Continuous temperature logging per zone, excursion alerts while the load can still be saved, and an export your pharmaceutical or food client can audit without taking your word for anything.
The alert protects the load. The record protects the contract. You need both, and they are different problems.
Gulf ambient temperatures make cold chain unusually unforgiving. A reefer door held open for a few minutes on a Dubai loading bay in August does more to a chilled load than the same event would in a temperate climate, and the margin between a compliant delivery and a rejected one is measured in minutes rather than hours. That is why alerting speed matters more here than almost anywhere.
The mistake most operators make is treating temperature monitoring as a reporting feature. The report is what protects you after the fact, but the alert is what saves the load, and those have different design requirements. A report can be generated hourly; an alert that arrives hourly is useless. Thresholds should be set per product rather than per vehicle, because the same trailer may carry ice cream on Monday and pharmaceuticals on Wednesday.
Door-open correlation is the single configuration change that makes temperature alerting liveable. Without it, every legitimate delivery stop generates a temperature rise and therefore an alert, staff learn to ignore alerts within a fortnight, and the system stops working while continuing to look like it works. With door sensors correlated, a rise during an open door at a known delivery point is context rather than an alarm.
For pharmaceutical and clinical work the record matters as much as the load. Clients in that sector tend to ask for continuous logging rather than spot readings, proof that readings were not edited after the fact, calibration evidence for the probes, and an export covering a defined period on demand. If you are bidding for that work, those four things are the specification, and a system that produces a pretty dashboard but cannot export a defensible log will not clear procurement.
Our platform handles the measurement, alerting and record. It does not repair your refrigeration unit, and we would rather be clear about the boundary: if a reefer is undersized for the route or poorly maintained, monitoring will document the failure very precisely and prevent none of it. The operators who get the most from this pair it with maintenance scheduling, which is why both live in the same platform.
Yes. Multi-zone trailers are measured per compartment with a separate probe and a separate threshold for each, because a single average across a multi-temperature trailer tells you almost nothing useful. Reports and exports preserve the per-zone detail rather than collapsing it.
Wired probes are the right choice for a permanently assigned refrigerated body: they are reliable, need no battery management and survive rough handling. Wireless sensors make sense when trailers swap between tractors, when you need to instrument a container that is not permanently yours, or when retrofitting would mean cutting into a body you do not own. Most mixed fleets end up with both.
Within the reporting interval you configure, which for temperature-critical work is normally much shorter than for position reporting. The design goal is an alert while the load can still be recovered — a driver closing a door, a depot being called, a route being shortened — rather than an entry in tomorrow report.
It provides what such audits normally ask for: continuous per-zone logging across the whole trip, readings stored so they cannot be quietly edited, calibration recorded against each probe, and export for any period on demand. Whether that satisfies a specific client depends on their own protocol, so send us their requirement document and we will tell you plainly which clauses we meet and which we do not.
Usually. Temperature monitoring is sensor-based and largely independent of the refrigeration brand, so probes can be fitted to most bodies. Where a reefer exposes data over CAN or a telematics port we can often read set point and run hours directly as well, which is richer than probes alone. Tell us the units you run and we will confirm what is readable.
Send your product types, trailer configuration and client reporting requirement. We will specify the sensors and the thresholds.
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