An IoT-based integrated health monitoring of bulk milk cooler

Abstract

Bulk Milk Cooler (BMC) Health Monitoring at the milk collection centre assists the reception of the quality of milk at the dairy plant level, which improves the quality of milk received by the dairy plants and reduces the rejection or wastage of milk when it arrives at the dairy plant. The BMC health monitoring includes the pH of the milk storage tank, digital temperature sensor which is free from frequent external calibration, and accuracy does’t with lengthy cables, agitator rpm monitoring which is used to access the health of the agitator in BMC. Similarly, the health of the compressor which maintains 4 degrees C is also accessed. Based on cloud server/webpage-based analytics software as well as mobile phone-based software for live health monitoring, the agents/dairy plant supervisor can take a quick decision to recover the health of BMC, by mobilizing the manpower/service engineer, so that the quality of milk can be maintained at the collection/storage centre level.