What a great start to 2022! Wellington featured in the New Zealand Herald as one of the top brokers picks for 2022, picked by the CEO of the NZ Shareholders Association.
We recently connected our most advanced commercial refrigeration customer directly to our live Connect™ Cloud platform; we believe it’s the first commercial refrigeration ecosystem enabled by application programming interfaces (APIs) to serve refrigeration fleet customers.
Wellington Connect Field app
I was speaking with the equipment manager of one of the largest and most sophisticated soft drink bottler customers. He explained that they had just finished internal training on the Wellington Connect Field app for their refrigeration technicians.
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 Director and CEO, Greg Allen and Mexico Sales General Manager Jorge Civeira were privileged to have joined distinguished attendees at the seminar for collaboration opportunities for New Zealand and Mexico Business, organized by COMCE.
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.
Wellington Drive Technologies new ConnectTM Monitor is rolling out to selected field trial customers in August 2020. Over the next few blogs, we are going to introduce you to the many features of this versatile refrigeration IoT device.