Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring

When temperature-sensitive assets and products are transported, they can easily be exposed to different conditions and temperatures that may cause them to be damaged or become unsafe for use. In a recent study by UPS, more than 30 per cent of deliveries in the $76 billion global pharmaceutical logistics delivery market are reaching their destination with some degree of damage or spoilage. 

What is Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring?

Temperature monitoring is crucial in facilitating the optimal delivery of temperature, humidity, and moisture-sensitive assets throughout the entire cold chain process. Cold chain monitoring software is integrated with temperature sensors and tags that can monitor the conditions of assets and provide real-time temperature data, enabling companies to enhance cold chain management for their critical goods. Whether in transit or at a cold storage facility, IoT technology allows for conditional data to be collected for real-time temperature monitoring and management through cloud-based platforms.

What is a Cold Chain Monitoring Device?

A cold chain monitoring device is a specialized system designed to track and record environmental conditions, such as temperature and humidity, for temperature-sensitive products throughout the cold chain. These devices are commonly used in refrigerated trucks, warehouses, and cold storage facilities to ensure goods remain within predefined thresholds critical for their quality and safety.

By continuously monitoring conditions, the device can alert users to deviations from acceptable ranges, enabling swift corrective actions to be taken. This real-time monitoring helps prevent spoilage, maintain product integrity, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards for perishable goods like food, pharmaceuticals, and biological materials.

What are the benefits of Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring?

Many industries require temperature-controlled logistics, meaning temperature-sensitive assets are to stay in a regulated environment whilst in transit. Cold chain temperature monitoring devices and IoT technology assist in centralizing operations to actively monitor and regulate asset temperature across the entire supply chain process. A cold chain monitoring solution is beneficial in increasing distribution, maintaining the quality of products, and extending the shelf life of products.  Assets must always be stored and transported within the required temperature ranges.  

Companies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or food and beverage industry can benefit the most from using temperature-controlled logistics solutions to maintain optimal conditions for their assets. The ability to monitor the conditions of assets ensures that they are not compromised at any point during transportation or storage. 

What are the benefits of Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring?

Many industries require temperature-controlled logistics, meaning temperature-sensitive assets are to stay in a regulated environment whilst in transit. Cold chain temperature monitoring devices and IoT technology assist in centralizing operations to actively monitor and regulate asset temperature across the entire supply chain process. A cold chain monitoring solution is beneficial in increasing distribution, maintaining the quality of products, and extending the shelf life of products.  Assets must always be stored and transported within the required temperature ranges.

Companies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or food and beverage industry can benefit the most from using temperature-controlled logistics solutions to maintain optimal conditions for their assets. The ability to monitor the conditions of assets ensures that they are not compromised at any point during transportation or storage.

Real-time temperature monitoring

Real-time temperature monitoring and cold chain loggers are crucial for managing temperature-sensitive assets during storage and transportation. Live tracking enables remote monitoring, allowing businesses to ensure and prove that their products are delivered uncompromised.

Continuous temperature readings provide real-time data, empowering managers to monitor and respond to temperature fluctuations. If the temperature approaches or exceeds the predetermined range, alerts are sent to allow immediate adjustments, such as raising or lowering the temperature, ensuring the integrity of the products throughout the process.

Safety and Compliance

Tracking and maintaining the safety and quality standards of temperature-sensitive assets is critical. A requirement for regulatory compliance on products across the food and beverage, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries, is the ability to monitor and log data on the temperature of goods.

With a temperature-controlled logistics system, companies can be confident in their products, maintaining their integrity and compliance standards and never becoming compromised during transportation or storage. Data provided by temperature trackers gives not only real-time updates but also a historical record that can be referenced to prove all safety and compliance standards have been met. 

Bluetooth® Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy enables companies to track location and monitor their temperature-sensitive assets in real-time. Several of our devices double as Bluetooth® Gateways, which can connect with nearby Bluetooth accessories to monitor the environmental conditions of assets and detect any temperature changes.

Bluetooth Low Energy gateways and temperature trackers can be covertly installed while providing real-time GPS position and conditional data for the asset. Integrated with a tracking application, our cold chain temperature monitoring devices are programmed to periodically or continuously scan for nearby BLE accessories. They then transmit the data received through Cellular LTE-M/NB-IoT networks to your choice of Telematics platform, ensuring seamless tracking and environmental monitoring.

Digital Matter Cold Chain Temperature Monitoring Devices

Digital Matter’s cold chain temperature monitoring solutions utilize wired and battery-powered temperature monitoring devices that, when combined with Bluetooth Low Energy tags and sensors, can deliver precise temperature conditions in near real-time, depending on device type and configuration. Powered by off-the-shelf user-replaceable Lithium, Lithium Thionyl Chloride (LTC), or Alkaline batteries, they are engineered with a ‘deploy-once’ long battery life that can last up to 10+ years.

Our cold chain temperature monitoring devices are also ultra-rugged with an IP68-rated housing. Discrete and easy to conceal on an asset, reefer, or refrigerated container, tags, and trackers can be installed on non-powered assets or hardwired directly into a vehicle or trailer to create a temperature monitoring system. 

The flexible configuration of each cold chain monitoring device allows you to monitor the data you need most accurately, including adaptive tracking, which allows you to select regular or timed updates, sleep mode, and updates triggered by movement or accelerometer settings.

These systems are equipped with a GPS tracker that also alerts users to temperature deviations, helping maintain product integrity and compliance throughout the cold chain.