Cold storage
Potatoes- Apples
- Onions
- Pears, and more
Protect your harvest in the cold rooms you already have
Actus ELENA is installed in your existing operation. Choose monitoring with alerts and recommendations, or add automatic CO₂ and humidity control to act in time.
Example of ELENA-MC in an existing cold room storing potatoes for industrial processing at 10–11 °C. Actus does not build the room or supply the refrigeration plant.
Crops
One solution for different postharvest processes
Actus ELENA adapts to each process, showing critical conditions and helping you spot risks before they become losses.
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Ripening
- Bananas
- Avocados
- Mangoes
- Tomatoes, and more
Precooling
- Table grapes
- Berries
- Vegetables
- Cucumbers, and more
The challenge
The harvest can be won or lost after leaving the field
During storage, temperature, humidity, and CO₂ affect product quality. Without continuous visibility, changes may go unnoticed until losses have already occurred.
Two ways to protect your product
ELENA works with your cold room, without replacing it
Both options use Actus sensors across storage zones to measure air and pulp temperature, humidity, and CO₂. One cabinet per site records the data; its backup battery keeps sensing and sends a power-loss alert. Your existing refrigeration system remains in charge of cooling.
Monitoring and alerts
Continuous visibility, history, alerts, and recommendations help your team decide and act. ELENA-M does not switch equipment on or off; your existing refrigeration controller operates independently.
- See conditions in every zone
- Early alerts so your team can intervene
- Operational management included on web and mobile
- Results depend on your team's response
Monitoring and control
Everything in monitoring, plus automatic actions through a control module. With the Actus air-exchange system, fresh air enters and CO₂-rich air is exhausted. It can activate Actus humidification based on VPD and send temperature setpoint ramps to the existing thermostat.
- Operational management included on web and mobile
- Actus air-exchange system, quoted for your site
- Actus humidification available separately
- Does not include or directly operate the refrigeration plant
Included with ELENA-M and ELENA-MC
Manage your cold-room operations on web and mobile
Beyond environmental conditions, your team can track product and storage activities in one platform.
- Inventory: record product intakes and outtakes.
- Room layout: see where lots and spaces are located in each room.
- Anti-sprout treatments: keep a log of applications.
- Company-wide view: company users can see every cold room and its status.
Actus sensors
Understand the air and your product
Two complementary measurements to understand what is happening in your cold room.
Actus Airsense
Air temperature · Humidity · CO₂
Monitor conditions around your product. Its readings help detect changes and guide air exchange and humidification with the monitoring and control option.
Actus CoreSense
Internal product temperature
Measure the temperature inside your harvest and distinguish it from air temperature. Sensors are placed by room and zone to suit your operation.
Air temperature10.6 °CIn range
Pulp temperature10.4 °CIn range
Keep temperature in view
See air and product temperature to catch deviations early. With ELENA-M, your team receives alerts and acts; with ELENA-MC, setpoint ramps are sent to the existing thermostat via Modbus. ELENA does not switch compressors or evaporator fans directly.
Benefits
Visibility first. Then the action you need.
Both options show what is happening to your product in each zone. ELENA-M helps your team respond; ELENA-MC automates supported control actions.
Humidity at the right time
ELENA-M shows conditions so your team can intervene. With ELENA-MC and Actus humidification, VPD-based pulses add moisture when appropriate and stop when condensation risk rises. Humidification equipment is supplied separately.
Manage CO₂ levels
Both options detect elevated CO₂. With ELENA-MC and the Actus air-exchange system, the room can automatically bring in fresh air and exhaust CO₂-rich air according to the stage of the storage cycle.
Economic impact
What could avoided dehydration loss be worth?
In one potato storage case with ELENA-MC, dehydration loss after three months fell from about 10% to about 5%: a relative reduction of roughly 50%. Enter your figures to explore a scenario; results may vary.
10% → 5%Dehydration loss observed for one customer before and after installing ELENA-MC.
Estimate a scenario for your operation
Automatic-control scenario. The 50% figure is based on the dehydration case above; it is not a guarantee.
Estimated potential savings per storage cycle (~3 months)Enter your price per kg
Estimated loss falls from 50 to 25 tonnes.
Enter your price per kg to estimate savings.
Illustrative estimate for the same volume and period. It excludes other causes of loss and does not guarantee results.
Review my case with Actus
Elena, how are my cold rooms doing?
Elena AI brings together readings from your rooms, identifies risks, and recommends actions. With ELENA-M, your team responds to alerts; with ELENA-MC, configured control actions can also run automatically.
Elena, how is my cold room?
Room 7 reads 10.6 °C air temperature and 10.4 °C pulp temperature. CO₂ reached 12,323 ppm; check the extraction system to bring levels back into range.
Made for the field or the office
Actus ELENA adapts to each process, showing critical conditions and helping you spot risks before they become losses.
Let's protect your harvest together.
Schedule a personalized demo and see how Actus ELENA can help your postharvest operation.