ConnectedFresh Selects The People’s Network to Keep Food & Beverages Safe
Today we’re thrilled to announce ConnectedFresh has selected The People’s Network to keep food and beverages safe for restaurants, wine cellars, and grocery stores with small, wireless, and long-lasting loT sensors. Brands that require sustained culinary temperature control and have worked with ConnectedFresh include Chick-fil-A, PGA, and more.
The history behind ConnectedFresh could not be more authentic to the businesses it serves: original team members hail from the produce industry and met while working at Deloitte on IoT solutions. They have seen first-hand how culinary temperature challenges often lead to increased liabilities such as customer health issues and diminished food freshness. These complications are compounded by the fact that logging and monitoring temperatures is a manual process and difficult to reliably validate.
Armed with the technical chops to build solutions for customers, ConnectedFresh delivers on its core purpose of food safety, waste, and risk reduction with easily-evidenced ROI. Temperature logs for refrigerators and freezers are digitally recorded and notify team members if and when they go out of range. This allows for instant correction to reduce risk due to food safety, freshness, and longevity.
Though temperature and humidity records are among the most common applications, ConnectedFresh also provides use case solutions such as delivery verification, water leak detection, customer feedback, and more.
Helium: A Key Ingredient
ConnectedFresh harnesses the power of The People’s Network for connectivity reliability, enhanced security, and use case personalization. Thanks to the long range of LoRaWAN, user Hotspot needs are minimal with an average of one per location in urban areas such as New York and beyond.
Using data transmitted via The People’s Network, ConnectedFresh provides restaurants, grocery stores, wine cellars, and more with the right notifications — empowering teams to act before something becomes a larger problem. Customers are granted access to a centralized and enterprise-wide view of current operations; for example, a restaurant shift manager receives localized alerts and sees a personalized store dashboard when logged in.
ConnectedFresh also recognizes the special needs of enterprise or regional level users. Data for those customers includes a map with all of their locations, allowing a deep dive into individual locations and visualizations of trends across the enterprise.
These insights enable early action to prevent any future incidents of safety or freshness. Using automated reporting requirements, users are granted real-time access up and down the enterprise to all locations in one consolidated platform.
Food for Thought
Manual record-keeping in logbooks is a thing of the past in the food industry. With ConnectedFresh and The People’s Network, team members are able to focus more of their attention on delivering to customers while having the confidence that they will be alerted at the right time if something goes out of range — regardless of days off or working hour constraints.
With a vision of cold-chain verification powered by blockchain, ConnectedFresh works today to provide holistic accessibility to all. This includes entities typically overlooked; food banks and non-profits programs are empowered to deliver to those in need, knowing that their food is monitored with ConnectedFresh.
At the end of the day, the focus is always the same: improving food safety, reducing food waste, and improving operational efficiency.
Learn more about ConnectedFresh via ConnectedFresh.com and join the Helium Discord channel to stay up-to-date on new user announcements and more.