Hazelnut processing plant failure monitoring and shutdown automation system

An automation system for providing controlling of a plurality of processing machines provided for each process realized as from a first step, where unshelled hazelnuts are taken to a hazelnut processing plant, until a final step, wherein in order to provide controlling the process steps realized by each of the plurality of processing machines, the automation system comprises a plurality of sensors placed onto the plurality of processing machines, the plurality of sensors including at least one laser sensor configured to scan a line of the hazelnut processing plant to detect separation of hazelnuts from shells and presence of foreign objects or shells between the hazelnuts;

• a processor unit for taking data collected by means of the plurality of sensors:
• a warning unit associated with the processor unit;
• and a communication unit for informing a far user by operating the warning unit;
• wherein the processor unit is configured to:
• take condition data, comprising the processing steps of hazelnut, instantaneously from the plurality of sensors provided to each of the plurality of processing machines;
• compare the condition data with predetermined data;
• produce a failure signal in case the processor unit detects that the condition data is different from at least one of the predetermined data as a result of comparison;
• operate the warning unit depending on the failure signal;
• shut down all of the plurality of processing machines depending on operation of the warning unit;
• and
• transfer a warning signal, generated depending on operation of the warning unit, to the far user by means of the communication unit.