# Monitoring & Logging for Utility Equipment (Water, Cooling, Glycol Systems)

**URL:** <https://community.breww.com/t/monitoring-logging-for-utility-equipment-water-cooling-glycol-systems/5931>\
**Category:** Ideas & feature requests\
**Created:** [20 May 2025 09:10 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/monitoring-logging-for-utility-equipment-water-cooling-glycol-systems/5931 "2025-05-20T09:10:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [20 May 2025 09:10 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/monitoring-logging-for-utility-equipment-water-cooling-glycol-systems/5931/1 "2025-05-20T09:10:59Z")

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### 🔍 Context

Currently, we take daily readings of:

- 4x water tanks (raw water, carbon-filtered, RO, and hot liquor tank)
- RO filtration status, TDS, pH and overal running
- Glycol system (glycol tank and activity of the pump)
- Cold room and malt room environment

These are critical for QA and planning, but Breww doesn’t yet support a clean way to log, track, and graph utility equipment like these.

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### ✅ What We Need

We’d like a new **“Utility Equipment” or “Support Systems”** module, or enhanced options in the existing “ **Vessel visualisation”**.

### 1. **Add Non-Fermentation Vessels & Zones**

Allow setup of vessels or zones like:

- Water tanks (raw, carbon, RO, HLT), Chillers, glycol tank, Cold room / Malt room, Water treatment skid / CIP tank

### 2. **Custom Parameters Per Equipment**

Let users choose what parameters apply per equipment type:

- **Water tanks** : volume, real temp, set temp, pH, TDS, pressure (optional)
- **RO filter stages** : inlet/outlet pressure, flow rate, TDS
- **Glycol tank** : temp, level, flow rate
- **Cold room/malt room** : ambient temp, humidity
- **Other tools** : energy usage, valve state, etc.

> ✅ Bonus: Allow linking sensor feeds via API (e.g. RAPT, ESP32, and other (API) integrations)

### 3. **Readings & Graphs**

- Support daily manual or automated readings
- Display in trend graphs (e.g., last 7 days of tank volume + pH)
- Show inline on the secific equipment dashboards (same like fermentation readings on batch)

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### 🔄 What We’ve Tried in Breww So Far (and Why It Doesn’t Work)

- **Reusing fermentation vessels** (e.g. RO tank as vessel): works for temp/pH, but forces irrelevant inputs like pressure (\* Compulsory in our setup).
- **Cleaning & Maintenance tasks** : can log tasks but offers no usable reporting/graphing. Also very manual input of data, 1 by 1, which makes it very slow.
- No way to **log and visualize flow rate or filter effectiveness over time.**
- Coldroom/moisture/temp readings are not attachable to any equipment object.

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### 🧩 Summary of Benefits

- Centralizes critical facility and QA data
- Keeps brewing + utilities in one operational view
- Enables proactive maintenance (e.g., preempt filter changes from TDS spikes)
- Improves historical tracking (e.g., rain events vs. input water quality)

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### ✏ Suggested Interface Changes

- “Utility Equipment” tab under Vessels
- “Add Parameter” section with custom field types (number, unit, etc.)
- Filterable, multi-line graph viewer with date range selector
- Task/reminder integration (e.g., “Check glycol tank level daily @ 08:00”)