Agrozone: What and Why Ozone?

Innovations in Ozone Generation and Water Purification with Unitronics PLCs and UniCloud IIoT

Agrozone appears at first glance to be a normal Dutch company, but appearances can be deceiving—behind its doors lies a hub of groundbreaking innovation. Located in Loenen, Agrozone artificially generates lightning in a controlled environment to create ozone on-site. They then use this ozone to purify water in a natural and green way.

The system is cloud-connected, enabling Agrozone to better serve their customers and to optimize their process through the smart application of IoT.

What is Ozone? How is it used?

Oxygen molecules (O₂) consist of two oxygen atoms, while ozone (O₃) contains three. Ozone occurs naturally in the environment and can be generated in several ways. During thunderstorms, the extremely high voltages produce ozone, giving the air a distinct fresh scent after a lightning strike. And that is exactly what Agrozone mimics in a controlled environment.

What is so special about ozone?

In the Agrozone application, ozone reacts with fungi and bacteria present in the process and wastewater of a greenhouse. As a result, this contamination is neutralized, and the remaining byproduct is healthy, O₂ oxygen.

Why are Cloud Connectivity & Remote Access important

Generating ozone through lightning/high voltage is a precise process. Additionally, ozone is very volatile and quickly reverts to oxygen. It is therefore important for Agrozone to be able to closely monitor the process and calibrate the system both when it is installed and when changes occur. For Agrozone, the UniCloud IIoT platform from Unitronics proved to be the perfect combination—providing both insightful data visualization and remote access capabilities

UniCloud helps to streamline their calibration processand reduces the need for Agrozone to travel around the world to customer sites.

Now, by examining data together with their customers, Agrozone has improved both support and customer satisfaction..

Since Agrozone was already using Unitronics PLCs to control the system, the integration with their machines was quicky and easy.

Enhanced Sales & Customer ConfidenceThe new IIoT features enabled Agrozone's sales to market their product even better.

Not only are customers confident that Agrozone continues to incorporate the best of new technology in their products; customers now have direct insight into their system’s performance via their mobile devices, benefitting from increased transparency and peace of mind.

Automatic notifications alert them to potential issues, ensuring proactive maintenance—and great reassurance for both the user and Agrozone.