BRAND CIRCLE
Delta's industrial automation system helps to advance a green ranch's technology
Text by DGC 2023/02

The traditional open pig farming environment tends to be dirty and messy. The Two End Black International Ranch located in Jinhua, Zhejiang, has adopted Delta’s VTScada to change the impression that pig farms make.

This international ranch has integrated the functions of sightseeing, entertainment, science education, and research. Visitors can enjoy the ranch occupying more than a thousand acres, savor the taste of the world's top ham, and learn about the ranch's history and skills handed down from generation to generation. By integrating cultural creativity elements, the ranch has created an excellent sightseeing experience for tourists, the most distinctive of which is the 5G smart farming center jointly developed by Delta and Zhongrun Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd.The international ranch has adopted Delta’s VTScada to change the impression that pig farms make.

The fancy, tidy, sophisticated, and safe farming center is not only an eight-star shelter for pigs but also the core of the entire ranch. Visitors can walk along the 120-meter-long corridor and observe pigs' growth process. With the support of a full set of automation technology, the center is equipped with a floor heating system for winter, an air conditioning system for summer, a spaying system for high temperatures, a lighting system for low temperatures, and an insect repelling and disinfection system, along with a regular food and beverage delivery function, an automatic feces cleaning function, as well as soft music to prevent pigs' miscarriage and improve their sleeping. All of these rely on Delta’s VTScada, a smart housekeeper tailor-made for customers by Delta and Zhongrun Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. together.

With the VTScada system, all automated facilities, including the smart feeding, drinking, spraying, cleaning, and deodorization systems, operate depending on needs, thereby significantly reducing manpower need and resource consumption. When there is an unusual situation in the pig loft, the system will automatically evaluate the level of the problem and launch a prepared response plan in time, while notifying the responsible personnel. The videos recorded by nearly a hundred cameras can be transmitted to the central control room in real time. Everything in the loft is under the responsible personnel's control. The data of the operations of all facilities is visualized; as such, the information on the environment and the access control status is clear at a glance. The system supports remote control and allows access permissions to be set based on the management level and all historical records to be traced. The high degree of automation not only reduces the risk of human-pig contact but also isolates the inside environment from the outside, thereby enhancing epidemic prevention.With the VTScada system, all automated facilities operate depending on needs.

The Delta’s VTScada system can not only help to realize a comprehensively digitalized and automated ranch but also enable it to extend functions and expand the system scale based on needs, giving the system a strong advantage. Because of the modular functional design and well-developed, optimized solutions, clients can choose and extend system functions depending on their own needs. This enables enterprises to integrate and link multiple projects in different regions in real time, thereby expanding the system scale and creating an intelligent, highly efficient system with functions easy to extend. The system jointly developed by Delta and Zhongrun Agriculture & Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. will continue to provide a highly efficient and smart growth model for the smart agriculture and farming industry in the future, to facilitate the occurrence of more legends in the industry.The data of the operations of all facilities is visualized; as such, the information on the environment and the access control status is clear at a glance.