Wine cellar temperature monitoring hardware for wineries.
Cellar and tank temperature monitoring for wineries, designed and built end to end: probes, a low-power board, a radio link that suits thick walls and stainless steel, and the data behind it. Built for wineries, including Italian producers, that need monitoring they can run without an in-house engineering team, it would grow from our own four-channel LoRaWAN node, a single unit trialled in a plant room.
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The problem
A winery working to HACCP needs temperature records for its cellar, and tank temperatures are another thing it may want to watch. Cellars are awkward for electronics. Stone walls and stainless steel both weaken a radio signal, the air is cool and damp, and sensors sit on tank surfaces as well as in rooms. Cooperative cellars may need many measuring points across several buildings. We would start from the building, looking at where the walls are, where a gateway can go and which tanks need a probe, then choose the radio and the board to suit. The views and reports would follow from what the cellar team checks each day. Tanks in use and rooms in storage also ask different things of a probe.
What we'd build
Tank and cellar probes with a radio link built for thick walls
Battery-powered temperature sensing for tanks and cellar rooms, together with its firmware, wireless link and data store. We would build this with a winery; it is not a product already in cellars. Where the walls, tanks and gateways sit would be the first thing we looked at, before any board is drawn.
| Layer | What we'd do | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Probes | A custom board with one probe type for tank surfaces and another for cellar air, on a low-power radio module. | Tank-surface probes and cellar-air probes would be separate designs, each with its own mounting and response time |
| Firmware | Logging on a schedule that suits slow-moving tank temperatures, with alerts for the limits your cellar team sets. | Logging interval, alert limits and what the device does while out of radio range |
| Radio | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or BLE, chosen once we have seen what the cellar walls do to the signal. Gateway placement would be part of that. | On our node: join back-off rises from 30 s to 1 h, so a unit that loses its gateway keeps retrying |
| Data | Temperature history per tank, which can be shown as a curve over time, and cellar records kept for your HACCP checks. | A per-tank and per-room view, an export for your own records, and who receives alerts |
| Mechanical | Mounting on stainless steel tanks and an enclosure for a damp cellar, scoped with you at the start. | Magnetic or clamped mounting on stainless steel, and sealing against damp, would be considered |
How working with us goes
- 01 Scope We agree what has to be built, where it lives and where the data goes.
- 02 Prototype Working hardware and firmware on your bench, tested against real conditions.
- 03 Pilot A small batch on real sites, with fixes folded back into the design.
- 04 Production Design for manufacture, a production run, and support once it is in the field.
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