Cold Storage Monitoring Sensors, TG Tracking

Cold Storage Monitoring Sensors

A wireless sensor on every cold room, walk-in and blast freezer turns the facility into a continuous, audit-grade temperature record. Door cycles, compressor events and power-state changes log to the same timeline as the per-zone curve, and the alert escalation routes off the on-site panel to the duty officer, the regional manager and the TG control room. The retailer arrives with a clean curve at the dock, the insurer reviews a claim with the timeline already attached, and the engineering team sees every facility on one dashboard.

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Cold storage monitoring from TG Tracking puts wireless sensors on every cold room, walk-in, blast freezer and distribution-centre chamber, with door-cycle, compressor and power-loss alerts that escalate beyond the on-site panel. The platform writes the audit-grade log retailers, insurers and food-safety auditors ask for, and runs on the same control room as your sister cold-chain applications under Temperature and Cold Chain Monitoring and the broader Business solutions stack.

Three operational moments the platform manages every week

A cold storage facility runs against three repeating moments: the compressor that needs the right ears on the alert, the loading-bay door cycle that needs a managed threshold, and the power-state change that needs to be visible per room. The platform manages all three on one timeline.

Compressor events with escalation that bypasses a single phone. Each chamber's compressor reports its state to the platform and the escalation tree routes from the duty officer to the backup, the regional manager and the TG control room. A Saturday-night event no longer depends on a panel inside a locked engineering office.

Loading-bay door cycles as managed exceptions. A despatch team running 80 pallets out a 4-degree chiller may leave the door open through the shift. A 3-minute threshold turns the cycle into a logged exception with the duration, the door, the chamber and the curve impact recorded together for the shift report.

Power-state visibility per cold room. Load shedding switches into almost every site's operating week. A power-state sensor per room confirms genset transfer per switchboard, so a chamber on a separate panel shows up immediately rather than at the next round.

Audit-grade evidence: claim, retailer pass and compliance

The continuous, time-stamped record per zone gives operators three independent kinds of evidence on the same dataset.

Insurance claims with evidence behind them. A claim with a chamber curve, door log, compressor event and power-loss timeline tied to the minute starts the conversation with the broker on solid ground.

Retailer dock pass. SA grocery groups expect cold-chain logs at delivery, and a delivery that arrives with a clean per-zone curve clears the dock on schedule.

External audit as a download. The platform exports the HACCP-style record per chamber over any date range with door, power and ambient overlays, ready for the external auditor.

South African cold storage realities: grid, theft, distance

South African cold storage runs under three pressures international operators do not face. Grid instability has put genset switching into almost every site, but it is only as good as its weakest panel. Coastal, Highveld and inland facilities all move stock through long-haul cold-chain transport. Remote DC yards are themselves the asset, overlapping with Asset Tracking and Recovery workflows.

The platform handles those realities in one stack. The transport leg is on Refrigerated transport. DC mobile assets live on Wireless asset tracking. Ambient conditions sit on Environmental sensor monitoring under Remote sensor monitoring. KPIs roll up through Business Intelligence Dashboards. See also Food production, Server rooms, Farming temperature monitoring and Industries we serve.

Frequently asked questions

Put the overnight watch on the platform

The chamber, the door, the compressor and the power switch all report to the same timeline, with escalation routed off the on-site panel to the people who can act. The overnight watch becomes a managed line in the operations dashboard rather than a manual check.