AUGUST 2004

TRC Develop Remote, GPRS Enabled Control System with Arbel Electronics

Total Remote Control are delighted to announce the first installation of the jointly developed Arbel MM2000 GPRS enabled system for the Dairy industry. The system has been installed in a prestige site in Northern Ireland and has given faultless, real-time service, even when connection was made from New Zealand!

The new MM2000 GPRS monitors and controls the Milk Cooling and associated cleaning processes on-line, through a high speed mobile communications service. It sends both SMS and e-mail messages in response to alarms and the new user software developed allows connection directly to the system, fron ANYWHERE you have an Internet connection.

The standard Arbel MM2000 control system is used in the Milk/Dairy industry for the Cooling of milk, applying acid and alkali washes to the milk tanks, rinsing the tanks and much more. However, as a stand-alone product, it required service engineers to travel to remote farms to diagnose potential problems and to make process adjustments. Now, with the all of the wash programs, process logs and system parameters both viewable and adjustable "on-line", alarms can be diagnosed remotely and appropriate, cost effective action taken on a global basis!

Long term field trials proved the concepts were acheivable and the embedded MM2000 functionaility was shown to be highly effective in monitoring system usage on the farm. In fact the log can be downloaded from the controller showing everything from which buttons have been pressed on the MM2000 unit, to when the last rinse was initiated.

The pictures above show the low profile system which has been designed not only to be fitted to new tanks, but also provides a simple and cost effective upgrade to the existing MM2000 product family.



The MM2000 board, which features a GPRS modem and the latest embedded web server technology, comes cased in a clear plastic surround faced with a simple to use button press control panel.

For further details of this exciting new product and the underlying technology contact TRC or Arbel Electronics.