With Czechs among the many largest beer drinkers on the earth, brewer Plzensky Prazdroj plans to put in sensors which is able to accumulate information on beer move, in addition to tube and faucet temperatures.
This might be despatched to a cloud database and analysed to make suggestions on bettering a pub’s methods, stated Jakub Zaoral who’s main the Asahi-owned brewery’s Smart Taproom mission.
Plzensky Prazdroj hopes that by making changes its pubs will save as much as 30% of the vitality wanted for cooling and tapping their beer, a objective made extra urgent by rising vitality prices.
“We will ‘x-ray’ and observe 45 pubs using 1,200 sensors which gives us the exact numbers, how our tapping system consumes electric energy and we will relate this with the beer flow and its consumption in the pub,” stated Zaoral.
The system makes use of Internet of Drinks options by start-up agency Smart Technology, which makes use of ultrasound metering and supplies info on the quantity of beer tapped, sanitation intervals and the state of the cooling system.
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At Prague’s Katr pub, the place the system is already in use, supervisor Michal Reznicek is hoping for an affect on rising prices, that are impacting beer, meals and employees.
“Our goal and wish is that this project helps us to exist further,” Reznicek stated.