Bakery Dough Fermentation Monitoring
RFID hardware that survives a bakery floor, tracking every dough bowl from mixer to tipper.
2025 · IoT hardware & software design
The problem
A commercial bakery had no reliable way to track dough bowls through mixing, fermentation and tipping, and fermentation timing directly affects product quality. The factory floor (heat, moisture, metal everywhere) is hostile territory for off-the-shelf tracking hardware.
What I built
- Custom RFID IoT hardware designed to survive a harsh factory environment
- Three strategic scanning stations at the mixer, fermentation room and tipper
- PLC integration tying scan events into the production line
- Real-time dashboard of bowl locations, elapsed fermentation time and production status
Built with RFID, PLC Integration, IoT, Real-time Monitoring, Industrial Hardware, C#.
How it landed
Automated tracking replaced manual monitoring, giving the bakery complete visibility into bowl movement and fermentation timing.