Wayne Glowac, Director of Marketing REDUCING COSTS AND IMPROVING SAFETY THROUGH IoT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
FOR THE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED FOOD STORAGE
In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40% of the food supply. Equipment malfunction and human error in storage and retail stages are significant contributors to food loss.
New advancements in temperature monitoring with Internet of Things technology ( IoT) and predictive analytics are empowering the industry to improve safety and compliance while generating significant cost savings. These advancements enable food service professionals to improve business practices based on proactive alerts and actionable data.
EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY IN REFRIGERATYION TEMPERATURE MONITORING
Temperature Measurement, Recording and Data Storage
Current: Manual entry utilizing staff & management time costs approximately $600 - $800 per year, per refrigerator or freezer. Managers continue to report challenges with maintaining staff compliance and accuracy. Archiving, storage and retrieval of data is cumbersome, time consuming and costly. The hard copy of temperature logs take up storage space, and can be inadvertently damaged or misplaced.
New Technology: Sensors provide accurate and granular data which is stored in the cloud for compliant, reliable and cost-effective retrieval, analysis and reporting providing significant cost savings.