greenBOX MASTER

The greenBOX MASTER is the world's most advanced control system for industrial ventilation. It can handle just about anything: up to four independent ventilation systems with up to 180 gates.

Super advanced functions are built-in: precise closed-loop system regulation, calibration wizard measuring system and fan curves, provides an optimal mapping of the system to fan curves; air velocity & volume measurements, automatic, temperature-controlled winter mode, and communication to Building Automation Systems. It also supports cascading fans, parallel fans, and lead & backup fans (up to 36 VFDs can be used).

Ecogate Systems are energy-efficient, cloud-connected, and remotely accessible.

OVERVIEW

The greenBOX MASTER is based on a modern, rugged, industrial PC with simple remote access.
It can manage four dust/fume/mist ventilation systems with up to 180 workstations/gates. Measurements of all ventilation values are included. The greenBOX fulfills NFPA 664 and NFPA 652 requirements. Ecogate Systems controlled by a greenBOX have evolved, and are now established as the lowest-cost dust/fume/mist collection systems to own and operate safely.

greenBOX® MASTER can manage all types of industrial exhaust ventilation systems in metalworking, woodworking, welding, oil mist, fume, pharmaceutical, food processing, and other industries.

Data Analytics, Cloud backup; Daily emails for Maintenance, Monthly emails for Management; Remote Access from your smartphone or any other devices; Ethernet network connection; rugged industrial PC with an industrial version of Windows operating system (Windows 10 IoT Enterprise); AirVolume/Velocity/Pressure measurements at each smart gate, branches, and main duct; Optional precise averaging air velocity sensor (measures over entire duct diameter); Maintaining minimum transport air velocities automatically in nine duct zones. Over network software updates.

Compatible with Ecogate Smart Gates, Ecogate Sensors, and with Power MASTER VFDs. The gates are connected by daisy-chain using Ecogate MASTER cable.

ENERGY-EFFICIENT

Excellent User
Interface, Remote Access

The greenBOX MASTER has a 15” touch screen, you can also connect your device and use remote access.

Cloud Connection,
Backup

The greenBOX MASTER collects data for workstation utilization, electricity consumption, fan and filter pressures, air velocities, warning & error log every 10 seconds to the cloud server. Users can receive daily emails intended for maintenance, and monthly emails intended for management; the *.csv file is attached to the daily email; Users can access their data at www.gbmbase.com - charts, tables, etc. Data can be downloaded from www.gbmbase.com (in 5-minutes resolution) in PDF or CSV files. Every time the setup of the greenBOX is changed, a backup is made to the cloud server automatically.

Simple OTA
Updates

Fast, Over The Network software update is implemented, and updates can be done by the user.

Best-in-Class Ventilation
Values Measurements

Our best-in-industry pressure, air volume, and air velocity measurements are available via User Interface, DataMining, and included in daily emails.

Ventilation System
Calibration Wizard

Easy to use setup wizard will allow you to set up the entire extraction system in five minutes (for example, Modbus addresses of the gates are automatically assigned, no DIP switches meddling like on other systems).

100% Reliable Industry Standard Modbus Comm.

The Modbus communication is industry “gold” standard for reliable, interference free communication in an industrial environment that allows daisy-chaining all gates. As industry standard 24V DC power supply is carried over the same daisy-chained cable, no local power supply and workstation is necessary making installation cost effective and safe.

Heavy-Duty Gates Operated by 24V DC Motor

Instead of pneumatically operated gates, the greenBOX MASTER uses heavy-duty Ecogate gates with 24V DC smart motors. The pneumatically operated gates are expensive to operate as compressed air is expensive, and they do not have limit switches, therefore the control system and user do not know if the gate is open or closed. Pneumatically operated gates are not heavy-duty for long-term industrial use.

Ecogate Uses Most Reliable Industrial VFDs

We are using the most reliable industrial VFDs produced by Swedish–Swiss company ABB with custom Ecogate software to intelligently start/stop a dust collector on demand, monitor fan and filter pressure, monitor fan consumption, and protect the duct system against implosion for customer safety, etc.

Auto-Start / Auto Stop

The greenBOX starts/stops the extraction system on-demand based on information from workstation activity sensors. The dust collector also starts/stops on demand to save electricity and to decrease wear & tear.

Support & Service
Agreement

Ecogate offers three levels of the Service Agreement. At the highest Platinum Level in addition to DataMining, Analytics, and discount for Ecogate gates and parts, our service technician will visit you once per year and optimize the system for best performance, and the highest electricity savings.

STANDARD FEATURES

The gates are equipped with Open & Closed limit switches. The limit switches' position is indicated to operators, transferred to the greenBOX control system for a safe performance (most competing systems do not have this option).

Minimal airflow is managed in the entire duct system, and separately in each duct zone (competing systems do not have this option).

Reading & writing all VFD parameters from User Interface (it means you can program the VFD parameters remotely).

Data from the system is collected to Ecogate Cloud Server and reported to the user.

System setup file is automatically backed up to Ecogate Cloud Server.

As an insurance policy, the greenBOX can be set to use the “Cleaning” function (all gates open, fan at full speed; in regular intervals, deep cleaning one duct zone at a time, cleaning at system stop).

Fan On delay, Fan Off delay function.

Gate On/Off delay function.

Monitoring of the Fan total static pressure and filter differential pressure (with the option to set Warning and Error pressure values for Minimum and Maximum, both for Fan and Filter to allow practical information to be logged; at the Error pressure value the system will stop).

Workstation activity sensor input can be set as Normally Open (NO), or Normally Closed (NC), and short pulse can be extended by Input Timer function.

Gate limit switches, motor current, voltage, opening/closing time, electronics temperature, drop pressure, air velocity, and air volume are monitored and reported to the system.

“Compensation” option will increase suction if a particular gate is active (available per each gate, settings is in percentage).

Selectable function if gates should open or close at system stop (open gates are preferable for safety, but sometimes closing the gates might be preferable if moisture entering the factory can create problems).

Event Log: all important events are logged to the file, accessible via User Interface, it is easy to see what is happening.