Miller Magazine Issue: 125 May 2020

72 COVER STORY MILLER / MAY 2020 sible with drying automation system that reads the moisture content of a sample, providing data to the control panel and the monitoring portal on the cloud, with the use of IoT technology. The drying data is measured by the drying temperature sensors, temperature and moisture of grain mass. The moisture read is done by a sensor installed on the dryer flow, and regulate the dryer discharge, controlling the drying speed automatically, to determine the beginning and the end of each product cycle in the equipment. With this system is possible to set the exit moisture con- tent of your grain automatically, and to determine the right moment to discharge the product on the ideal moisture for storage. Connecting the digital ther- mometry system, the drying auto- mation and all equipment sensors of storage project to a platform able to interconnect all informa- tion in a single place, the food safety of post-harvest process in- crease significantly. Add to it the silo and equipment project struc- turally adequate to engineering international standards to guar- antee a project with operational safety. As the harvest and planting process, the use of trustable technologies is the best way to post harvest chain, to maximize profitability, minimize loses, in- crease grain quality and to have a safe process to operators. Therefore, farmers, cooperatives and beneficiation units in gener- al will have good conditions to contribute in global food demand supply with reliability, safety and sustainability. References: ANSI/ASAE EP 433. Loads Exerted by Free-Flowing Grains on bins. In American Society of Agricultural and Bio- logical Engineers. 2011 FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food and agriculture projections to 2050. Avail- able in: http://www.fao.org/global-perspectives-studies/ food-agriculture-projections-to-2050/en/. JANSSEN, H.A. Versuche uber getreidedruck in silozellen. VDI Zeitschrift 39:1045-1049. 1885 World Bank, Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030: An Agenda for the Global Food System Available in: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org / handle/10986/21771. Figure 8. Grain exit moisture automatic control system on the dryer Source: Kepler Weber (2020) Figure 7. Drying process data on the IoT platform Source: Kepler Weber (2020)