Eight poultry sheds put feed, climate and camera control on a switch built for the shed

The need

The farm runs eight sheds, each with a feed controller, a climate controller, a water meter and one camera to check the flock. Switches were mounted inside the sheds and failed within a year from dust and ammonia, and each failure stopped the feed line until someone drove out. The office wanted the eight controllers on one screen, and the camera had to keep working through the night.

What was specified

Why that split

The switch has to live where the controllers are, so it is an industrial unit in a sealed cabinet rather than an office switch in the shed air. Two fibre ports per shed mean the pair runs straight to the office without another intermediate box in the dust. The feed silos are outside, so a converter there keeps the silo sensor off the shed switch and off the cabinet door that gets opened for every feed delivery.

Result

• Controller outages stopped being a yearly event tied to dust in the shed.
• All eight sheds report to the farm PC on one screen.
• The camera runs through the night without a separate recorder feed.

Quantities in the table are the planned build, not a bill of materials for a specific tender.