Creagh Concrete required a digital solution to reduce pro- duction wastage, enable smart storage and retrieval, ob- tain faster inventory, and enable efficient product tracking at site. Working with Queen’s University Belfast, the team developed a four-part solution for this problem. A wireless in-concrete sensor that provides temperature and location tracking, a receiver (node) that can connect to several of these sensors and have environmental sensing capability, a wired receiver (family) that integrates several nodes and a LoRa gateway mounted at altitude to integrate all family and cover the entire production yard. This article outlines the features of the digital solution, benefits to the produc- tion and challenges that lay ahead.
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Sree Nanukuttan und Gareth Conway, Queen’s University Belfast, Great Britain Odhran Cummings, Creagh Concrete, Queen’s University Belfast, Great Britain Ruben Correia, Sean Toal und William Doherty, Creagh Concrete, Great Britain