Silo monitoring

💡 Solution Description

The Silo Monitoring template is your accelerator for grain storage management. Whether you operate a single farm with a handful of silos or a regional grain terminal with dozens of bins, this template gives you the visualization, alarm logic, and 3D context needed to keep every silo of grain healthy and your operators informed.

🔗 Related items

This template depends on the 3D Model Viewer widget, which powers the dashboard — it renders the GLB model, binds each entity in the datasource to a named mesh through its meshId attribute, and uses per-entity color, tooltip, and label functions plus a “Use for level” fill animation to bring the scene to life. This related item is required to use the solution template, but you don’t need to install it yourself: it will be installed automatically when you install this template.

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✨ Highlights

Stop walking the catwalk with a flashlight and a clipboard. The Silo Monitoring template turns every grain silo into a digital twin in minutes. The solution deploys a complete monitoring system that visualizes fill level, internal climate, and active alarms on a single dashboard — with interactive 3D silo models and a cutaway view that shows exactly where each sensor sits inside the silo. 🌾📊

Press Install to spin up 4 fully wired grain silos with 11 demo sensors and see the dashboard come alive immediately.

📦 What’s inside the box?

We have auto-generated a complete grain-storage monitoring ecosystem for you:

• 🏭 3D Silo Yard Overview: A main dashboard showing all 4 silos as interactive 3D objects, color-coded by alarm state (🟢 green when healthy, 🔴 red when any alarm is active). Coloring rules are configurable directly in the 3D widget settings.
• 🌽 Cutaway Silo View: Click any silo to open its detailed page with a cutaway 3D model that exposes the current grain level and shows up to 3 Temperature & Humidity sensors placed inside the silo, each color-coded by its own alarm state. The level sensor itself is not rendered on the model — its readings drive the grain-level animation and propagate to the parent silo.
• 🌡️ Climate Intelligence: Combined Temperature & Humidity sensors per silo to catch spoilage risk, condensation, and grain hotspots before they damage your crop.
• 📏 Grain-Level Tracking: Dedicated Level sensors per silo that drive the cutaway fill animation and feed low/high level alarm rules.
• 🧠 Dynamic Thresholds via Attributes: Each device carries its own temperatureMin/Max, humidityMin/Max, and levelMin/Max attributes — change limits right on the device details page without touching device-profile logic.
• 🚨 Pre-wired Alarms: Out-of-the-box alarm rules for high/low temperature, high/low humidity, and high/low level, plus alarm propagation up to the parent silo asset.
• 🎬 Realistic Demo Data: Built-in emulators generate 7 days of telemetry — 9 sensors stay healthy, 2 sensors deliberately drift outside thresholds so you can experience the alarm flow from day one.

🌟 Why use this template?

• ⚡ Zero-Math Configuration: Forget writing rule chains from scratch. Threshold values live on the device as attributes — adjust them from the device details page and the alarm rules pick them up automatically.
• 🧱 Bring Your Own Silo Yard: The shipped layout is 4 silos with up to 3 climate sensors each, but you are not locked in. The 3D models used by the widgets are published in the open thingsboard-silo-glb-models repository, which also ships a Claude Code skill that lets end users generate their own GLB models with any number of silos and any number of sensors per silo — the dashboard logic, color coding, and alarm propagation work the same way for your custom model.
• 🛡️ Operational Continuity: Catch spoilage conditions (high temperature + high humidity) and stock-outs (low level) early, so you can intervene before grain is lost or a delivery is missed.

✨ Key Features

• 3D Visualization, Two Levels of Detail: Fleet-level view of all silos colored by overall health, plus a cutaway per-silo view that places sensors exactly where they live inside the silo 📊.
• Device-Level Drill-Down: From the cutaway, click any sensor to open the device details page — current readings, history charts, and an editable threshold form.
• Consistent Color Language: The same green / red color rule applies to silo objects on the yard view and to sensors inside the cutaway. One glance, full understanding.
• Asset Roll-Up: Alarms raised on a sensor automatically propagate to the parent Silo asset, so the yard view reflects the worst-case status of its sensors.

🌍 Real-World Applications

This template serves as a robust foundation for grain-storage scenarios:

• 🌾 On-Farm Grain Silos: Monitor temperature, humidity, and remaining capacity in on-farm bins to prevent spoilage and plan deliveries after harvest.

• 🚜 Cooperative & Commercial Storage: Track multiple silos across a co-op or commercial yard, with alarm propagation up to each silo for at-a-glance triage.

• 🏭 Grain Terminals & Elevators: Bring large silo yards under one dashboard, generate the matching 3D layout with the companion skill, and supervise dozens of silos with the same color-coded language.