Never lose a tank again.
FermentDT is an AI digital twin that supervises your existing fermentation control — inferring what your sensors can't measure, flagging trouble early, and steering every batch toward the same result. No new hardware. No rip-and-replace.
Closed-loop control, not monitoring — and fermentation-native, not a horizontal analytics toolkit you build yourself.
Built in a Protein Industries Canada–backed consortium, validated on a real Okanagan operation.
The system
A supervisory layer over the controllers you already run
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
yield — catch contamination and temperature excursions before they spread across the cellar
consistency — predictive control drives every batch toward the same trajectory
downtime and manual sampling — fewer 2 a.m. cellar checks, fewer overnight surprises
capex wall — software on top of automation you already paid for
Where it fits
No incumbent sits in this square
vs. pharma-AI bioprocess platforms
DataHow, Sartorius BioPAT, and Aizon build strong soft sensors and hybrid models — but for GxP biopharma, mostly advisory or hardware-coupled, rarely autonomous control over plant PLC/SCADA. FermentDT brings that class of capability to food, beverage, and industrial fermentation no pharma vendor serves — vendor-neutral, over the controllers you already run.
vs. enterprise process-control giants
Aspen DMC3 is real multivariable control — but enterprise-heavy, six-figure, slow to deploy, and built for large regulated plants, not fermentation biology. FermentDT is fermentation-native and sized for a pilot SKU, not a multi-year rollout.
vs. beverage monitoring tools
PLAATO, BrewIQ, and Ekos own the beverage customer base and the data capture — but stop at monitoring and benchmarking. They show you the dashboard; FermentDT closes the loop, predicting what's about to happen and steering around it.
vs. generic SCADA & DIY analytics
Your control system holds setpoints; horizontal toolkits like Seeq and TrendMiner let your team try to build a soft-sensor on the historian themselves. FermentDT is fermentation-specific control intelligence delivered as a product — not a screen, and not a toolkit you have to build on.
Why trust this
Backing, a real pilot, and open science
Proven on a live operation
FermentDT is being built and validated through Ai26.10 — a 12-month, $1.94M consortium with Crush Dynamics, backed by Protein Industries Canada — on a real industrial fermentation, not a lab bench.
A failure mode operators know
Undetected contamination and temperature excursions can take out a meaningful share of a tank farm in a single season. Catching that early — before it spreads — is the wedge.
The science is in the open
The fermentation science and algorithms behind the soft sensors and digital twin are documented publicly — read the methods, not just the marketing.
Meet us
Monthly Fermentation Office Hours · Okanagan industry events · Future Food-Tech (2027 launch).
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