An adult chicken usually has 7,000+ feathers.
One Locus client processes close to 300,000 chickens every day at one plant – resulting in a snow globe effect with 2,100,000,000 feathers. That must have an impact on the surrounding air, and air permits.
Locus software can manage the data and compliance for waste management, refrigerants, GHGs, VOCs, wastewater treatment, and energy use at poultry plants like this, but we hadn’t factored feathers into our toolbox. Fortunately, we engineered Locus Platform to empower users to conceive and create their own apps on our EHS Compliance Software.
In this case, our client created their own Locus app to track the daily particulate matter of chickens, alongside Criteria Pollutants, HAPs, and Greenhouse Gases, as applicable, for 25 source types (equipment or operation types). For the sake of this article, let’s call their app “Poultry PM.” The client uses Locus Platform + Poultry PM to monitor data pertaining to feed dust, feathers, and all the related course and fine particles emitted at different stages of poultry processing. The data and built-in Air Exceedance dashboard help the client comply with CAA and state agencies, and they can combine the “Poultry PM” data with other plant data to generate their NAAQS, NSR, Title V, Title VI, and GHG reports.
Can non-technical people create their own Locus apps?
Yes! If you know how to layout slides, draw a flow chart, or build a spreadsheet using formulae, sorting, and tables and charts, then you are what the industry calls a “User Developer.” Locus empowers authorized domain experts to build applications within our fully configurable Locus Platform using familiar drag and drop functionality. We provide built-in form, workflow, and report builders that are tailored for environmental purposes – enabling anyone to build and deploy environmental software applications that exactly match their needs.
With Locus, your organization and its user developers can:
- Drag-and-drop entities to assemble applications.
- Build ESG, EHS, or any other apps with the help of visual tools that empower both business and technical users.
- Leverage no-code integration to connect and act upon data across databases, cloud services, and legacy systems without data migration, or use APIs to tie in data.
- Deliver enterprise-grade security, scalability, and reliability to support mission-critical business apps.
With Locus, our clients can easily build complex workflows to suit their organization’s unique needs – from feathers to … anything.
What will you create?
Next up: How a water utility created their own “Bench Sheet” app in Locus Water.
Locus is the only self-funded water, air, soil, biological, energy, and waste EHS software company that is still owned and managed by its founder. The brightest minds in environmental science, embodied carbon, CO2 emissions, refrigerants, and PFAS hang their hats at Locus, and they’ve helped us to become a market leader in EHS software. Every client-facing employee at Locus has an advanced degree in science or professional EHS experience, and they incubate new ideas every day – such as how machine learning, AI, blockchain, and the Internet of Things will up the ante for EHS software, ESG, and sustainability.
