Wireless Egg Node™
Wireless Egg Node™ identifies exact locations where egg damage takes place!
Wireless Egg Node™ (or Smart Egg) provides a real-time measure of shock, vibration, rotation, tilting and temperature to which eggs are subjected, helping to monitor egg conveying, grading and packing installations and transportation extending from laying location to point of sale.
Wireless Egg Node™ identifies exact locations where eggs are damaged. This allows appropriate corrective action to reduce breakage and losses, thus to improve operational efficiency and enhance the profit for egg-production farms and hatching companies.
Manufacturers of grading and packing machines use Wireless Egg Node™ to ensure that conveyor systems run smoothly and are well-adjusted.
Wireless Egg Node™ Attributes:
- Mimics the shape, size and weight of an egg for reproducibility of data
- Measures external forces on eggs including vibration, rotation, tilt, inclination, shock and acceleration along the chain extending from collection through packing, transport and in-store handling.
- Incorporates a high-speed tri-axial ± 40 G accelerometer with an internal temperature sensor.
- Super accurate (+/- 0.1 C°) Internal Temperature sensor, especially for hatching eggs.
- Water resistant and can pass through standard washing installations
- Scalable, data transmitted up to 1 km (0.6 mile) line-of-sight
- Network supports up to 128 Wireless Eggs simultaneously!
- Supports continuous, event-triggered sampling and data-logging with transfer of data to an internal memory
- Extended internal memory – 16 Mb capable of storing up to 8,000,000 data points
- Up to 6 months continuous use without charging (in 1 sample / second rate)
Main Features:
- Simultaneously transmit real-time data and log to memory.
- User-programmable sample rates up to 512 Hz
- High speed sampling, node-to-node synchronization up to +/- 32 microseconds
- Preservation of data integrity under most operating conditions
- Remotely configure Egg Nodes, acquire and view sensor data with ORKA Node Controller® software
- Stand-alone radio communication (2.4 GHz), enabling extended communication range exceeding Bluetooth™ devices
- Simple, user-friendly ORKA Node Controller® Graphing Software that includes:
– Each of the three axes of acceleration separately
– Total impacting force
– Zoom in/zoom out for granular detail of events
– Remarks and point of interest on the real time chart
– Snapshot from the tablet’s rear camera of what is happening at that moment - Provides reports, real time charts and data recording.
- Windows tablet with Node Controller® software preinstalled
- 1 year full warranty
Wireless Egg Node™ comes with the following items:
- Carrying case
- Wireless Gateway USB dongle
- 1 Wireless Egg
- Windows tablet with Node Controller® software preinstalled
- Charger for the tablet (with voltage adapters)
CASE STUDY
We have an extensive CASE STUDY showing great benefits of Wireless Egg Node!
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What Customers are saying about Wireless Egg Node...
A Canadian company produces, grades, processes and brings-to-market more than a billion and a half eggs each year.
They rely on the Wireless Egg Node™ to identify potential problems and reduce egg breakage as well as to diagnose issues at their producers’ facilities.
“We were having major cracked egg issues. We couldn’t identify the origin until we started using the Wireless Egg Node™. It helped us to identify sections on our line that were slightly worn and unaligned. Now we use it periodically to ensure that our equipment runs smoothly and prevents unexpected shut downs.”
Robert B.
Quality Control Director
A vitamin, mineral and premix manufacturing company in Colombia, offers their customers a wide variety of services including nutrition consultations. They serve a market that produces about 4.5 billion eggs per year. As an added service to their customers, they use the Wireless Egg Node™ to take measurements on site, then produce a report and discuss it with the customer to advise them on ways to improve their conveyors and transportation equipment.
“In the first year of using the Wireless Egg Node™, we were able to achieve an overall reduction of egg breakage by over 50 percent. It has provided us with a commercial advantage that is greatly appreciated by our clients. This has led us to increase our share of the market by more than 10 percent, just by word of mouth from customers using the service.”
Carlos F.
Quality control manager, Colombia
An integrated commercial layer farm located in Thailand, specializes in high quality egg production. They use the Wireless Egg Node at their collection center to reduce the number of eggs that are broken during the washing and grading process. They found the Wireless Egg Node’s ability to track shock measurements, very useful in their facility. They use it to determine when their grading machine needs to be serviced as well as identifying which parts of machine require attention. They also plan on expanding its use to reduce the number of damaged eggs at their farm.
“The Wireless Egg Node has been invaluable to us to identify where the eggs are being damaged. In our market, damaged eggs are sold at 50 to 70 percent of the price of AA graded eggs, so reducing the number of damaged eggs is extremely important for our bottom line. With 36,000,000 eggs being produced a year, the approximately 15% reduction we have achieved in damaged eggs has been very significant and more than justifies the investment in the Wireless Egg Node.”
Mr. S. Kruarattikan
General Manager