A system and method for controlling concrete production are disclosed. The system includes a protected, self-cleaning sensor assembly positioned at an entrance of a concrete mixer tank. The assembly comprises a robust housing with a protective upper cover to deflect materials, a transparent front cover for a sensor array including at least a camera, and an active cleaning system with water and air nozzles. This assembly provides continuous, real-time sensor data (visual, acoustic, thermal) to a proactive artificial intelligence (AI)-based control system. The AI system processes this data to autonomously determine the type, quantity, and timing of chemical admixture additions to maintain desired concrete properties. The AI system is also configured to control the assembly's cleaning system in a coordinated wash-and-dry sequence, ensuring the integrity and reliability of the incoming sensor data for closed-loop control of the concrete production process.

A building material apparatus includes at least one building material transport part which follows a building material drum, wherein the building material transport part is designed to transport building material which is to be at least partially cured, and at least one part sensor. The part sensor is arranged on and/or in the building material transport part and is designed to detect at least one intensive variable, or at least one variable which corresponds at least to the intensive variable, of the building material in the building material transport part.