An easily-installed wireless solution to monitoring container load weight

Exeter, UK, -- Industrial Weighing companies facing new legislative and environmental issues have to look at spreading the costs associated with such change. This has meant a tighter control on the total filled weight of containers.

Any excess weight in the container has to be accounted for and charged accordingly.Modifications to existing container vehicles can be a costly and lengthy process.

Vehicles can be out of service for several days and have to undergo expensive, labour intensive, welding.

The Wireless Solution:
A container loader truck is fitted with two miniature Mantracourt Model T24-SA wireless strain gauge acquisition modules contained in shackles which are connected to standard chains.

A T24-HA wireless handheld display is used to sleep and wake the T24-SA devices and provide a summed display from the two acquisition devices.

The T24-HA wireless handheld display offers Gross/Zero toggling of the display so it can be zeroed just before each customer's refuse is added to the skip. In this system a printed paper-ticket is required on the spot for the customer.

A T24-SO serial output module triggered from a key-press on the handheld and connected to a thermal printer, prints a ticket containing company information and the net weight of the refuse along with a log number.

The printer and T24-SO are neatly housed in the truck cab. An optional module for the T24-SO would allow the ticket to contain time and date. Using a single 3.6V Lithium battery (Saft LSH20) per T24-SA, a life of three years can be achieved when the system is used for twenty pick-ups per day where each pick-up involves the system being active for ten minutes.

Click here for a quick overview of the T24 2.4Ghz Wireless Telemetry System

The T24 range is a flexible wireless telemetry system designed to provide high accuracy measurement data from multiple voltage, current and strain gauge inputs.

Any strain bridge, voltage or current output sensor, such as load cells, inclinometers, accelerometers, displacement and pressure can integrate with the miniature T24 Acquisition devices which can be embedded within or alongside sensors to create wireless strain gauge sensors, wireless temperature monitoring, wireless pressure monitoring and much more.

Mantracourt was founded in 1974 with the clear objective of becoming a leader in the application of microelectronics to industrial measurement applications. Based near Exeter in the South-West of England, we have become firmly established as a key technology provider to many major OEM sensor manufacturers, and now have a product range of over 1000 designs, with measurement technologies including strain gauge, temperature, pressure, voltage, current, potentiometer, rate, flow, LVDT and displacement, in either analog, digital or combined form - wired, fieldbus or wireless technologies.

Mantracourt Electronics Ltd
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Farringdon
Exeter, Devon
EX5 2JB, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1395 232020
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