Axino Solutions GmbH

With the increasing digitization of the business world, new solutions for the evaluation of data, use of sensors and targeted processing of large amounts of data are essential.

Axino Solutions' "Quality 4.0" approach supplements "Industry 4.0" with the component Quality Management in the digitization of business processes. This pioneering solution provides retailers with branch management with advanced analysis and forecasting capabilities to increase their quality assurance.

The solution supports the HACCP processes (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) for quality assurance and is based on the combination of an automated and self-sufficient sensor-monitoring of cooling furniture and a special forecasting algorithm within an analytics and management application.

Axino.IoT for Retails is an end-to-end IoT solution developed by Axino Solutions AG in cooperation with the Institute for Applied Simulations (IAS) and the Institute for Food and Drinks Innovations (ILGI) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. It is based on Axino hardware and software components using a low-power network (LPN).

Designed for a long service life, the system requires little operating efforts in terms of maintenance and management of the individual sensor modules. It can be easily extended to other applications.

Examples of IoT based processes are:

• Detection of complete cooling-chains (e.g. by monitoring rolling pallets)
• Cleaning on demand and pest control according to condition or event
• Initiation of condition-based maintenance for facility services and engineering
• Consumption monitoring via retrofittable sub-meters (shop-in-shop counters or individual monitoring of single items such as refrigerators, air conditioners, elevators and escalators, lighting,...)
• Waste management (measuring level of container)
• Parking lot management on open spaces

A large number of sensor types for standard applications are already available on the market today or, where required, can be designed and manufactured by Axino Solutions at a reasonable cost. 

Automated temperature monitoring and forecast of the core temperature of food

This automated monitoring solution for cooling furniture and refrigerated goods offers considerable advantages for the quality management and branch service to the food retail industry. It can be measured in qualitatively as well as monetary terms:

• Substantial increase in measurement quantity and quality
• Remarkable reduction of the metering costs
• Significant reduction in operating costs
• Increased data security

The solution combines innovative sensor technology with automated, self-sufficient data communication. Integrated predictive algorithms enable proactive automated integration with store management processes before thresholds are exceeded.

The automated forecasting and inspection system proactively informs process managers and employees in the branches via smartphone or tablet PC regarding food safety relevant disorders or events. Data, relevant for Quality Management and remedial measures in the event of an incident are fully documented.

AXINO.IoT FoodSafety consists of the following components:
Senstrack  innovative sensor device for cooling furniture with an integrated LoRaWAN communication-module.
AXINO.IoT  browser based backend application server with edge-cutting forecast-algorithm for core temperature including mobile smart-phone based administration- and configuration application for branch services.
Designed for a long service life, the system requires little operating efforts in terms of maintenance and management of the individual sensor modules. It can be easily extended to other applications.