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Cold Storage Monitoring & Alerts

Continuous temperature monitoring for walk-in coolers, freezers, blast chillers, and controlled-atmosphere rooms — across every facility, with audit-grade HACCP / FDA / USDA records and threshold alerts that wake someone up before product spoils.

Running an HVAC fleet instead? See the HVAC page.

The Problem

A single excursion costs thousands in spoiled product

Coolers and freezers fail without warning — compressor lockout, defrost cycle stuck, door left open overnight. By the time someone notices, the inventory is already at risk.

Manual temperature logs are unreliable and labor-intensive

Walking around to log each cooler temperature on a clipboard is hours per week, and produces gaps overnight and on weekends — exactly when failures happen.

No remote visibility across multiple locations

Multi-site operators (cold-storage chains, regional food processors, restaurant groups) have no single view of every walk-in across every facility.

Manual records fail inspections

FDA, HACCP, and USDA inspectors expect continuous temperature records with timestamps. Paper logs and spot-checks are not audit-grade.

How LoopString Solves It

On-edge monitoring that survives outages

A Raspberry Pi per facility reads every cooler and freezer probe locally and runs threshold logic on-device. Process control survives ISP outages, power flickers, and cloud incidents.

Multi-cooler, multi-location dashboard

See every walk-in, freezer, blast chiller, and controlled-atmosphere room across every facility on one screen. Sparkline trends per cooler. Grouped by location.

Threshold + door-open alerts before product spoils

Configure alert thresholds per cooler with hysteresis to avoid false positives. Anomaly detection flags compressor failures via rolling-baseline drift. Escalation chains wake the right person.

Continuous, audit-grade compliance records

Every reading is logged with a timestamp and exportable as a HACCP / FDA / USDA-style PDF report. Inspector-ready records, not clipboards.

Built for these cold-storage operators

Cold-storage chains

Multi-site walk-in cooler + freezer monitoring across every facility, with grouping and RBAC for facility managers.

Food processors

Continuous-record temperature monitoring on raw-material coolers, finished-goods freezers, and blast chillers.

Restaurant + grocery chains

Walk-in, prep-fridge, and reach-in monitoring across every location, with regional-manager dashboards.

Controlled-atmosphere storage

CO₂ + O₂ + temperature monitoring for fruit / produce CA rooms — apple, pear, kiwi, banana ripening.

Biotech + pharma cold chain

Per-unit temperature and humidity records for samples, vaccines, and biologic-storage freezers (-20°C / -80°C).

Cold-chain logistics

Distribution-center cooler + reefer-staging-area monitoring with audit-ready exports for chain-of-custody compliance.

Hardware You'll Use

DS18B20

Waterproof temperature probe for walk-ins and freezers

1-Wire

SHT31

Combined ambient T + relative humidity for staging areas

I²C

MH-Z19B

NDIR CO₂ sensor for controlled-atmosphere rooms

UART

Door switch

Magnetic reed switch for door-open alerts

GPIO
LoopString dashboard — cold-storage monitoring

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