Process control

[antonsc]

Hi all

Long time lurker, new poster here, so if this is the wrong place for this, please tell me!

I'm a long time home brewer, soon to be small scale pro-brewer (hopefully!), and have noticed a gap in process control systems - there's very little between a simple setup with a few STC-1000s and industrial scale stuff like Siemens BrauMat. My past life was in embedded systems, and so I've been running (at a 1BBL scale) a homebuilt system for the last year or so. My question is - if I were to take this commercial (Kickstarter), would this be of any interest to small-scale electric brewers out there?

The system I'm running has the following specs:
Temp sensing and control for HLT, MLT and fermenters (heating and cooling), up to 6 kW or so.
Flow meter on HLT output.
Full HMI, web-based for use on laptop and additional HMI optimised for smartphone, option for 7" touchscreen.
Talks Modbus for connection with existing HMI or PLCs.
Integration with recipe/brewsheet spreadsheet and recipe manager.
Plug and play - mount sensors (thermowells) and SSRs, and plug together with bog-standard RJ45 ethernet cables.
IO for other sensors and SSRs, for mixers, extractor fans, etc.

Any interest, suggestions or comments?

[Starcat]

Systems

Something similar to this?

http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/

[antonsc]

Hi

Nah, more like this:

http://www.akcontrols.co.uk/process-control.

Something similar to this?

http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/

[jbell71464]

We worked with Electric Brewing Supply and he custom built a control panel using the BCS 462 controller. Really happy with the work and cost
ebrewsupply.com
embeddedcontrolconcepts.com

We are running 4 BCS Controllers and can monitor remotely as well as run multiple jackets on our fermenters.....