A Story on Intelligent Green Grain Storage of Yushu Grain Depot of SINOGRAIN

The reporter truly felt the epoch-making changes of “Granary of China” through Yushu Grain Depot of SINOGRAIN, which witnessed the hard work made by the people for the food security in China.

Refined management prevents the intervention of personal relations

Without the man-made sampling, the “sampling and separation” of automatic machines became more credible. At the entrance of Yushu Grain Depot, after random sampling by the automatic machine, samples were sent to lab for testing. In a few minutes, the test results were shown on the display screen.

"The phone signal is blocked in the laboratory, and the inspectors are unable to communicate with the outside world, so there is no human intervention in the inspection process." Meng Qingtao, Head of the Storage and Section of the Yushu Grain Depot, said that the inspectors had no contact with the grain sellers, which effectively curbed the human intervention, fully ensured the fairness and justice of the test results, and gained the support and trust from more and more common people.

It is widely recognized by surrounding villagers that Yushu Grain Depot kept an impartial and fair attitude when it came to sampling and detection. Some farmers said that SINOGRAIN adopted impartial detection method, so even if some farmers lived a little far from Yushu Grain Depot, they were still willing to go here to sell their grains.

The application of “one-in-all” system significantly improved the efficiency of grain purchase. Yushu Grain Depot had a one-stop service center. All the processes realized automation, standardization and integration, including entry registration, sampling, air-proof inspection, gross weight measurement, receiving agricultural products, supervision, unloading, tare weight measurement, acquisition settlement and unified fund payment.

According to Jiang Yusheng, Secretary of the CPC Committee and General Manager of Yushu Grain Depot, the “one-in-all” system for grain purchase realized the connectivity of information in multiple links and in multiple levels. Therefore, the grains could be managed in the same way as the money was to be deposited in the banks, which completely changed the traditional extensive management mode of grain purchase, and realized the standardization of purchase process management.

New technologies of grain storage ensure "food safety"

There were various new technologies of grain storage in Yushu Grain Depot, including grain condition detection, mechanical ventilation, circulation fumigation and grain cooling. A new grain storage technology not only effectively controlled temperature and humidity, but also realized the ideas of green, energy saving and environmental protection, so that rats and insects could completely be eliminated, and each grain could be kept safely.

"In winter, cooling resources are accumulated in the grain piles. In high temperature season, the circulation equipment installed in the warehouse is used to control and balance grain temperature through the operation of pipes, grain piles and ventilation cages in the warehouse. Even in the hot summer, the temperature in the warehouse is controlled below 15 degree Celsius ” According to Wang Xianfu, Deputy General Manager of Yushu Grain Depot, the application of inner circulation temperature control technology was shifted from the manual handling to the automatic control for grain situation. All the year round, grains could be stored at low temperature or quasi-low temperature, so the grains can be kept fresh. In this way, green grain storage and ecological grain storage could be truly realized. Jilin Branch of SINOGRAIN basically realized the full coverage of inner circulation temperature control technology.

Intelligent grain storage technology made iIntelligent innovation on traditional ventilation, air conditioning and drying technology, this like to speak that a "smart brain" for grain storage equipment was installed, which  significantly saved costs, reduce losses, and reduced labor intensity. As Wang Xianfu said, the intelligent ventilation technology could automatically select the best time to turn on the fan for ventilation operation according to the temperature and humidity changes inside and outside the warehouse. The intelligent ventilation system technology helped collect grain situation data in the grain situation measurement and control system effectively. The mathematical model was established based on the knowledge and experience of experts. According to different ventilation purposes, the ventilation conditions were accurately judged, the best opportunity was captured, and the ventilation equipment and the doors and windows of the warehouses were remotely controlled to carry out intelligent ventilation, and thus avoiding inadequate, ineffective, excessive and harmful ventilation.

Intelligent management and control realizes the data connectivity of Yushu Grain Depot in a timely manner

"The people in the office of our group and branch company can see the real situation inside and outside the warehouse at any time, including if there were the hidden dangers in safe production.” Jiang Yusheng said that the high-definition camera used in the intelligent grain warehouse could be zoom in 23 times so that even an ant can be seen clearly.

The online monitoring platform of the intelligent grain warehouse of SINOGRAIN mainly has four functions, i.e., “online monitoring on grain situation”, “online monitoring on safety protection”, “monitoring on grain quantity” and “system management”. The first function is online monitoring on grain situation. The temperature and humidity sensors in the grain warehouse sent back the data to the data center. Then, big data analysis technology realized intelligent prediction and early warning of grain situation and assisted the storekeeper to take scientific grain protection measures. The second function is online monitoring on safe protection. Jilin Branch had more than 4,000 high-definition cameras covering the gates, commanding elevations, weighing rooms, surrounding areas and other key parts of each warehouse, so that monitoring rooms of each branch company could realize the real-time monitoring of the storage capacity, situation, production, operation and public security situation of the warehouses. The third function is monitoring on grain quantity. The high-definition camera could take photos at fixed time every day so as to help people observe the changes of grain quantity in the warehouse, effectively prevent unauthorized use and other illegal operations, and ensure the authenticity of grain quantity. The fourth function is system management. The working time of cameras in the warehouses could be calculated every month, and the monitoring equipment in the warehouse could be managed.

Jiang Yusheng said that the intelligent grain warehouse system not only improved the work efficiency of the warehouses, but also solved the long-term shortage of "information connectivity". The visual operation of big platform realized the transverse comparison and vertical analysis of data, and the effectiveness and real-time of data transmission and verification.

Reporter: Yan Hongyu

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