1 Introduction
Topics Covered in this Chapter
▪ System Overview
▪ Contact information
▪ General Safety Precautions and Usage
▪ Telecommunication Advice
▪ Terms of Use
▪ Inspecting Your Received System
▪ Ordering Information
System Overview
EDGE system is an agricultural site management system designed to monitor and control a farm environ-
ment. EDGE system is designed to be permanently connected to the main voltages by the Expansion
Boxes. EDGE system could be monitored and controlled remotely by Ethernet (Wide Area Network
(WAN) by Internet provider) or / and controlled locally by LAN (Local Area Network) or WLAN
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(Wireless
Local Area Network).
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The main functions of the complete system are:
• Animal environment control functions: temperature controlling (cooling, heating, humidity control-
ling), lightning, ventilation controlling
• Variety of monitoring functions (configurable inputs: 0-5V, 4-20mA, pulse, dry contact, temperature
• Feeding functions: food distribution and controlling
• Scale functions: measuring the weight of the birds (Bird scale), measuring the weight of storage
food (Bin scale)
• Production surveillance and alert functions: emails sending
The minimum EDGE system is composed of a Main Controller and Expansion Boxes (I/O modules) which
are described below:
Main Controller
The Main Controller is the “brains” of the EDGE system. It includes a CPU and a capacitive color LCD
touch screen which allows the user to monitor and control the system’s status and functionalities. The
Main Controller has Ethernet ports, an Ethernet Wireless option (WLAN at 2.4 /5 GHz) , USB ports for
data storage or to connect external USB module, an alarm relay, RS485 links to communicate to Expan-
sion Plug-In Modules in the Expansion Box. It can be electrically supplied either by the Expansion Box
through the RS485 communication networks low voltage communication cables (24Vdc), or by an exter-
nal power supply (EDGE PSU 24V 36W).
890–00687 EDGE 2
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1. In some countries the WiFi link is not available because of regulation restriction due to not having the country telecommu-
nication certification.
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