How Internet of Things can help you optimize your refrigeration units performance and prevent equipment failures and products loss.

Feb 27

The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects that are embedded with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

The evolvement of wireless communication protocols and sensor technology made IoT applications feasible financially and thus expanded their use in the market exponentially during that last 5 years.

A very interesting IoT use case is the monitoring of the performance of refrigeration units, thus being used for food storage, pharmaceutical products etc.

Refrigeration units must perform and operate within a specific range based on the products stored in them so as to preserve and maintain the products in their proper conditions. It is common refrigeration units to experience occasional failures caused wither by equipment failure, power loss or human error. It is important to acknowledge and address the problem/failure as soon as possible to prevent product, and thus financial, loss.

IoT offers an easily deployable and cost efficient solution incorporating the use of wireless, battery powered sensors and a data monitoring web platform and mobile application that offers continuous monitoring of the refrigeration units temperature and humidity and triggering alerts (Email, Mobile Application Push Notification, SMS) when these metrics exceed the pre-defined proper operation limits as these are defined by the user based on the refrigeration units use.