Weighbridge tickets – digital capture for biogas plants
The weighbridge ticket software from Biotaktix enables fully digital recording of all weighing processes directly via the app – no paper, no radio hand‑held transmitter, and no staff at the scale. Drivers record weighings on‑site with a mobile device; the data are instantly available digitally for further processing.
Disadvantages of traditional methods
Radio hand‑held transmitters provide only limited data entry (usually numeric codes), no structured assignment of customer, item or field, and require extensive programming effort. Extensions such as GPS integration or additional data are not possible; lost devices incur extra costs.
Paper‑based weighbridge tickets are error‑prone due to handwriting and illegible entries. Data must be transferred manually into other systems – for example for mass balance, stock evaluation or billing – which costs time and creates transfer errors. Papers can be lost or damaged.
Benefits of Biotaktix’s digital weighbridge ticket solution
- Drivers capture all weighing data via the app directly on the vehicle
- Automatic assignment to customer, item and field
- No manual data transfer to downstream systems
- Automatic import of data into stock evaluation, mass balance and billing – all in one system
- Integrable with GPS data and other operational data
- Specifically suited for biogas plants
Case study: Bioenergie Heek-Ahle GmbH & Co. KG
Bioenergie Heek-Ahle is a jointly operated biomethane plant in western Münsterland, involving 47 farmers. Every day the shareholders deliver substrate and receive digestate back; the revenue distribution is based on the recorded quantities. Two vehicle scales are directly integrated into the Biotaktix platform – each farmer weighs in via the app themselves, without staff at the scale.
Managing Director Christoph Wischemann summarizes the benefit: “With Biotaktix our farmers can easily weigh themselves and we have all relevant data available directly in the office, e.g., for GHG accounting.”
In addition to the weighing processes, Biotaktix handles the entire substrate and digestate management of the plant – from stock administration to shareholder billing. The plant is scientifically supported by FH Münster and is considered a flagship project of the biogas sector.