BinCloud® Solar Powered Gateway: Anywhere Power for 4-20 mA Level Sensors
Not the planetary kind, the scary-good level sensor kind.
No electricity? No worries! The BinCloud Solar Gateway offers a solution for installing level sensors on bins or silos in hard-to-reach locations where powering them up is a challenge. The costs associated with hardwiring and hiring electricians can often hinder the path to automation and streamlining your operations.
With the BinCloud Solar Gateway, you can now effortlessly monitor the fill levels of every bin or silo at any remote site, with hourly updates sent directly to the BinCloud software for automated inventory management.
Enjoy the benefits of automated inventory tracking even for bins situated in off-grid, remote areas. The BinCloud Solar Gateway efficiently provides the necessary power to operate two sensors and transmit data to the cloud once every hour.
This system seamlessly integrates with non-contact radar level sensors or any 4-20 mA loop-powered sensors, ensuring compatibility and flexibility.
Installation of the BinCloud Solar Gateway is a breeze, and you won't see any increase in your energy expenses. The gateway is powered by a 50 W solar panel, which charges a Lithium battery pack located within the BinCloud Gateway. This battery is capable of sustaining two sensors and the gateway itself, responsible for data collection and transmission to the cloud.
Mounting the solar panel and gateway is straightforward and easily affix to a wall or hand railing near the bin. In cases where no mounting structure is available nearby, an optional pole is securely bolted to the ground.
The battery boasts an impressive 48-hour lifespan even without direct sunlight, ensuring continuous functionality as the level sensors take readings and the gateway transmits data once every hour.
With the BinCloud Solar Gateway, establishing connections between every bin and your BinCloud inventory system has never been more convenient. The BinCloud software, a user-friendly yet feature-rich graphical inventory management tool, allows you to gain comprehensive insights into the status of all your bins, tanks, and silos holding solids or liquids at every location.
Industries such as cement plants, mining operations, and agricultural cooperatives or large farms often contend with bins located at considerable distances from power sources. In such scenarios, the BinCloud Solar Gateway serves as the essential component to complete your inventory management solution.
BinMaster
- +1.402.434.9102
- info@binmaster.com
- https://www.binmaster.com
- 7201 N 98th St Lincoln NE 68507 US
About us
BinMaster/Garner Industries is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Operations that struggle with the challenges of inventory management and timely replenishment of all types of powders, bulk solids, or liquids can monitor silo levels on their smartphone, tablet, or desktop with complete solutions from BinMaster. A complete suite of continuous level sensors, point level indicators, material management, and inventory monitoring devices and software simplifies material management while keeping people safe from the risks of climbing silos.
The Lincoln Nebraska, USA company manufactures sensors and software used for monitoring levels in bins, tanks, silos, chutes, and hoppers. Continuous level measurement options include SmartBob cable-based, guided wave radar, laser and 80 GHz non-contact radar, which are all compatible with Binventory™ software. Battery-powered, wireless laser level sensors are compatible with BinView® or FeedView® web apps for remote monitoring.
The unique 3DLevelScanner measures and maps material for volume accuracy and is the only sensor to generate a 3D image of silo contents. BinMaster is the exclusive worldwide supplier of this unique technology and has commissioned these sensors in bins containing powders and solids for over a decade.
Point level indicators provide automated level alerts using rotaries, diaphragm switches, capacitance probes, tilt switches, and vibrating rod level sensors. Dust detection devices alert to baghouse leaks and unsafe particulate levels. Flow detection sensors prevent cross contamination and assist with FSMA compliance for human and animal feeds. Aeration devices keep powders and solids flowing so they don’t pack in hoppers, along bin walls, or in the cone of the vessel
Robust, custom systems can be developed for a single site or networked for every bin, tank, and silo across a multi‐national operation. Add Stockpile Reports for pile inventory using images from an iPhone or drone to a SaaS dashboard. Monitor livestock feed inventory from a phone, tablet, or PC with the FeedView® web application.
BinMaster is US manufacturer certified to ISO 9001 quality management systems – requirements. For more information about BinMaster, visit www.binmaster.com.
What we do in a nutshell
BinMaster provides accurate inventory management for processing industries that store materials in bins, tanks, and silos.
Where we supply to
UK Ireland, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, North America
Industries we supply to
Chemicals, Energy and Power, Food and Beverage, Glass Ceramics Cement, Metals and Minerals, OEM, Paper and Pulp, Pharmaceutical Cosmetics Toiletries, Plastics and Rubber, Recycling, Tobacco, Water and Wastewater
Something interesting you may not know about us:
BinMaster is a subsidiary of Garner Industries and has fully integrated CNC machining capabilities.
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