Growlink

Each project is priced according to requirements. There is a monthly subscription fee for control and automation requirements.

Each solution is bespoke, fit for purpose to suit grower's requirements. Installation is likely to be installed by vendor.

Most of our solutions can be monitored and maintained remotely, advising and potentially fixing a fault before the farmer even knows there is a problem. If, however maintenance is required we have technical staff all around Australia. We are available for support 24/7.

Any source of Mains OR Alternative Energy

Will depend on project and location. Likely Wifi or 4G

We can work with various data ownership policies, depending on customer requirements.

We maintain a secure cloud environment where data is curated, quality controlled and stored, so it be re- purposed for a positive benefit.

MBD Industries originally developed the Asta process biology and engaged a multinational engineering consultant to project manage a commercial scale plant near Ayr Qld. Their initial estimate for the project was $47M against an available budget of $13M. In a bid to recover project feasibility, MBD engaged The Project Office (TPO), (Parent company to Enesys and GrowLink) to review and reduce the scope of work to a bare bones infrastructure, with no automation or process redundancy. The consultant’s estimate reduced to $35M. At this stage the project was not going to proceed, and the consultant was let go. In a last bid save the project, MBD asked TPO/ Enesys to completely rescope the entire process and estimate as if TPO was the primary consultant and contractor (in keeping with TPO past practice). TPO had complete freedom to innovate, reduced the estimate to $15.5M, and retained full automation and process redundancy. A project budget was agreed at $13M with no contingency and the project was successfully completed early 2018 for $15.5M. Part of the Asta project included 260 highly controlled and hygienically sealed vertical growth columns (VGC). The independent control, monitoring and data logging of each VGC included: Automatic filling of inoculum, water or chilled water and simultaneous dosing of any mass ratio of four nutrients. Automatic sampling of pH, ORP, tank level, and temperature. Automatic % ratio of CO2 and Air, Blanketing and Anti-vacuum Valves. Automatic emptying and transfer to Raceways. The cost of conventional Instruments and PLC infrastructure to read so much data and automatically control over 1,500 valves would have crippled the project. TPO/ Enesys installed its own distributed control system called CubeLink ( key component of GrowLink) as a large-scale trial of this home grown system. One Cubelink module was mounted under each of the 260 tanks to control the equipment. The CubeLink modules only require a common three-wire data cable and a common power cable for the valves. In this way PLC costs were reduced by 80% and cabling costs were reduced by 90% because the average cable run length was reduced from 35m to 1.5m. TPO/ Enesys installed 450 CubeLink modules in the project to monitor and control 3,200 devices. CubeLink and CubeHMI are capable of winning awards on their own.