Miller Magazine Issue: 124 April 2020

76 MILLER / APRIL 2020 “The goal of doing an optimal management over the available stored grain is not a trivial issue in the globalized 21st century market. Lots of applications can do one thing or the other. But how easy it is to have everything in one application? What does it take to gather data and see them on your screen? What else can you do with these data and how can you control your facility remotely and efficiently? For an elevator manager to benefit from what the IoT has to offer, an intuitive app is needed. No matter how many or how important data and estimations are produced by a system, if it fails to convey the right messages at the right moment to its end user it starts losing its value.” Can you manage your grain elevator from your phone? Decision making for a grain manager is not a simple task as it combines challenges related to grain quality metrics and safe storage time, market price and demand, business strategy, losses elimination, and more. Achieving a good balance between revenue making (i.e. selling at the right moment), storage and conditioning costs and minimal or zero spoilage requires ha- ving a good insight in your stored grain. Antonis Tzounis, MSc Field Ops Manager Centaur Analytics, Inc. a.tzounis@centaur.ag