STiR coffee and tea magazine

32 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 2, 2017 (April/May) • Latest CCD technology, full color RGB sorts any coffee, arabica and robusta. • Advanced LED illumination system and electronic background with 16,000,000 colors. • Remote monitoring and bi-directional control through LAN and Wi-Fi enabled devices. • Tropicalized, rugged and reliable for harsh environments. • Local service in more than 25 countries. Delta Color Sorters profit in every bean! put even more DeltaTechnology.com | 1602 Townhurst | Houston, Texas 77043 USA | +1.713.464.7407 | Fax: +1.713.461.6753 Always a Step Ahead US Roaster profiles can be uploaded and shared in the Internet cloud "You can give them the tools but they're still left to the art of using the roaster," Vo- gel said. "Someone still has to be there to get the most they can out of a particular bean." US Roaster climbs to the cloud US Roaster Corp., meanwhile, is preparing to push roasting profiles to the internet cloud to make it easy for their customers to download success. "We're working with several roast masters and sharing information from roaster to roaster in the cloud," US Roaster Corp. owner Dan Joliff said. "We want to encourage our roasting customers to share ideas." Three top roastmasters are creating profiles designed to fit a variety of outcomes. Those profiles then will be shared with customers who will be able to download and adjust each one to meet their own needs. The concept received good reviews when demonstrated recently at CoffeeFest in Nashville, Tenn., Joliff said. "We're seeing a lot of demand from people in smaller shops who want to roast smaller amounts and have fresh coffee," he said. "The profiles contain information about different temperature set points, fan speed as well as a percentage for how hard the heaters should be working." Larger roaster customers will benefit as well, he said, once they are able to share profiles between roasters and as well as between facilities. The Oklahoma-based company's mini roasters can hold as many as 10 profiles. Larger, industrial shop roasters can accommodate more than 1,000 profiles. Should roast masters want more, they would simply download more from the cloud, he said. Accessing the database will be as easy as going online. "The cloud will be a public network in order for users to access it from their own home," Joliff said. "It will be set up such that users can only access the profiles by using our software, however." Plans include creating a desktop application and eventually a mobile app that will allow users to create, share, and download profiles through a friendly, intuitive inter- face. To update profiles in the roaster, the first version will require users to use the ap- plication on a laptop or desktop computer and then update the profiles to the roaster using a USB wire. Eventually, the roasters will be able to wirelessly update the profiles via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or both. Joliff sees profile sharing as a way to meet a growing demand as more businesses enter the expanding specialty coffee market. "I see more and more people getting into the industry," he said. "We will have more coffee roasters than doughnut shops because more people like good coffee. Roastmasters in different locations will be able to share the same profiles." And, he said, new roasting technology is enabling all roasters to produce better coffee. "I'm embracing it," Joliff said. "If they want to be artisan and be hand-operated, great. I'll help you. If you want to comput- erize it and run on a graph and I'll help you make it happen." Looking ahead As technology continues to ex- pand, manufacturers already are looking ahead to new opportu- nities. "We're asking ourselves what can we do next in terms of data acquisition and analysis," Loring c.e.o. Bob Austin said. "We think more can be done in the future. We need the ability to predict (roasting) results to get where they want to be faster at lower costs. Roasters need to be able to count on the machine to perform the way they want."

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