Cold Storage
Protect perishable inventory and maintain cold chain compliance with a fully pre-configured monitoring platform. The Cold Chain Compliance Pack continuously tracks temperature, humidity, and door events across every zone — from warehouse cold rooms to refrigerated transport.
The Cold Chain Compliance Pack is purpose-built for food manufacturers, pharmaceutical distributors, and logistics operators who face strict regulatory requirements around temperature-controlled storage and transport. It provides continuous monitoring of temperature, humidity, and access events across every zone in the cold chain — from production cold rooms and blast freezers to refrigerated trucks and last-mile delivery units. Automated exceedance alerts and HACCP-audit-ready reports are built directly into the pack, reducing the burden of manual compliance verification.
Why Magistrala
Magistrala's reliable message delivery, persistent event store, and fine-grained alarm management give cold chain operators the evidence trail and real-time response capability that food safety regulations and pharmaceutical compliance frameworks require.
Platform dashboards
See it in action
Purpose-built dashboards for every layer of your cold storage deployment — from live telemetry to compliance reports.
Cold chain multi-zone monitoring dashboard
The challenge
Silent failures destroy perishable inventory
Cold chain failures are often discovered too late — after stock is spoiled, audits are failed, or regulators are already notified.
Silent Exceedances
Manual logging and periodic checks miss temperature exceedances that occur during off-hours, defrost cycles, or door events in busy operations.
Audit & Compliance Risk
Paper-based logs are incomplete, tampered, or simply missing when food safety regulators or pharmaceutical QA auditors arrive on site.
Reactive Spoilage Response
Without real-time alerts, equipment failures and temperature exceedances are only discovered after stock is already lost — often representing significant financial exposure.
How it works
From sensor to action
Continuous monitoring from sensor to audit-ready report — automated.
Monitor
Temperature and humidity loggers transmit readings every 1–15 minutes via MQTT or LoRaWAN. Door sensors fire events on open/close. All data flows into pre-defined cold chain channels.
Alert
HACCP threshold rules evaluate every incoming reading. Warning alarms fire before critical limits are reached, giving operators time to intervene before stock is compromised.
Escalate
Unacknowledged alarms escalate through configurable notification chains — site manager, quality manager, on-call technician — until the exceedance is addressed and logged.
Report
Automated daily temperature logs and exceedance reports are generated from verified sensor data. Audit-ready PDF exports can be triggered on demand or scheduled automatically.
Key Applications
Where the Cold Chain Pack is deployed today
HACCP Compliance Monitoring
Continuous, automated HACCP critical control point monitoring with timestamped, tamper-evident data ready for food safety audits.
Refrigerated Transport Tracking
In-transit temperature and location monitoring for refrigerated vehicles. Exceedance events are logged with GPS position for chain-of-custody records.
Equipment Health Monitoring
Compressor performance analysis and defrost cycle monitoring flag equipment degradation before it causes a catastrophic failure.
Regulatory Reporting
Automated generation of regulatory-format temperature reports for food safety authorities, pharmaceutical QA, and retail audit programs.
Benefits
Why teams choose Magistrala for cold storage
The solution pack removes the integration work — so your team can focus on outcomes, not infrastructure.
- Eliminate stock losses with real-time alerts before exceedances become spoilage events
- Pass food safety and pharmaceutical cold chain audits with automated, audit-ready data exports
- Reduce manual logging labor — sensors and automated reports replace paper-based processes entirely
- HACCP-compliant alert thresholds are pre-configured and can be customized per zone or product type
- Multi-site visibility from a single dashboard — manage warehouses, transport, and retail from one platform
- Full alarm acknowledgment tracking with responsible-party attribution for regulatory accountability
FAQ
Cold Storage — Frequently Asked Questions
Magistrala natively supports MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, and WebSocket. Cold chain loggers using proprietary wireless protocols (BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN) or wired buses (RS-485, 1-Wire) connect via an external protocol adapter or gateway. Sensors from major cold chain hardware vendors are supported this way without firmware changes.
Pre-configured HACCP rules evaluate temperature readings in real time. When a threshold breach is detected, the platform immediately fires alerts to responsible parties via email, SMS, and webhook, logs the event with device ID and timestamp, and requires acknowledgment before clearing — maintaining a full audit trail.
Yes. Each facility, vehicle, or retail location is a separate domain with its own device groups, alert rules, and user roles. A central operations dashboard aggregates status across all sites, while site managers see only their own assets.
Automated daily, weekly, and monthly reports are generated from raw sensor data and exported in PDF or CSV formats. Reports include exceedance summaries, acknowledgment records, and mean kinetic temperature calculations — ready for submission to food safety and pharmaceutical regulatory bodies.
Try the Cold Storage Solution Pack
Preconfigured clients, channels, rules, dashboards, reports, and alarms — ready in minutes on Magistrala Cloud.