Xfarm performs climate and feeding control.By setting a few parameters in “Climate configuration” you can choose between several types of typical climate control systems and by “Feeding configuration” you can choose between several types of typical feeding control systems.
Climate configuration
By setting a few parameters in “Climate configuration” you can choose between several types of typical climate control systems.
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The more extensive configuration realizes the operation of:
- 10 x On-Off ventilation Steps with Winter-Summer ventilation mode
- 0-10V ventilation by inverter
- 2 x flaps (air inlets) working either by static pressure or Associative or Proportional or Natural mode
- 3 Heaters
- 1 Cooling
Climate are available up to: 16 inputs, 24 on-off outputs and 3 0-10V outputs.
Feeding configuration
By setting a few parameters in “Feeding configuration” you can choose between several types of typical feeding control systems.
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The more extensive configuration realizes the operation of:
- 1 Silo with load cells or without load cells (volumetric system)
- 1 Birds weigher
- Water supply
- Lights (either working in on-off mode or by 0-10V regulation)
Feeding are available up to: 8 inputs, 6 on-off outputs and 1 0-10V outputs.
Environmental control
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Ventilation
Up to 10 x independent and fully configurable ventilation steps according to following typical options:
- On / Off
- Fan speed control by transformer
- Proportional by 0 -10 V for triac / inverter speed control
- Or a combinations of the three systems above
Flaps
Up to 2 independent flaps (air inlets) working either by static pressure by Depressiometer or Associative or Proportional or Natural mode (by 0-10V or by feedback potentiometer).
Heating
Up to 3 ON-OFF or 0-10V heaters with indipendent temperature probe.
Cooling
Controls of cooling system by temperature and % RH.
Humidification
Humidification according to temperature and % RH.
Average temperature value
Up to 2 probes can be connected to measure the indoor ventilation temperature.
These probes, alongwith the heating and the flaps probes can be connected to create an “average” temperature value as a mix of the temperatures as recorded by the above probes.
Humidity probe
The %RH probe affects Ventilation, Cooling and Humidification systems.
C02 - NH3 probe
CO2 and NH3 probes affects Ventilation systems.
Calendar
Heating and ventilation options can be set to run automatically according to the day of the batch.
Archive
In the Archive are recorded daily values of internal and external temperature, daily working time of heaters, total working times from cycle start-up.
Alarms
Temperature, humidity, air-pressure,C02-NH3, recording all the alarm events (including alarm exclusions).
All the alarms are recorded in the archive.
Feeding control
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Feed
Feed management can be done either by the silos load cells, or by volumetric system (when silos have no load cells) by converting the auger working time into Kg, or by an external weighing system (i.e. a mechanical weigher).
Water
Water distribution is programmable at preset times and consumption is recorded by the water meter. Water level is kept under constant control to prevent problems.
Lights
Lights can control by On/off output and with dawn/sunset 0-10V output.
Silo weighing
Detection and recording of feed consumption done by load cells.
Automatic detection of silo uploading.
Archive
Daily and total cycle data are all stored into the Archive.
Birds weighing
Bird weighing is performed by weigher plate.
Network connection
The "networking" is meant the ability to operate on the Farm in Xfarm remotely with using a personal computer on which you installed our software Xfarm Net PRO
Xfarm modules are already in place for networking and require no additional hardware, terminals are already present in the terminals for connecting the network cable, making operational control is required only a ULAN network driver that is connected directly to the personal computer from which you can connect through an electrical connection (cable with two twists screen) to modules.
The link to the various modules is facilitated by the fact that there is no specific order of connection, in essence it is not a link like "loop", essentially all of Xfarm will be connected in "parallel" as simple as possible for the operation link.
The maximum distance between the personal computer and the Last of the Farm related Xfarm is 1000 meters (1km).
Network software Xfarm Net
The peculiarity of the software Xfarm Net PRO is to reproduce the views and operation of the same Xfarm, in practice it may operate through a personal computer as you work on the Xfarm with the same views and the same procedure of navigation except that you don't press the button with your finger on the Xfarm but I'll use the mouse pointer on the PC screen.
The high speed data updates can refresh all the values of Xfarm in less than two seconds (the time value for each networked Xfarm) and in the case of variation of a set procedure be exhausted in less than a second immediately freeing resources for other procedures.
Another important privilege is that we can not leave your PC on continuously for a historical records, in fact the archives that are displayed on the pc are nothing more then archives stored by Xfarm (max 1000 days). This data are constantly updated on the PC when the program is running and is never lost until the start of a new cycle.
Data transfer (USB)
Communication with external world is by USB pen drive.
The main programming parameters, the archive downloads and software updates can be made by PC connection via the USB pen drive.
Xfarm Dialogue
With this program you can display on your personal computer all data cycle downloaded via the USB stick.