Logistics & transport
Industrial IoT for Cold Chain
LoRaWAN sensors, gateways and dashboards for Cold chain — specified, stocked and supported by UK engineers.
Industrial IoT for Cold Chain replaces manual rounds, spreadsheets and blind spots with live LoRaWAN telemetry: low-power sensors, resilient gateways and dashboards that flag a problem the hour it happens, not the week after. Indiott specifies, stocks and supports the full stack and ships across the UK from local warehouses.
The UK cold chain moves chilled and frozen food, vaccines and biologics through cold stores, refrigerated transport and last-mile delivery, and it is a multi-billion-pound logistics sector regulated tightly on temperature. Refrigerated storage and frozen distribution dominate the market, with the pharmaceutical segment growing fastest as temperature-controlled airfreight and biologics volumes rise. For operators, a single temperature excursion can mean condemned stock, a failed audit or a recall, which is why continuous monitoring has moved from nice-to-have to expected.
Industrial IoT for Cold Chain: sensors, gateways and dashboards
Built for Cold store and distribution centre operators, Refrigerated transport and 3PL fleet managers, Food manufacturer quality and technical managers, Pharmaceutical distribution and GDP responsible persons and Retail and grocery supply chain teams. Every asset that fails quietly — a pump, a chiller, a cold store, a plant room — is a candidate for a battery LoRaWAN sensor reporting to one dashboard. Typical Industrial IoT for Cold Chain deployments include:
- Continuous LoRaWAN temperature and humidity logging across chillers, freezers and blast rooms
- Door-open and defrost-cycle alerts on cold stores and reefer units
- Reefer trailer and last-mile van temperature tracking with excursion alarms
- Automated HACCP records and audit-ready temperature reports for the FSA
- Refrigeration plant and compressor monitoring to catch failures before stock loss
- Ammonia and CO2 refrigerant leak detection across cold store plant rooms
LoRaWAN sensors and gateways for Cold chain
The Industrial IoT for Cold Chain hardware below is UK-stocked and dispatched nationwide. Every device joins the same five-layer stack, so you can start with one gateway and a handful of sensors and scale without re-platforming.
TS101Insertion temperature sensorLoRaWAN insertion probe for pipe, tank and process temperature.
EM300Leak / contact / T+RH sensorCompact EM300 series for door, leak, temperature and humidity monitoring.
EM500Outdoor environmental sensorRugged EM500 series for outdoor CO2, level, pressure and soil measurement.
UR35Industrial cellular routerDual-SIM 4G/5G router for resilient connectivity at remote and mobile sites.
UG65Semi-industrial LoRaWAN gateway8-channel indoor gateway backhauling hundreds of LoRaWAN sensors over Ethernet, Wi-Fi or cellular.
UG67Outdoor LoRaWAN gatewayIP67 outdoor gateway for site-wide coverage across yards, plants and campuses.
Compliance and drivers in Cold chain
Food operators must run a HACCP food safety system under retained Regulation (EC) 852/2004, and the Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013 set an 8 degrees C limit for chill holding, all enforced by the Food Standards Agency. Pharmaceutical and biologics distribution follows MHRA Good Distribution Practice (GDP), which expects continuous temperature monitoring and calibrated data loggers on consignments. Frozen storage follows the Quick-frozen Foodstuffs Regulations, which require product to be held at minus 18 degrees C or colder.
Indiott builds the monitoring and evidence layer around those duties: continuous data, threshold alarms that reach the duty engineer by SMS, and timestamped records you can hand to an auditor. Useful references: GOV.UK: Food safety, your responsibilities (HACCP and traceability) UK cold chain logistics market overview. The stacks cold chain teams reach for most:
Why Cold chain teams choose Indiott
Here is why cold chain operators pick Indiott as their Industrial IoT for Cold Chain partner rather than a generic reseller.
UK stock, UK delivery
Milesight, Atop and AquaIoT hardware supplied from the UK, typically dispatched within 14 working days nationwide.
Engineer-led, not box-shifting
An engineer scopes every enquiry and returns a costed bill of materials within one working day.
One stack, many brands
Interoperable sense, connect, secure, control and manage layers, so you are never locked to a single vendor.
Bespoke when off-the-shelf ends
When the device you need does not exist, we design and build it — firmware, enclosure and integration.
Industrial IoT for Cold Chain: frequently asked questions
Do wireless temperature loggers meet HACCP and FSA record-keeping requirements?
Yes. Continuous LoRaWAN logging with alarms and exportable, time-stamped reports gives the calibrated records HACCP and FSA inspection expect, without relying on manual paper checks that get missed on night shifts.
Can you monitor refrigerated vehicles as well as fixed cold stores?
Yes. The same platform tracks reefer trailers and delivery vans alongside cold stores, flagging temperature excursions and door events on the move as well as in the building, so the whole chain is covered.
Does this suit pharmaceutical cold chain under MHRA GDP?
It supports GDP by providing continuous monitoring, excursion alarms and a full audit trail. Calibrated sensors and per-consignment loggers align with the temperature control and record expectations GDP inspectors look for.
Scope your Cold chain project
Tell us the asset, the site and the constraint. An Indiott engineer maps it to the right Industrial IoT for Cold Chain stack and sends an itemised quote within one working day.
Related: Industrial IoT for Pharmaceuticals · Industrial IoT for Food & beverage · Industrial IoT for Logistics
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