Choosing a fixed ammonia detector for a poultry house
What to check on an ammonia detector datasheet before you buy one for a poultry house: range, accuracy, calibration, where it mounts and how it alarms.
Air quality 6 min read
Poultry house monitoring and analytics
Henlytics is a poultry house monitoring system that measures ammonia, CO2, temperature, humidity, feed silo level and fan current in every house, and alerts your phone the moment something goes wrong.
Your controller runs the house. Henlytics proves it.
The failures that cost a flock happen when nobody is in the house
A good controller runs the house. It does not always tell you, at two in the morning, that the house is not doing what it was told.
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Ammonia builds up on minimum ventilation
Cold nights and closed houses are when NH3 and CO2 climb, and when nobody is taking readings.
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A fan stops while the controller says it is on
A current sensor on each fan motor shows whether it is actually running, not just switched on.
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A silo runs empty on a Sunday
A radar sensor on the silo roof shows the feed level from your phone, with an alert before the lines run dry.
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Every house on one screen, and a record of the flock
Live readings, history per house and alerts that repeat until someone on the farm acknowledges them.
Independent of the controller, on purpose
Your controller knows what it told the house to do. Henlytics measures what the house actually did, with its own sensors, its own battery and its own cellular link. When a fan, the power or the controller itself fails, the alert still goes out, and every reading stays on record.
Your climate controller
- Decides what the fans, heaters, inlets and cooling should do
- Measures with its own temperature probes
- Alarms in the house or through its own dialer
Henlytics, independent of it
- Measures the result: ammonia, CO2, temperature and humidity where the birds are
- Confirms the equipment: current on each fan motor, feed in each silo
- Alerts every phone on the farm, and repeats until someone acknowledges
- Keeps the record: history per house, exported to Excel for any period
Works with any controller brand, or with none: nothing is rewired and the house is run exactly as before. Sensors and one controller per house, on the cellular network.
Set up for how your farm produces
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Broilers
Short cycles, dense houses and a brooding week where the margin for error is smallest.
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Layers
Long flocks in the same house, where a slow change in air quality or water shows up as eggs lost weeks later.
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Breeders and hatcheries
Valuable birds and a hatchery climate where a few degrees for a few hours is a batch.
Industrial sensors, one controller per house
Every sensor is a standard industrial instrument, and any of them connects to the same controller port. Add a sensor to a house later without changing anything else.
How the system is installed-
Ammonia detector
NH3 in the house air
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CO2 detector
Ventilation and brooding
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Climate probe
Temperature and humidity
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Radar level sensor
Feed left in each silo
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Current sensor
Is each fan running
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Genesis controller
Reads them all, sends by cellular
Guides for the poultry house
All guides 
Poultry house alarms: what should wake you at night
How to design the alarms for a poultry house: which readings deserve a 3 a.m. call, where to set limits, who gets woken and how to keep the team answering.
Ventilation and alarms 6 min read
Brooding temperature for chicks by weight and humidity
Brooding temperature for broiler chicks from placement to day 27: the breed guide targets by body weight, how humidity shifts them, and where to measure.
Ventilation and alarms 7 min read
Questions farmers ask
What is a poultry house monitoring system?
A set of sensors in each house that measure the conditions the birds live in, such as ammonia, CO2, temperature and humidity, plus equipment checks like fan current and feed silo level, all reporting to one screen and alerting a phone when something goes out of range. Henlytics is one such system, built as an independent record of each house, whatever controller runs it.
Does Henlytics work with my existing controller?
Yes, with any brand, and on farms with no climate controller at all. Henlytics does not need to connect to the controller: it measures the house with its own sensors and reports over its own cellular link, so a failure in the controller or its power still reaches your phone.
Can I show the records to an integrator or an auditor?
Yes. Every reading is stored per house with its time, and any house and period can be exported to Excel, so you can show what the air, the temperature and the equipment did during a flock.
How does Henlytics send data from a remote farm?
Each house has a Genesis controller that sends readings over the cellular network. No Wi-Fi or cabling back to an office is needed, and the controller keeps readings if the signal drops and sends them when it returns.
Who gets the alerts?
Everyone you add to the farm account, on the mobile app. An alert repeats until someone acknowledges it, and a second notice goes out when the reading returns to normal.
Can I start with one house?
Yes. Many farms start with one house or one problem, often ammonia or fan failure, and add sensors and houses later. Every house appears on the same dashboard.
How is Henlytics priced?
Each farm is quoted on the houses and sensors it needs. Send the number of houses and what you want to watch, by the form or on WhatsApp, and you will get a quote.
Start with the house that worries you most
Tell us how many houses you run, what kind of birds, and what keeps you up at night. We will come back with a setup and a quote.