Agriculture

Transforming natural resources into quality products presents many challenges for companies. The challenges begin with research and development work, the selection of raw materials, and span all processes, always guided by quality and safety. This sector is also known as Food Service (food outside the home), it includes the areas of baking, confectionery and meals (crackers, pasta, breads, cakes, ice cream, candy and confectionery, fried foods, snacks and others). This  ever increasingly diverse product range requires more sophisticated control systems, capable of ensuring final product quality through the efficient control and monitoring of manufacturing, storage and production performance in real time. The control system includes: ? Control of the process and production; ? Recording and real time supervision of the entire production chain; ? Integration with SCADA supervision systems, dataloggers and database; ? Remote monitoring over the Internet using NOVUS Cloud service.

The transportation of food and perishable cargo requires continuous monitoring of temperature and humidity over its entire journey. NOVUS provides a Cloud-based monitoring service, utilizing the cellular phone network, together with data loggers and a web based supervision platform. This solution provides the following benefits: ? Availability of real time information; ? Reliability and traceability of the storage conditions; ? Real-time monitoring and reporting, of the recorded data; ? Alarm notifications sent via email or SMS.

Greenhouses are environmental protection instruments, using the greenhouse for the production of plants, vegetables and flowers. These structures are built with different materials such as wood, concrete, iron and aluminum, and by definition are covered with transparent material to allow the passage of sunlight for plant growth and development. These greenhouses are air conditioned and automatically control temperature, light and humidity. NOVUS have the following solutions for the automation of these greenhouses: ? Control of process variables: temperature, light and humidity;  ? Recording and onsite monitoring with fully wireless devices; ? Integration with SCADA supervisory systems; ? Monitoring over the internet using the NOVUS Cloud service; ? Alarm notification via email and SMS.

Beef cattle are of great significance to Brazilian agribusiness. Because of this, the meat packing and exporting industry is going through important changes to become more competitive and have their meat accepted on the international market. The changes are in health and quality and are aimed at being implemented in factory laboratories, such as, adjustments for ISO certification standards, preparation of Plans for Good Manufacturing Practice, and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points. NOVUS meets the needs of this market, by developing equipment and solutions for controlling and monitoring these systems, including:
• Control of the process and production;
• Recording and real time monitoring of the entire production chain;
• Integration with supervisory systems, data loggers and a database;
• Monitoring over the Internet using the NOVUS Cloud service.