Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

Creagh Concrete required a digital solution to reduce production wastage, enable smart storage and retrieval, obtain faster inventory, and enable efficient product tracking at site. Working with Queen’s University Belfast, the team developed a four-part solution for this problem. A wireless in-concrete sensor that provides temperature and location tracking, a receiver (node) that can connect to several of these sensors and have environmental sensing capability, a wired receiver (family) that integrates several nodes and a LoRa gateway mounted at altitude to integrate all family and cover the entire production yard. This article outlines the features of the digital solution, benefits to the production and challenges that lay ahead.