VIR Electrical Engineering
Intelligent
Incubation Control
VIR Hatch is a professional automation and control platform for commercial egg incubators — precision environment control, purpose-built hardware and connected monitoring, engineered as one system.
Currently under active development
01 / Process variables
Precision incubation,
variable by variable
Successful incubation is not on/off control. VIR Hatch treats every process variable as a closed loop — measured continuously, regulated tightly and held stable across the full cycle.
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Temperature
High-accuracy sensing and tight regulation around the setpoint — the variable that decides embryo development, held without drift or overshoot.
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Humidity
Controlled humidification and drying for the right moisture-loss profile in setting, and the transition the hatch window demands.
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CO₂
Continuous CO₂ monitoring and demand-based management as embryo respiration rises through the cycle.
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Ventilation
Coordinated airflow and fresh-air exchange — oxygen in, CO₂ and excess heat out, without disturbing temperature and humidity stability.
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Egg Turning
Automated, scheduled turning with position feedback and fault detection — consistent through the setting period, stopped precisely for hatch.
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One controller.
Five coordinated loops.Every variable influences the others. VIR Hatch regulates them together, not as isolated thermostats.
02 / Hardware
The VIR Hatch Controller
At the core of the platform is a custom embedded controller, designed by VIR Electrical Engineering specifically for incubation — not a generic PLC adapted to the task.
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Purpose-built embedded platform
Hardware architected around the sensing, actuation and timing that incubation actually requires.
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Industrial I/O
Interfaces for heaters, humidifiers, fans, dampers and turning mechanisms across different machine designs.
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Alarm & fault management
Supervised sensors and outputs, deviation alarms and defined fail-safe behaviour when something goes wrong.
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On-board data logging
The full process record — measurements, setpoints, events and alarms — captured at the source.
03 / Control
Control that understands the process
VIR Hatch runs advanced control algorithms over continuous measurements, coordinating heating, humidification, ventilation and turning as one process — the goal is stability, not just reaching a number.
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Measure
Continuous, high-resolution sensing of every process variable.
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Decide
Control algorithms evaluate the whole environment, not each loop in isolation.
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Actuate
Coordinated outputs — smooth, proportional action instead of hard switching.
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Verify
Every response is checked, logged and supervised for deviation.
04 / Connectivity
A connected system,
from machine to anywhere
The controller is the foundation of a connected architecture: local control that never depends on the network, with monitoring that extends beyond the hatchery wall.
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Machine
Incubator
Setter or hatcher — the physical machine and its actuators.
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In active development
VIR Hatch Controller
Autonomous closed-loop control and logging at the machine. Fully functional without any external connection.
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In active development
PC Application
Local monitoring, configuration and historical data on a hatchery PC or gateway.
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In development
Cloud
Secure remote monitoring of machines and alarms from outside the site.
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Planned
Mobile Access
The same visibility from a phone — a planned extension of the platform.
Control always stays at the machine. Connectivity adds visibility — it is never a single point of failure for the process.
05 / Software
See the whole process
A software ecosystem is being built around the controller: local machine monitoring, historical data, alarm information, machine configuration — and remote monitoring as the platform grows.
Representative interface concept — not a screenshot of the final software.
Local monitoring
Live process values and machine state, on site.
Historical data
Complete logged cycles for analysis and traceability.
Alarm information
What happened, when, and how the system responded.
Machine configuration
Profiles, setpoints and schedules, managed centrally.
06 / Engineering
Designed for real machines.
Incubators run for weeks without pause, in humid, dusty, demanding environments. VIR Hatch is engineered for that reality — not for the lab bench.
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Reliability first
Defined behaviour under sensor faults, power events and communication loss. The process is protected before anything else.
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Industrial environments
Designed for the humidity, temperature and continuous duty of production hatcheries and on-farm incubation rooms.
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Serviceability
Clear diagnostics, replaceable modules and accessible wiring — built to be maintained in the field, not returned to a factory.
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Long-term operation
A firmware and software ecosystem under active development, intended to be updated and supported across the life of the machine.
07 / Status
VIR Hatch is currently under active development.
We are working with a clear goal: a complete, dependable incubation control platform. If that intersects with what you build or operate, we would like to hear from you early.
- Incubator & hatchery equipment manufacturers
- Pilot installations
- Technical partnerships
- Early commercial interest