Dairy management system for a Mexican products company

Problem

Grupo Alpura, Mexico, produces dairy products. Their fleet consists of 200 milk trucks. The company searched for a dairy management system to solve product accounting and transportation issues.

• Grupo Alpura wanted to track their transport with goods in real-time.  
• The company also searched for ways to ensure the effective work of the vehicles and prevent excessive fuel consumption caused by idling.
• Fleet fuel tracking was required as fuel theft was also a problem.
• The client wanted to be aware of authorized and unauthorized stops in collection centers.
• As milk is temperature-sensitive, Grupo Alpura required a cold chain temperature monitoring solution to ensure the quality of its products. The client also wanted to measure the density of the milk transported in tankers to detect impurities.
• The dairy company needed to control the volume of milk coming out of the conveyor pipes.

Solution

The Wialon partner, CTTMX, Mexico, created a fleet management solution that allowed Grupo Alpura to take the milk transportation under control. The project contains the elements of the dairy management system to meet the client’s requirements.

At the client’s facility

• CTTMX equipped the client’s milk trucks with the CalAmp LMU-2630MB GPS tracking devices and several sensor models: Technoton GNOM Axle Load Sensor for weight measurement and Dogo 1BB to ensure cold chain temperature monitoring. Escort TD600 fuel level sensor is responsible for fleet fuel tracking.

• The Wialon partner also mounted the Howen HW-UFS06 analog ultrasonic sensors for volume measurement on the conveyor pipes so that the client could account for the milk coming out as if having a full-fledged dairy management system. 

• Wialon collects the data from sensors and GPS trackers and sends the data to the previously developed TRM IoT fleet management solution using Wialon API.

• CTTMX customized TRM to provide the client with advanced reports containing information on stops, idling, and other fleet parameters, as well as the data on milk temperature and density via the personalized dashboards.

Trip details

• The TRM platform was also integrated with Grupo Alpura’s legacy system incorporating a series of dashboards and indicators.

A dashboard for cold-chain monitoring

To choose hardware for the project, CTTMX tested several device models in the laboratory to identify the ones with the best performance. 

The Wialon partner provides online employee training on the client’s demand and supports the solution 24/7.