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Vehicle Tracking Solutions That Deliver Real-Time Data for your Fleet!

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vehicle tracking solutions that deliver real time data for your fleet!

Vehicle Tracking Solutions that deliver Real-Time Data for Your Fleet!

Being able to monitor and track the temperature of your perishable goods is vital to a variety of industries. From food to pharmaceuticals, chemicals and electronics, knowing the exact temperature at all times is necessary to ensure that your goods are safe. This means that from the point of the manufacturer to the final retail destination ‘cold chain monitoring’ is essential and often entails the requirement for a specific type of vehicle. 

What are the Challenges?

Currently, there are vehicle tracking solutions that deliver real-time data for your fleet .

Some companies provide such equipment and manage the entire cold chain process, and it is advisable to utilise such businesses as they are specialists in this field. To prevent the loss of fresh cargo and products justifies engaging cold chain monitoring experts.

What are the challenges of transporting, monitoring or tracking and providing real-time reporting?

Reliable power supply – Equipment that monitors whilst in a moving vehicle requires its own power source and this must be a reliable one.

Relocation to other vehicles – The unit requires to be designed to be easily located from one vehicle to another. Large cumbersome devices would use more space than necessary and would not be applicable for this application.

Sim compatible – As real-time tracking is usually reported to mobile phones the tracking unit needs to be SIM card and roaming SIM compatible. 

Satellite compatible – State-of-the-art tracking devices also requires to be GPS and GSM capable enabling reading via satellite tracking methods.

Great benefits 

Some of the great benefits to vehicle tracking in real-time is that at any time of the night or day you are fully aware of where all your vehicles in the fleet are and exactly what they are doing. You can let customers know exactly what your vehicle ETA is and you can even deliver a special emergency service to customers by connecting with the nearest truck to them.

Get the Best Vehicle Tracking Monitoring Solution Available 

Cold Watch Real Time Monitoring have the best monitoring equipment to meet all the criteria for vehicle tracking solutions that deliver real-time data for your fleet. Our ‘Mobile vehicle tracking unit’ is a state-of-the-art customised monitoring unit for mobile vehicle applications. It mitigates all potential challenges, with features that include…

  • Versatile 12V power source;
  • Compact unit designed for easy relocation;
  • SIM card and roaming SIM compatible;
  • GSM and GPS capable;
  • Live vehicle tracking.

 

This is everything you require, and the quality of our equipment, along with the level of our service is unrivalled anywhere. Talk to us today about all your Cold Chain issues, whether mobile or in storage – we have a solution for every Cold Chain challenge!  

 

How temperature monitoring keeps your pharmaceuticals safe

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How temperature monitoring keeps your pharmaceuticals safe

How temperature monitoring keeps your pharmaceuticals safe

Pharmaceuticals differ from the rest

As an online retailer, or even if you’re a wholesaler or manufacturer that is selling and  distributing goods to customers, it is vitally important, depending on the nature of the products you sell, to consider investing in temperature monitoring. Monitoring the temperature of goods at different stages of the cold chain will help ensure that your products are transported and stored in safety.

Pharmaceuticals differ from the rest

One of the most significant products that require temperature monitoring all along the cold chain is pharmaceuticals. Sure, most products have strict temperature ranges but as you will no doubt remember when the vaccines for COVID were finally created and needed to be transported and stored, the safe temperature ranges were extremely low. This is because pharmaceuticals are extremely sensitive and it’s vital to maintain these safe temperature ranges to ensure the efficacy of the medication.

What is safe?

The safe range for the storage of pharmaceuticals is either between 2°C and 8°C or between 20°C and 25°C. These are generally considered to be the temperature ranges that ensure product efficiency and will preserve the shelf life. 

There is little room for error here and if the products falls into the lower of these two temperature ranges in particular it is essential that the correct temperature monitoring methods are chosen and extra precautions are taken. Even a very short exposure to a sub-zero temperature can cause permanent damage to the product and so we have to turn to technology to accurately ensure the safe maintenance of the required temperatures.

Choosing the right temperature monitoring methods

Several standard monitoring methods have been used for cold product temperature monitoring, but most of these are outdated and not appropriate for modern pharmaceutical temperature monitoring. There are now cutting edge options like accurate real-time data processing monitoring units available from Cold Watch that produce extremely accurate temperature readings and provide our clients with digital solutions.

The Cold Watch solution

At Cold Watch, cold chain monitoring solutions are carefully designed in collaboration with client-specific requirements. These requirements comprise the monitoring of temperature, humidity measuring, open or closed-door notification, customised warnings and alert notifications to name a few.

With regards to pharmaceutical applications, we choose state-of-the-art high tech monitoring devices that we know will effectively handle the precise specifications of the temperature monitoring of these products.

Whether you are in the pharmaceutical industry, or any other that requires the safe transport and storage of goods, talk to us about the most suitable, effective and cost-effective options for your products. Our 8 years of experience in the industry gives you the peace of mind of knowing that we are driven to maintain the integrity of your products until the moment they are safely in the hands of the consumer. 

Cold chain monitoring is the most effective cargo protection solution!

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Cold Chain Monitoring is the most effective Cargo Protection Solution

Cold chain monitoring is one of the most important aspects of a business that trades in temperature-sensitive products and although there are experts in this field some companies still choose to take this responsibility upon themselves. 

Invariably when they do, however, they are dependent upon external services to provide them with the information and assistance they require. This brings us to the point then of why it simply makes sense for businesses with temperature-sensitive products to outsource cold chain monitoring experts and explain why exactly cold chain monitoring is the most effective cargo protection solution!

Why cold chain monitoring?

Perishable produce is of utmost importance and needs to be protected from all types of risks which can compromise and eventually cause damage to its quality and lifespan. It has a unique set of risks attached to its successful storage and distribution. This is where qualified cold chain monitoring experts come in. 

They focus on the creation and provision of effective management solutions to stakeholders in the cold chain process, so that product wastage can be minimized with accurate real-time data that is provided by tracking products on a global scale. 

This is a unique combination of science, process and technology to ensure the effectiveness of temperature monitoring solutions in the cold chain environment, bridging the gap between industry, technology and the consumer. 

Some of the benefits of outsourcing cold chain monitoring

The benefits of not taking on the responsibility of cold chain monitoring within your own business are numerous and just a few are:

Minimise risk 

Having experts in the field utilising cutting edge technology experience and substantial skills in this area minimises the risk you take of losing or compromising a cargo.

Frees you up for business development

Having expert cold chain monitoring being handled by experts outside of your business allows you to concentrate on your core competencies, improving the efficiency of your business and business development. 

Operate on a global level

Some real-time monitoring service providers like Cold Watch offer international solutions aimed at the Global Cold Chain Market. Our key distribution focus areas include Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Europe and Asia.

Additional services

Cold Watch also offer to existing clientele the actual monitoring of Temperature Units in an accredited environment or 24/7 manned Operations Room. The service includes the monitoring of cold chain assets, real-time temperature and humidity monitoring, and carrying out SOPs (Standing Operating Procedures) in the event of notification from any unit as per client agreement.

Use the professionals 

With regards to cold cargo protection solutions, it is also important that ongoing maintenance is offered, and handled professionally and competently. This should include the maintenance of software and hardware components during the contract period. 

With Cold Watch, software updating is carried out remotely when required without inconveniencing your operations and in the event of a breakdown or damage to a Cold Watch system, repairs are carried out by a certified subcontractor in the most appropriate time frame possible.

Contact us today to find out for yourself that it makes sense to outsource your cold chain monitoring to professionals – and satisfy yourself for once and for all that cold chain monitoring by Cold Watch is the most effective cargo protection solution!