SENSITE SOLUTIONS PROVIDES WIRELESS TEMPERATURE MONITORING SOLUTION FOR HOLLAND MALT’S MALTING BARLEY

Holland Malt employs innovative technology in order to realise cost savings and real-time quality control for world’s largest Barley storage and Malting plant combination

Eindhoven, the Netherlands, March 29 2005 - Sensite Solutions, leading provider of wireless local tracing and telemetry solutions, today announces the deployment of its LogiSphere system by Holland Malt. Its new Eemshaven malting plant will be able to produce 130,000 tonnes of malt from approximately 165,000 tonnes of malting barley grown on 30,000 hectares of arable land, enabling an annual production of around one billion litres of beer.

Continuous temperature monitoring results in significant business benefits
“Continuous monitoring of barley stored at our facilities is essential for the quality of the final product”, comments Mr. Derk Reiffers, Holland Malt’s Plant Manager Eemshaven. “In order for this to function properly, temperature sensors must be placed in the barley itself, hence our need for a wireless solution. The system installed by Sensite Solutions enables us to keep the barley at the optimum temperature at all times. This is beneficial to the overall product quality. Moreover, by knowing the temperature at any time, we can optimise the drying process, thus realising substantial savings on our energy bill”.

Wireless system functions robustly in challenging environment
“The installation at Holland Malt is a premier example of our bulk storage control projects”, adds Mr. Pim Adang, CEO Sensite Solutions. “We were able to provide the wireless temperature monitoring tags in a format ensuring their flawless operation whilst they are covered with several metres of barley. Using the fact that the associated receivers form their own wireless infrastructure, we could cover the complete storage area using just three of them. This ease of installation and the reliable wireless communication are two of the key characteristics we find of invaluable use in all of our bulk storage control projects”.

LogiSphere unique monitoring solution for bulk storage market
“We are very pleased to see the use of our LogiSphere solution in Holland Malt’s state-of-the-art facility”, continues Mr. Adang. “We have developed a solution tailored towards the specific monitoring requirements of bulk storage companies. It is very rewarding to see that the implementation of this solution we have realised with our partner for Holland Malt, is indeed providing the customer benefits we aimed for during the development phase”.

About Holland Malt
Holland Malt is a joint venture of Bavaria brewery, the agricultural co-operative Agrifirm and nearly 600 malting barley growers.
For more information, please visit the web site: www.hollandmalt.com

About Sensite Solutions
Sensite Solutions BV develops and markets wireless local tracing and telemetry solutions. Sensite Solutions is a privately held company that was founded late 2001 and is located in the Dutch technology capital Eindhoven.
For more information, please visit the website: www.sensite-solutions.com.

For further information
Press Contact: Carine Groutars, +31(0)40 212 8700 or +31(0)6 22 99 4231;

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