The fate of millions of refrigerated materials—from products to vaccines to reagents—relies on consistent refrigeration at precise temperatures. To ensure industrial refrigeration temperatures remain consistent, labs must use cold storage monitoring.
Without proper and reliable temperature monitoring tools, organizations can face irreversible loss. Consider what happened at the University of Alberta—they lost several unique ice core samples retrieved from the Canadian Arctic due to a malfunction in a laboratory freezer monitoring system. The ice core, believed to be the oldest in the Canadian Arctic, held historical climate data that researchers were using to address crucial questions regarding climate change and the history of our planet.
This loss is devastating not only to the university but to our society as a whole. Not to mention—can you imagine being the poor person who discovered and had to relay the news of the loss?
While not everyone must safeguard the oldest piece of ice on Earth, an industrial refrigerator monitoring system is still vital. Whether you’re looking for a new commercial refrigerator temperature monitoring system or upgrading your old one, keep reading to explore the ins and outs of industrial fridge monitoring.
Even a state-of-the-art refrigerator can suffer temperature fluctuations. These could be from an internal malfunction or due to an external influence. Without consistently checking the temperature of a refrigerator, it’s impossible to know if the temperature has remained steady or experienced spikes and dips.
Some offenders that can cause these unpredictable variations in temperature include:
The best way to record refrigerator temperatures is with wireless digital temperature sensors connected to a cloud-based monitoring system. While you could stick with traditional analog thermometers or chart recorders, these methods are too time-consuming and ineffective in today’s technology-driven landscape.
Some benefits of moving away from outdated temperature monitoring devices to digital solutions include:
Does someone still have to be on-site to read a digital temperature sensor? Not at all! Remote monitoring allows companies to keep a watchful eye on sensor readings 24/7 from any off-site location. With that in mind, one question remains…
Businesses can monitor refrigerator temperatures remotely by adopting smart monitoring sensors with an app to check fridge temperature. If thoughts like, “Nah…sounds too complicated to install,” are crossing your mind, fear not! Elemental Machines sensors are so easy to set up that they can start sending data just 60 seconds after you take them out of the box.
Plus, these sensors can connect to virtually any type of equipment, no matter who made it or when it was made. Our platform also easily integrates with most laboratory information management systems (LIMS), quality management systems (QMS), and other popular management software.
And as far as reliability and data trustworthiness, we frequently hear our customers praising the accuracy they see in our system compared to competitors. No more false, ambiguous alarms or systems that demand to be reset again and again—Elemental Machines is here to provide you with peace of mind.
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