Food Industry Pilot – Reduction of Energy Consumption and Waste Management (PINDOS)

PINDOS intends to use the services provided by the KYKLOS 4.0 platform to monitor the resources needed during production process, such as normal water, hot water, steam, or air compressors. ICS equipment such as sensors and PLCs will be installed on the external or replaced of the engines (pumps, flowmeter, energy meter) to monitor their proper operation and to prevent damage and malicious intervention from being detected by human error or external factors. The goal is to control the variables that ensure the quality of the production and therefore the quality of the final product offered to the consumer. By monitoring the production variables, KYKLOS 4.0 platform will support PINDOS optimizing the resources needed through the production process; particularly, the resource optimization will be focused on ensuring the minimum energy consumption while maintaining high quality of the final product. PINDOS use case aims at monitoring, controlling and optimizing the water and energy consumption in the slaughterhouse at different points of usage in the production line.

Additionally, PINDOS intends to improve their circular economy approach of their integrated ecosystem by monitoring the circularity of the waste management on multiple places of the whole process.
Regarding the slaughterhouse, PINDOS aims at optimizing the use of resources during the production line of the slaughterhouse; specifically, the optimization of the water and energy consumption without disturbing the plant process. Any water use optimization will directly reflect into the energy consumption reduction at different locations of the production line: the water borewell, pump stations, and the wastewater treatment plant. The water use reduction will also imply the need of less chemicals for the wastewater processing.

The integration of KYKLOS 4.0 will provide the following features into the use case:

• ICS and IoT devices deployed into the water supply, slaughterhouse production and waste treatment plant will support the collection of real-time data that allows monitoring and control of water and energy.
• Calculation of water demand in the slaughterhouse production unit in relation to the daily product output.
• The operator will have a dashboard with live and historical data from all the stages of the production in the slaughterhouse.
• Shift and plant manager will analyse the historical data and evaluate them to reduce the waste.

Regarding the whole circular economy strategy deployed in PINDOS, the objective is to monitor and control the indicators related to waste management on multiple places of the whole process in order to learn and improve their circular economy process of their integrated ecosystem.