For Facility / Technical Managers
Your equipment runs better when it’s understood—not just monitored.
Sera watches your climate systems, actuators, boilers, vents, and sensors 24/7, spotting performance drifts, correlating failures to crop impact, and triggering the right fixes—so you maintain uptime, cut emergency calls, and extend asset life without constant manual checks.
The challenge
You keep the physical greenhouse running: climate computers, heating/cooling loops, ventilation motors, irrigation pumps, dehumidifiers, curtains, boilers, and hundreds of sensors. The daily grind looks like this:
Chasing intermittent or subtle faults—vent motors lagging 10–20%, boiler short-cycling, sensor drift, pipe temperature drops—that only show up after crop impact.
Diagnosing root causes across systems: Is a heating lag from boiler load-shedding, valve sticking, air in the loop, or external wind fighting vents?
Prioritizing maintenance: Which issues threaten yield or energy cost right now vs. which can wait until the next planned window?
Coordinating fixes under pressure: Alerts flood in during sunrise/sunset ramps or solar spikes; you waste time filtering noise and explaining to growers why something isn’t “just broken.”
Documenting everything for compliance, warranties, or insurance—while juggling spreadsheets, service logs, and verbal handoffs.
Scaling across sites or expansions: More equipment means more blind spots and reactive breakdowns without proportional technician headcount.
Reactive maintenance eats budget, shortens equipment life, and pulls focus from preventive strategy and optimization.
How Sera helps
Sera ingests real-time telemetry from your entire hardware stack—Priva, Hoogendoorn, Ridder, custom sensors, energy meters—and reasons over it continuously alongside climate, irrigation, and weather data. It surfaces hardware behavior in grower-relevant context, flags true anomalies early, and automates or guides precise interventions—all aligned with your operational protocols.
Proactive equipment health monitoring
Continuous pattern detection: Spots subtle degradations before thresholds are breached.
"Vent motor in Block 4 consistently lags 12–18% during opening commands—response time +45 seconds vs. baseline. Likely actuator wear or control signal delay."
"Boiler cycling frequency up 30% this week during low-load periods—correlated to pipe temp instability and minor yield drag in downstream zones."
Root-cause diagnosis tied to crop impact
Ask or get alerted with full context:
"Why did heating lag setpoint by 1.8 °C at sunrise today?" → "Lag caused by boiler short-cycling under energy management rule + delayed pump circulation. Impact: RH +7% and transpiration stall in Zone 2 for 38 min. Recommend raise minimum runtime or adjust load-shed threshold."
"Is the dehumidifier underperforming or is this a sensor issue?" → "Dehumidifier runtime normal; RH sensor in Zone 3 reading 9% high vs. cross-validated units—recommend recalibration."
Smart, filtered alerts and orchestration
Noise-free notifications: Only high-impact issues reach you or techs, with urgency and next steps.
"Priority: Repeated vent lag in Sector B—already caused 2 deviations this week. Escalate to maintenance + suppress related climate alerts until resolved."
Automated workflows:
Threshold hit → push diagnostic checklist to tech mobile + create work order + log resolution for audit.
Recurring pattern → schedule preventive task (e.g., "Clean filters in Block 3—3rd occurrence in 30 days").
Maintenance history and benchmarking
Unified log: Every command, response time, cycle count, and deviation versioned in one place.
Ask for trends: "Show actuator response times for all vents in Zone A last 90 days" or "Compare boiler efficiency this cycle vs. last winter."
Compliance-ready: Exportable audit trails showing when issues were detected, diagnosed, and resolved.
The results
Shift from reactive to preventive: Catch degrading performance days or weeks earlier—fewer breakdowns, lower emergency repair costs, longer asset life.
Reduce downtime impact: Issues fixed before they cascade into yield loss or quality defects—tighter environmental control, more predictable output.
Cut wasted effort: Suppress nuisance alerts, prioritize real threats, and give technicians clear diagnostics—fewer site visits, faster resolution times.
Optimize energy and inputs: Surface hardware inefficiencies that drive waste (short-cycling, uneven distribution, lag)—direct path to lower OpEx.
Scale reliably: New equipment or sites integrate seamlessly; your maintenance logic scales without adding complexity or headcount.
You keep systems performing at peak while spending less time firefighting hardware.
