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How poultry house monitoring is installed

Henlytics is installed as one Genesis controller per house, with sensors wired to it and readings sent over the cellular network to the dashboard and your phone. Nothing connects into the climate controller, so the house keeps running exactly as it does today while the sensors go in.

  • No Wi-Fi or network cabling
  • Keeps reporting in a power cut
  • Add sensors later on the same controller
The Genesis controller, a wall-mounted enclosure with four sensor ports along the bottom

Why the system is built this way

Each design choice answers a problem that poultry farms run into with monitoring equipment.

Cellular, because poultry houses are rarely near the office

Each controller carries its own 4G-LTE connection, so a house at the far end of the farm reports as reliably as one next to the office.

Readings are logged on the controller when the signal drops and sent when it returns, so the history has no hole in it.

Batteries, because the power cut is when you need it most

The controller runs on rechargeable batteries with solar or DC charging, so it keeps measuring and reporting when the house loses mains power.

A power failure is exactly the moment fans stop and temperature climbs, and a monitor that goes dark with the house tells you nothing.

Any port takes any sensor, set from the cloud

Each of the four ports can be configured remotely for RS485 Modbus, analog, digital, I²C, 1-Wire or SDI-12, so adding a sensor to a house later needs no new controller and no firmware change.

The same controller that starts with an ammonia detector can take a fan current sensor or a silo radar next season.

A broken sensor reports a fault

When a sensor cable is cut, unplugged or shorted, the controller reports that port as faulty and the dashboard shows it, instead of storing a reading from a sensor that is no longer there.

Independent of the climate controller

Henlytics has its own sensors and its own controller, so it works the same beside any controller brand and still reports if the climate controller itself fails.

Updates arrive over the air

Controller firmware is updated remotely through the cloud, so nobody has to visit the house to keep it current.

From the first message to the first alert

  1. Tell us about the houses

    How many houses and silos, how they are ventilated, and what you want to watch. That is enough to put together a setup and a quote.

  2. A controller on each house wall

    One Genesis controller mounts inside or at the end of each house, within cable reach of its sensors.

  3. Sensors where they read true

    Gas and climate sensors at bird height, a current clamp around each fan cable, and a radar sensor on the roof of each silo.

  4. Power and signal

    The controller runs from a DC supply or a small solar panel, with rechargeable batteries inside, and sends readings over the cellular network.

  5. Limits and people

    Set the high and low limit for each reading and add the people who should get alerts. Readings appear on the dashboard and in the phone app.

The Genesis controller

Designed and manufactured for field conditions, and the same controller in every Henlytics house.

Genesis controller

Genesis controller

Four-port controller that reads every sensor in the house and sends the readings over cellular.

Ports
4, configured from the cloud
Sensor types
RS485 Modbus-RTU, analog, digital, I²C, 1-Wire, SDI-12
Connectivity
4G-LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Expansion
Modular slot for external modules such as LoRa/LoRaWAN
Power
2 × 18650 rechargeable, solar charging, 6-32 V DC input
Enclosure
IP65, -20 to +70 °C
Data
Local logging with cloud sync, OTA updates

Questions farmers ask

Does installing Henlytics mean stopping the house?

No. Nothing connects into the climate controller or the fan wiring. Current sensors clip around an existing cable without cutting it, and the other sensors mount on the wall, so the house keeps running throughout.

What if there is no mains power at the house?

The controller can run from a small solar panel with its rechargeable batteries. Sensors that need more power, such as the gas detectors, need a DC supply at the house.

What if the cellular signal is weak?

The controller stores readings locally when the signal drops and sends them when it returns. For a site with no usable coverage, raise it when you ask for a quote: the controller also has Wi-Fi, and the hardware supports modular external modules such as LoRa/LoRaWAN.

Can I add sensors later?

Yes. Any free port on the controller takes any supported sensor type, configured from the cloud, and a house can have more than one controller when it needs more ports.

Who installs it?

That depends on where the farm is. Tell us the location and we will explain how installation is arranged for your farm.

Tell us about the houses

The number of houses and silos, how they are ventilated and what you want to watch. We will come back with a setup and a quote.