unique
wireless batteryless temperature
equipment on your production chain. sensors, and integrating into a
Chefs can talk about the interest to equip a 10-level professional oven
of knowing precisely the core in a restaurant as well as a tunnel/
temperature of the food being cooked, pass-through oven in a food factory or
to obtain the best quality and most the rotating racks of a bakery oven.
tasty dishes. They often rely on
battery-powered probes or wired
probes, but know their drawbacks and
limits: “cumbersome cables”, “battery
management and replacement”, ”not
suitable for high or low temperatures”,
“uneasy to clean” are listed among
others.
In the professional kitchen, and even
more in the food processing plants,
the wired probes also induce a lack
of continuity over the whole process,
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modular monitoring platform, suitable
mounting sensors, plugs etc.).
Such continuous surveillance on
critical points of the machines not
accessible with standard sensors
enables preventive maintenance only
when required – but before it’s too
late – and leads to optimized asset
use, reduced life-cycle costs thanks
to reduced number of failures and
repairs and improved throughputs
on the whole production chain. It
provides a key, reliable indicator to
plant managers that they can act-
on, helping them to optimize their
processes to deliver perfect products,
To help operators cope with HACCP even in changing and challenging
processes, the system manages user- environments, and at optimal use of
programmable critical control points resources.
and alarm thresholds and records data
in a centralized system if applicable, or
on a local SD-card.
SENSeOR provides modular, simple yet
comprehensive monitoring solutions
combining Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW)
A low-cost RFID-reader module can and IoT technologies. The unique wireless
also be added, to read out the tag batteryless temperature sensors enable
associated to the temperature of a precise continuous control where no
food piece on a moving carrier for other sensor fits.
instance.