Centaur provides the most advanced analytics for stored product quality monitoring and predictions.

Note 1: If it's a new setup, you may be interested to see how to:

Note 2: It is possible to use Centaur analytics even before purchasing Centaur smart sensors. In that case, you will need to take measurements manually using other sensors and/or measuring methods and insert them in the platform as "Virtual Sensor" readings*. Those readings need to be updated manually as well on a regular basis to feed the analytics with data. As soon as Centaur smart sensors are installed, all the readings are sent automatically to the platform.

To associate your deployed sensors with your asset, go to "Assets" tab, and select the asset you wish to attach sensors to by clicking on it.

In the asset view click on the sensors placement icon to see your available physical sensors or add a virtual sensor*:

Drag and drop your sensor on one of the available placeholders, representing its relative position on the wall of your asset (vertically or horizontally):

The sensor may appear with its unique ID or you can set an Alias to make its name more intuitive (e.g. "Top Sensor", "Silo 1-Bottom", etc.).

*The same procedure is followed for the "Virtual" sensors. The main difference is that when you choose to add a virtual sensor, you have to insert and update the sensor readings manually on a regular basis (e.g. once a day) by inserting the grain temperature, moisture, and timestamp (date/time) of the sample.

As soon as the sensors are attached to the asset, you need to update the quantity of the grain stored in your asset. It can be done automatically if you have installed Centaur's grain inventory sensor or manually by clicking on "Add quantity data" button:

Select the date and time when the product was loaded and the quantity (in Bu or Tons). Press "Add Data Manually" to complete the process:

Now that your quantity is added, and you start receiving data from your sensors, you are ready to run grain analytics:

Press "Run Now" to trigger the analysis:

When the analysis is complete, you can see grain temperature and moisture for the whole grain mass, as if you had thousands of sensors inside your product!

Click anywhere on the product to see temperature:

Or toggle between grain temperature and moisture to get product moisture:

A complete view of your asset will give you information about:

Stored grain conditions are affected by:

To achieve the right levels of accuracy in your grain temperature and moisture analysis, you will need to:

To add a grain conditioning event click on the fan icon:

In the pop-up window, click on "Add Event" to see the input fields, set the starting date and time, and, the duration and press "Set Event":

Click on the recycle bin to delete an event:

If your machinery supports air conditioning (i.e. not just fans aerating with ambient air), you can set the machinery parameters by clicking on the gear icon:

In the pop-up window, you may set the air temperature and humidity settings that your air conditioning machinery has been set to operate. Press "OK" to complete the setup:

Setting up grain conditioning machinery means that your grain quality analysis will take as conditioning factor an airflow with fixed temperature and/or relative humidity. Otherwise, if plain aeration is applied, the system will consider the airflow temperature and humidity to be the ones reported by the weather station in the area (i.e. fluctuating).