Multi-Site Refrigeration

Refrigeration monitoring across every site, one platform

The whole portfolio, at a glance. Real-time temperature alerts, multi-site rollup, energy management, and audit-ready cold chain reporting for grocery, convenience, restaurant, and pharmacy chains. Vendor-neutral and live in days.

Vendor-neutral by designHACCP & CDC VFC readySOC 2 Type II in progressPilot in weeks
The multi-site reality

Refrigeration is the most expensive thing you can't see

Walk-in failures, door cycles, defrost drift, and refrigerant leaks happen between rounds, and the cost shows up later as shrink, truck rolls, customer complaints, and audit findings. Refrigeration monitoring on legacy controllers and end-of-month reports is no longer enough.

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01 / Late-detection pain

You find out about a walk-in failure when the produce is already lost

Manual rounds and OEM dataloggers surface refrigeration failures hours late, usually when a store manager opens the cooler the next morning. By then the truck-roll, the shrink write-off, and the customer complaints have already happened.

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02 / Portfolio-visibility pain

Every site has its own portal, every chain has none

Each refrigeration vendor ships its own cloud, login, and CSV export. Operations teams running fifty or five hundred sites have no portfolio view, just a stack of tabs and a spreadsheet stitched together at end of month.

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03 / Truck-roll pain

Truck rolls for false alarms eat the maintenance budget

Without real-time context, every nuisance trip becomes a dispatch. A senior tech driving two hours to find a propped-open door is the most expensive way to learn the door was propped open.

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04 / Compliance pain

Compliance and energy programs live in separate spreadsheets

Audit-ready cold chain logs, ENERGY STAR benchmarking, and refrigerant leak tracking each demand the same underlying data, but every team rebuilds the report by hand because the source-of-truth lives in a different vendor portal.

Use case

Built for retail & restaurant chains

Refrigeration, HVAC, lighting, and energy across hundreds or thousands of sites on one dashboard.

Grocery and convenience chains: refrigeration, HVAC, lighting, and energy across hundreds or thousands of sites on one dashboard. Loss prevention through equipment alerts (walk-in down, door propped open, defrost cycle out of spec). Centralized energy management and refrigerant leak monitoring. Reduce truck rolls with remote diagnostics that tell the tech what to bring before they leave the depot.

Quick-service and full-service restaurants: walk-in cooler monitoring, prep-station temperature logging, and HACCP-ready cold chain reports for every location in the brand. Operators get push and SMS alerts on excursions, store managers get a simple mobile view, and corporate gets portfolio refrigeration uptime in one rollup, no per-store IT project required.

Pharmacy chains and retail cold storage: continuous temperature monitoring for vaccine fridges, medication storage, and cold-chain inventory across every retail pharmacy in the network. Tamper-evident logs that meet CDC VFC documentation requirements, per-asset thresholds, and audit-ready PDF exports the compliance team can deliver on demand.

  • Walk-in, door, and defrost-cycle alerts
  • HACCP-ready cold chain reports per location
  • CDC VFC tamper-evident pharmacy logs
  • Portfolio rollup across the entire fleet
What you get

Features built for multi-site refrigeration monitoring

Six capabilities that turn a passive temperature record into an active loss-prevention, energy, and compliance program.

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Real-time temperature and door monitoring

Continuous readings from existing probes, dataloggers, and rack controllers on the calibrated sensors you already own. Works with Modbus, BACnet, MQTT, 4-20mA, RTD, thermocouple, and dry-contact door switches.

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Anomaly and threshold alerts

Per-asset thresholds, severity tiers, and trend-based anomaly events. Catch a slow drift before it crosses an alarm (door cycling too often, compressor degrading, defrost out of spec) so monitoring catches the failure before product is at risk.

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Multi-site refrigeration rollup

Portfolio view across every store, with asset hierarchy by region, site, and unit. Benchmark refrigeration uptime, energy per location, and excursion rates site against site. One platform replaces a stack of vendor portals.

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Energy management built in

Live energy dashboard, utility-bill ingestion, load-factor reports, and ENERGY STAR-ready benchmarking, generated from the data the platform is already collecting. No second integration, no second login.

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Mobile push, SMS, Slack, and email

Native iOS and Android apps with push notifications and MFA. SMS for critical alarms, Slack for the on-call channel, email for daily summaries. Every channel acknowledges back into the same audit trail with user attribution and timestamp.

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Audit-ready compliance reports

Dashboard-as-PDF for any historical date range, with pre-built templates for HACCP, FDA, CDC VFC, refrigerant leak (EPA Section 608), and ENERGY STAR. Scheduled monthly delivery to the QA distribution list.

Key metrics

What changes when refrigeration monitoring goes real-time

The four numbers operations leadership tracks for refrigeration, surfaced automatically from the data the platform is already collecting.

99.9%+
Refrigeration uptime
Per-site, per-unit uptime tracked automatically. Spot the underperformers and prove the program is working.
12-20%
Energy per location
Typical reduction in energy spend per site once monitoring surfaces scheduling, defrost, and door-cycle waste.
30-50%
Truck-roll reduction
Remote diagnostics cut unnecessary dispatches. Techs see the real cause before they leave the depot.
$10K+/event
Shrinkage avoided
A single caught walk-in failure on dairy, produce, frozen, or pharmacy inventory typically pays back the platform.
FAQ

Refrigeration monitoring questions, answered

Common questions from operations, facilities, and compliance leaders evaluating ControlCom Connect.

Critical refrigeration alarms are delivered to on-call phones within seconds of the threshold breach. The edge gateway evaluates thresholds locally, so alarms fire even during a WAN outage, and the cloud fans the event out over SMS, push, Slack, and email in parallel. Acknowledgement is one tap on the mobile app, with full user attribution and timestamp logged for the audit trail. There is no nightly summary email and no waiting for the next round.

Get started

Pilot refrigeration monitoring on one region

Pick three to five stores. We onboard your existing rack controllers and sensors, configure the alarms, rollup, and reports your operations team needs, and run alongside your current system for ninety days. No rip-and-replace. No cutover risk. Expand to the rest of the fleet on your schedule.