Artisan cheese maker gets a boost from wireless monitoring system
Continual monitoring of temperature and humidity helps control quality, increase production.
Located in Indianapolis, IN, Tulip Tree Creamery specializes in producing hand-crafted cheeses made from traditional European recipes. To ensure product quality, owner Fons Smits wanted a wireless monitoring system that could continually log temperature and humidity in the cheese aging rooms. The system would also need the capability to send warning emails whenever conditions changed and went out of range.
“I wanted to see much more detailed data from my aging rooms. If conditions such as low humidity, especially with mold-ripened cheeses, are out of range, the mold on the cheese won’t grow, and the cheese dries out,” explains Smits.