In this article, we will show how AoFrio's innovative energy-saving solutions, known collectively as AoFrio Inside, can help you reduce power use in your bottle cooler fleet and improve your environmental impact. 

¿Dónde y cómo se está utilizando la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) en la industria de la refrigeración comercial y hacia dónde irá? 

Where is Artificial Intelligence (AI) already being used in commercial refrigeration and where will it go to next? 

AoFrio has nearly 40 years' experience as a company designing, manufacturing, and supplying electrical components globally, with a special focus on commercial refrigeration and OEM customers. 

Climate change is a central global challenge impacting the industries served by AoFrio Limited. This trend continues to accelerate, driving change across energy, manufacturing, and consumer sectors. 

We design our connected affordable refrigeration IoT solutions in collaboration with beverage brands, bottlers, and refrigeration equipment manufacturers. We listen and observe closely to tailor our solutions to every stakeholder in their business.

This post looks at the six pillars that underpin Wellington’s connectivity solutions and explains how they can benefit clients and create IoT success stories.

Wellington’s ECR^® 2 fan motors have many advanced features which enable OEMs to improve cooler performance. In this blog post, we will discuss one of these: timed behaviors. The timed behavior function allows the motor to run in one mode for a period, then change to a different mode, without any change in the control inputs. Creative use of this feature offers many opportunities to enhance and differentiate cooler behavior.

ECR 2 fan motors achieve simple on-off control by removing power from the brown (phase) wire. Alternatively, they are configurable for three “speed” settings, these are selected by connecting the black (control) wire to phase, to neutral, or not connecting it.

For any given connection position of the black wire (i.e. to phase, neutral, or nothing), the motor behavior can be configured so:

Having determined the energy requirements for Connect Monitor, the next step was to select the battery chemistry and construction. There are many, many different types of non-rechargeable battery available nowadays, each of which has their own pros and cons: it’s easy to get it wrong if you don’t carefully think through all the requirements. In our case, we wanted: 

Over our next two articles introducing the Connect Monitor, David Howell, Wellington's Chief Technical Officer tells us about the real-world design considerations for the Connect Monitor's battery, starting off with the energy budget.

As the labour cost of replacing a low-cost IoT device is significantly higher than the price of the device itself; the battery must deliver the longest possible life while also producing the best possible device performance under real-world conditions.