BUILT IN-HOUSE / RAPID CHILL
Smart Cooling Box
A cooler box that did not exist, so we built it
The short answer
What is a smart cooling box and how does it work?
A smart cooling box is a rapid-chill cooler with temperature and stock sensing engineered in, so it takes a bottle to serving temperature in seconds and logs its own cold-chain record. Readings reach an app and dashboard, which raise alerts on temperature excursions, door-open events and low stock. Indiott engineers each unit in-house and quotes it to the application.
A client needed a cooler that could take a warm bottle to serving temperature in seconds rather than minutes, and that could prove its own temperature and report its own stock. Nothing off the shelf did it, so we engineered one from standard parts into a product that did not previously exist.
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The difference
Smart cooling box: what changes the day it goes live
A client needed a cooler that could take a warm bottle to serving temperature in seconds rather than minutes, and that could prove its own temperature and report its own stock. Nothing off the shelf did it, so we engineered one from standard parts into a product that did not previously exist.
- Rapid-chill control that brings a bottle to temperature in seconds, not minutes
- Built-in temperature sensing with a logged record, so food-safety evidence is automatic
- Stock sensing and an app, so an operator sees levels and gets alerts without opening the lid
- A finished product engineered from off-the-shelf parts, proven in deployment with Coca-Cola
What you get
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Rapid-chill control that brings a bottle to temperature in seconds, not minutes
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Built-in temperature sensing with a logged record, so food-safety evidence is automatic
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Stock sensing and an app, so an operator sees levels and gets alerts without opening the lid
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A finished product engineered from off-the-shelf parts, proven in deployment with Coca-Cola
The full stack, applied here
One warm bottle, from probe to rapid chill and proof
Every Indiott build runs all five layers as one accountable system. Follow a single door left open from the sensor that catches it to the report that proves it.
Built-in temperature, door state and stock sensing read the cooler from the inside continuously, so the box is never a black box.
Hands a core reading to CONNECT ↓
The box pushes temperature, door state and stock straight to an app and to alerts, so a unit in the field shows its cold chain without anyone opening the lid.
Hands a signed reading to SECURE ↓
An encrypted uplink and per-device authentication keep the cold-chain evidence and the stock data trustworthy in transit.
Hands a trusted stream to CONTROL ↓
Rapid-chill control drives active cooling on demand, taking a warm bottle to serving temperature in seconds rather than the minutes a normal cooler needs.
Hands an action and proof to MANAGE ↓
A dashboard and app with temperature history for HACCP cold-chain evidence, live stock levels and door and excursion alerts, or fed to your system over an API.
The loop is closed ✓
How teams start
From a single pilot to the whole portfolio
You do not boil the ocean. Nearly every rollout runs the same four moves, and you own a working, evidenced result at the end of the first one.
Scope & risk map
We walk the sites, list the assets and pin the one constraint that matters, then agree what a good result looks like before a single sensor is bought.
Pilot on one site
A focused set of sensors goes onto one site or asset group, live on our telemetry and dashboards, wired to the people who need the alert.
Validate & standardise
We tune thresholds, kill false positives, confirm the integration into your SCADA, BMS or CAFM, and write the standard design down so it repeats.
Scale the portfolio
The proven design rolls out across the estate, reusing the same hardware standards and data models so every site reads the same way.
Why Indiott
A specialist stack, not a box-shifter
Brand-agnostic by design
We pick the best of each brand for the layer and the environment, not one vendor catalogue. Milesight, AquaIoT, Atop, Browan, SpecSens and Urban.io, chosen on merit.
The whole stack, one supplier
Sensing, connectivity, OT security, control and the dashboard come from one accountable team, so there is no finger-pointing when something needs to talk to something else.
Specified and supported in Britain
UK-based engineers scope the site, quote the kit and stand behind it, with compliance mapped to the regimes your auditors actually cite.
Honest kit, honest pricing
Prices are shown where we can, quoted fast where we cannot, and you get a straight answer and a bill of materials within one working day.
DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD
Compliance this answers to
| Standard | What it requires |
|---|---|
| HACCP and food safety | continuous temperature logging turns the cooler into a monitored critical control point with an automatic record |
| Engineered with our partner PSI Technologies and proven for Coca-Cola | |
What it costs, roughly
The Smart Cooling Box is a bespoke product, so it is specified and quoted to the application: the rapid-chill duty, the sensing and the stock and app requirement set the build. Tell us the use and the volume and a costed specification comes back within one working day.
Frequently asked questions
How fast is the rapid chill in practice?
Seconds to serving temperature for a single bottle, against several minutes for a conventional cooler. The exact figure depends on the starting temperature of the drink and the chill duty specified for the build, so it is set per application rather than quoted as one universal number. We size that duty to the container, the throughput and the ambient conditions on site.
Does the cooler log temperature for HACCP records?
Yes. Temperature is sensed continuously inside the box and logged automatically, so the unit produces its own time-stamped record instead of depending on a manual check sheet. An excursion outside the target band raises an alert immediately. That turns the cooler into a monitored critical control point with due-diligence evidence you can export for audit.
What does the app show, and what triggers an alert?
The app and dashboard show current internal temperature, door state and stock level for each unit, plus the temperature history behind them. Alerts fire on a temperature excursion, on a door left open and on low stock, so an operator sees a fault or a refill requirement without opening the lid or walking the floor.
Can we run a fleet of coolers across several sites?
Yes. Each unit reports over the network into one dashboard, so coolers across multiple venues are managed together rather than checked individually. You get temperature evidence, door-open events and low-stock flags per unit, and can sort the fleet by the units that need attention. Refills are then driven by data rather than a fixed route.
Can we monitor coolers and fridges we already own instead?
Yes, that is a retrofit rather than a bespoke build. A LoRaWAN probe sensor such as the Milesight TS201 (£44.89 ex VAT) or the TS302 with an external probe (£64.34) logs cabinet temperature, and the EM300-MCS door contact (£52.37) catches doors left open. A UG65 LoRaWAN gateway (£279.82) backhauls a whole site over EU868.
What does a smart cooling box cost?
It is engineered to the application, so it is quoted rather than listed. The chill duty, the sensing you need, the stock reporting and the app and alerting set the build cost, and volume moves the unit price. Tell us the use case and the quantity and a costed specification comes back within one working day.
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Buying this in the UK
- Supplied by Indiott, a trading name of PSI Technologies Limited (Companies House 03689664, VAT GB 730 2340 83), Hampshire, United Kingdom.
- Every price is published ex VAT at indiott.com — no quote needed to see it.
- Typically dispatched within 14 working days from the UK, on a VAT invoice.
- Call 023 9223 3611 or request a quote.
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Next step
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