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Treating and monitoring a flock of chickens or turkeys in an intensive modern poultry house is enhanced beneficially by using a complete control system that controls the entire automated components in the house. Temperature control, air, light food and water, can all be controlled from the same point. But no less important is the information that can be provided about the flock’s well-being. Information of the use of food and water, and the weigh rising of the flock is constantly gathered and compared with the pervious period. You can view this information on charts, but more important – be alerted in real time for any unusual behavior.
Even feeders, although always supplied with some sort of self automation, if you will override it by Elgal Poultry application – you will have the possibility to apply a well calculated food program and to follow the food usage.
The system is a combination of a "family" of super advanced computerized controllers, reliable sensors and sophisticated programs which together are with no doubt the "winning team" to achieve around the clock optimal conditions in the poultry house and thus saving you time and money and maximizing your profits.
System's Components:
Each Poultry house chamber may have the following controlled components:
| Component |
Max. optional I/Os per Poultry house
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| Motorized window/vent |
6 |
| Ventilation fans (groups) |
10 |
| Circulation fans (groups) |
4 |
| Heaters (each applied with ignition, high and low outputs) |
4 |
| Cooling pads/Misters |
4 |
| Light operation |
2 |
| Main feeders |
6 |
| Feeders |
3 |
| General (free) output |
4 |
| Alarms |
9 |
| Discrete (on/off) inputs |
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| Cooling Water counter |
4 |
| Drinking Water counter |
4 |
| Motor overload trip or phase missing |
4 |
| Main feeder active |
6 |
| Feeder active |
3 |
| Food scales pulses |
3 |
| Window closed |
6 |
| Dumpers closed |
1 |
| Fans group active |
10 |
| Discrete wind direction indicator |
1 |
| Analog inputs (Sensors) |
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| Temperature probes (internal) |
8 |
| Humidity probe (internal) |
2 |
| Chicken scales |
8 |
| Food weight scales |
3 |
| Windows position |
6 |
| Internal light velocity |
1 |
| Sensors for general use (vacuum etc.) |
4 |
| External temperature |
1 |
| External humidity |
1 |
| External wind velocity |
1 |
| Wind direction |
1 |
The actual I/O numbers to be connected depends on the total number of the controller configuration in use.
The Controller Program
A user-friendly program, demanding no preliminary know-how, operates and controls all the essential mechanical equipment in the poultry house in order to maintain optimal conditions in the house or activation of an alarm, if necessary, as a result of current conditions, as read by sensors.
Program features:
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Description |
| Environment control |
The poultry house required temperature is set once when a new flock resided, with a daily automated temperature reduction set, and a low target to end reduction.
The influencing components (windows, heaters, coolers, humidifiers, fan groups) are all subject to this central temperature. Each have a set to operate and stop in account of this set-point.
The software run the temperature management by 2 methods: Natural – attempt to control the environment by windows only, or Dynamic – full operation of high energy consumer components. Transfer between the tow methods may be automatic, or any other combination of enforcement, depend on the poultry house type and the external conditions.
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| Food control |
Different type of flocks require different types of feeding programs. While in broilers the only concern is bringing up weight, beading and eggs production often require strict food control. The food program enable all types of feeding, as a percentage of the average chicken weigh and considering use updates of mortality. |
| Flock’s weight monitoring |
In order to get an idea of the reliability of the rceived figures, the weigh monitoring allow the user with a quick accessible view of the number of successful weighs, minimum, maximum and average since the midnight initiation. The program designed an set to ignore any input which deviates from normal a grate deal.
A farther analyzing via tables or charts maintained via an external software (part of the PC package) called "Winman".
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| Water consumption control |
Abnormal water consumption can be the first indication on interference with the flock’s well-being. The system designed to alert the user for any deviation in hourly consumption compare to the same hour on the previous day.
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| Light programs |
The system provides with 4 segments of hours for each of the 2 possible light outputs. Each segment may either operate intermittent or steady.
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| Alarms |
Alarms are perhaps the first requirement of every new user. Elgal poultry provides a variety of messages that user can set to be alerted upon (in a matter of fact the alerts are ON by default, and the user must cancel them if he doesn’t want them. The alarm will appear on all user screens and operate an output that will generate dialing, hazard lights, SMS messaging or whatever device connected to them.
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Other Optional Elements
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A communication system between a central PC and network of controllers by different optional means, such as direct-link, radio, telephone modem, cellular phone etc.
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Computer software based on MS Windows with live graphic display for on-line monitoring, programming and current data storage with daily or monthly data presentations through tabular or graphic display.
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Each controller can completely control up to 2 poultry houses. The number of inputs/outputs listed below is the maximum number per poultry house.
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Poultryhouses Control