Continuous odor monitoring, measured at the property line.
Odor is the complaint that arrives last and is hardest to answer. It reaches you as a phone call about last Tuesday evening, from a house half a mile downwind, and the only record you have is what somebody remembers. SmartCompost puts continuous readings on the fenceline instead: odorant gases, particulate and wind on the same node, on the same clock. We have been measuring at plants in Brazil since 2019.
Five pages, depending on what you came for
If you are sizing a system, start with fenceline monitoring. If you want to know how this reads at a plant like yours, go to your industry. If a complaint already landed, go to the playbook.
Fenceline odor and gas monitoring →
What a perimeter node reads, how we choose where the nodes go, how many a site usually needs, and what the record looks like when a complaint arrives.
Wastewater treatment plants →
Hydrogen sulfide and ammonia at the plant boundary, the complaint pattern that tracks headworks and solids handling, and what a permit condition asks for.
Rendering plants and slaughterhouses →
Cookers, condensers and the loads that arrive warm. Continuous readings on the line that separates your process from the neighborhood that calls.
Composting and organics recycling →
Ammonia and methane through the active phase, on the pile and at the fence, so a turning schedule stops being guesswork.
Odor complaint response playbook →
What to do in the first 24 hours, what your log has to show, and how to close the loop with the agency without arguing about who smelled what.
One node, one clock
- Odorant gases
- The compounds that drive nuisance complaints at waste and process sites, read continuously rather than sampled on the day of a survey.
- Particulate, PM1 through PM10
- Four fractions on the same node as the gas, so a dust event and an odor event stop being two separate investigations with two separate timestamps.
- Wind, measured at the post
- A local weather station on site, with a numerical forecast model as redundancy. Wind from an airport twelve miles away does not tell you which way your plume went.
Tell us what your site is dealing with
Send us the site layout, the receptors that call, and what runs overnight. We will come back with where the nodes go and what the first month of data should answer.
Talk to our team →