Major dairy operations run on Aqueduct, line by line.
Reception, chilling, pasteurizing, CIP, boilers, refrigeration and effluent, usually behind one water meter and one power bill. Aqueduct meters each utility per line, so a loss has a location and a price.
What dairy units and food processing teams are up against.
Water, energy, air and operations carry equal weight. Each one runs the same loop: monitor, measure, identify, act, verify.
Water: Clean-in-place skids
Rinses running past their endpoint, straight to effluent
Energy: Refrigeration and ice banks
Short cycling compressors, found when milk arrives warm
Air: Boiler house and steam
Failed traps passing live steam between surveys
Operations: Effluent plant
Surge loads after cleaning, discharge logged by hand
Problem, solution, impact.
How Aqueduct resolves each problem for dairy units and food processing, and what changes when it does.
Rinses running past their endpoint, straight to effluent
A live water balance across meters and sub-meters localizes the loss, routes the fix and confirms it closed at the meter.
Loss found from the balance, not the bill, and every fix verified.
Short cycling compressors, found when milk arrives warm
Weather-normalized baselines per building and asset show the waste in money; schedules and setpoints adjust where control is enabled.
Savings stated in money and confirmed at the meter, not estimated.
Failed traps passing live steam between surveys
Air quality per zone, overlaid with occupancy, with ventilation raised when it matters and verified back in range.
Targets held during occupied hours, with the energy cost counted.
Surge loads after cleaning, discharge logged by hand
Faults diagnosed in plain language and routed into your CMMS with the fix; early signs of failure schedule maintenance first.
Fewer reactive call-outs and closures confirmed by the equipment.
One incident, from first signal to verified fix.
An illustrative example of the flywheel on a typical site.
Water, steam, power and refrigeration metered per line.
A baseline per CIP circuit, compressor and boiler.
Circuit 3 final rinse above its own history.
Ticket to the utilities engineer with cycle data.
Rinse back to baseline. Water and effluent saving priced.
Four connected products on one data layer.
Replace what should be replaced. Connect the rest.
- Utility monitoring
- EMS
- Leak and balance tools
- CMMS
- Historians and plant SCADA, read only
- ERP for cost allocation
Three equal ways in: keep your BMS, replace it, or build Aqueduct in at design stage.
The questions each seat asks first.
“What does it take off the bill?”
“Does it work alongside plant SCADA?”
“Can I report water per litre of milk?”
Every part of a dairy, from farm to effluent
Refrigeration and cold chain
Ammonia plants, chillers, ice banks and cold rooms, with kW per TR and COP measured per refrigeration group.
Learn moreCIP and process water
Water, chemical and heat per clean, inside a live process water balance with measured reuse.
Learn moreEffluent and ETP
Inflow load traced to its source, treatment measured hour by hour and discharge kept on record.
Learn moreDairy farms
Milking parlors, bulk milk coolers, barn ventilation and water troughs on one farm view.
Learn moreWhere a dairy’s utilities go.
of electricity to refrigerate one ton of dairy product.
Source: FAOof steam traps may fail in systems left unmaintained for 3 to 5 years.
Source: US DOE Steam Tip Sheetper cow per day can go to cleaning the parlor and milking equipment.
Source: Ohio State UniversityFrom annual walks to continuous signals.
Traps watched online
DOE guidance recommends online monitoring of the most important steam traps instead of waiting for the annual survey.
Cleaning judged by cycle
Per cycle rinse and caustic volumes replace monthly totals, so a drifting circuit is caught in days.
Sources3 references cited on this page
Proven in live sites.
Anonymized results from live sites.
operations on Aqueduct, with energy savings verified at the meter
Features that matter here
Common questions
Yes, by changing only what the evidence supports. Aqueduct shows which CIP rinses run past their endpoint, per circuit and step, and any change to a validated cleaning step goes through your quality process before it runs. See CIP and process water.
Yes. Gateways buffer readings when the link drops and send them when it returns, so a remote chilling center keeps a complete record. A wireless survey before installation sets gateway positions, and gateways connect over Ethernet, Wi-Fi or LTE. See gateways.
Yes. Aqueduct divides metered water, energy and steam by the production volumes your plant shares, per line or per day, so sustainability teams report intensity from measured volumes. The same figures feed BRSR and other disclosures. See specific energy consumption.
Yes, read only. Aqueduct takes data from plant SCADA, historians and PLCs without writing to them, so process control stays where it is. Partners add utility meters and sensors where SCADA has no points, and Aqueduct joins both sources in one water and energy model.
See Aqueduct on your own facility.
Bring a site, a utility bill or a question. We will show you where the loss is.