FermentDT
The product

Intelligence on top of the automation you already paid for

FermentDT is an AI supervisory control system — a digital twin — that layers neural-network soft sensors, predictive modelling, and model-predictive control on top of the PLC/SCADA already running an industrial fermentation. It doesn't replace your control system; it sits on top of it, tells you what's about to go wrong before it does, then steers the process toward a target curve instead of a static setpoint.

Closed-loop control, not monitoring — and fermentation-native, not a horizontal analytics toolkit you build yourself.

How it works

Four moves, around the clock

FermentDT runs a continuous supervisory loop over every tank. It reads, predicts, decides and steers — then reads again, a few seconds later, for as long as the batch is alive.

01
Sense — neural soft sensors
Infer sugar, ethanol and biomass from instruments already on the tank.
02
Predict — the digital twin
A live model runs the batch forward and flags where it's heading off-curve.
03
Decide — model-predictive control
Solves for the feed, heat and air moves that hold the target trajectory.
04
Steer — setpoints to PLC/SCADA
Returns recommended setpoints the operator stays fully in control of.
YOURFERMENTATION01SENSEsoft sensors02PREDICTdigital twin03DECIDEMPC04STEERto PLC

The core difference

A target curve, not a static setpoint

Holding a fixed number is why the same vintage drifts every vintage. FermentDT steers the whole trajectory.

The old waydrifts off-spec
setpoint

One number to hold. The batch wanders around it and nobody knows the end-point is wrong until it's too late to act.

With FermentDTholds the curve
target curve

A small early correction keeps the batch tracking the ideal path — and lands it on the same end-point, every run.

No new probes

Measure what you can't put a sensor on

Neural soft sensors turn the cheap signals you already log into the lab values you'd otherwise sample by hand — continuously, with nothing new in the tank.

Signals you already have
Temperature22.4 °C
pH3.62
Dissolved O₂18%
Pressure · agitationok
running
Neural soft sensor
+ digital twin
Learns your process from your data — accurate in the small-data regimes real plants run in.
Values you couldn't measure
Biomass4.1 g/L
Sugar / °Bx8.1 °Bx
Ethanol6.9 %v/v
Product titertracking

Where it sits

On top of the stack — not in place of it

An optimization layer over the control system you already run. No rip-and-replace, no plant downtime, vendor-neutral by design.

↑ SIGNALS
tank data, read live
↓ SETPOINTS
recommendations back
FermentDT — AI supervisory layer
soft sensors · digital twin · MPC · anomaly detection
NEW
Your PLC / SCADA control
OPC-UA · edge data capture
unchanged
Tanks · sensors · actuators
the plant floor
unchanged

01—06 · What's in the box

The supervisory stack

Six capabilities, one engine — the full loop, packaged.

01
Neural-network soft sensors
Infer fermentation kinetics you can't measure cheaply or continuously — sugar conversion, ethanol, biomass, dissolved-oxygen transfer — from the instrumentation already on the tank. No new probes, no constant manual sampling.
02
Hybrid digital twin
A live model of each vessel that fuses fermentation mechanism with machine learning. It learns your process from your data and stays accurate in the small-data regimes real plants actually operate in.
03
Model-predictive control
Drives the temperature and timing trajectory toward a target curve rather than holding a fixed setpoint — the difference between the same vintage every vintage and hoping this batch behaves like the last.
04
Real-time anomaly detection
Flags stuck, sluggish, or contaminated ferments early, catching pH / acid-ratio and temperature divergence before a batch is lost — the failure mode that costs the most, caught while there's still time to act.
05
Supervisory over PLC/SCADA
Sits on top of the control system you already run instead of competing with it. An optimization layer, not another monitoring screen — vendor-neutral by design.
06
Edge / OPC-UA integration
Connects at the plant floor through standard industrial interfaces and edge data capture, reading tank data in real time and returning setpoint recommendations the operator stays in control of.

Built for your tanks

One closed-loop engine, spoken in your language

Wine

Once-a-year ferments where a stuck or spoiled tank is a vintage you can't redo — and nobody can sample every tank every hour.

Beer & Cider

Year-round, high-throughput fermentation where batch-to-batch consistency and tank turns are the whole economics.

Cannabis & Food-Ag

Emerging precision-fermentation and food processes where repeatable yield and process control gate scale-up.

Industrial fermentation

Larger bioprocess operations running on PLC/SCADA that want closed-loop intelligence without an enterprise rip-and-replace.

On the floor

What it changes

Protect
yield

catch contamination and temperature excursions before they spread across the cellar

Repeat
consistency

predictive control drives every batch toward the same trajectory

Reduce
downtime and manual sampling

fewer 2 a.m. cellar checks, fewer overnight surprises

Zero
capex wall

software on top of automation you already paid for

See it run

The live demo lab

Step inside the FermentDT live demo — a simulated digital-twin dashboard that shows the system the way an operator would see it. Watch live fermentation telemetry stream from a virtual tank while the soft sensors infer what the hardware can't, an anomaly flag lights up as a temperature excursion pulls the batch off-trajectory, and the model-predictive controller proposes the correction that brings it back to the target curve.

Enter the live demo →
tank-04 · primary ferment live
temp22.4 °C
Brix (soft)8.1 °Bx
ethanol (soft)6.9 %v/v
anomalynominal