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Cold Chain Monitoring That Never Sleeps

Track temperature, humidity, and cold chain conditions continuously — with automated alerts and timestamped logs for every shipment and storage facility.

Benefits

Ubidots Solutions for Cold Chain Monitoring

Continuous Excursion Detection

Monitor temperature and humidity around the clock and receive instant alerts the moment conditions drift outside safe ranges — catching excursions before they compromise product integrity.

Timestamped Records

Automatically log every temperature reading with precise timestamps and per-sensor trails — a complete record your team can draw on for audits and regulatory submissions.

End-to-End Cold Chain Visibility

Track conditions across cold rooms, refrigerated vehicles, and last-mile delivery points from a single platform — giving operations teams complete visibility over every link in the cold chain.

IoT in Action

Product Overview

Real-Time Intelligence for Cold Chain Operations

Turn continuous temperature and humidity sensor data into the excursion alerts, temperature records, and operational insights that protect your products and your reputation — at every point in the cold chain.

The cold chain breaks when no one is watching

A compressor that fails overnight. A refrigerated truck door left ajar during loading. A cold room whose temperature slowly creeps above spec over a weekend. These are the excursions that cause product loss, regulatory violations, and recall risks — and they all share one thing: they happen when monitoring is absent. Ubidots gives cold chain operators and logistics integrators 24/7 automated monitoring across every storage and transport point, with alerts that reach the right person the moment conditions drift out of range.

Every data point is on the record

In pharmaceutical and food distribution, monitoring data isn’t just operational — it’s the record your quality team relies on. Ubidots stores timestamped, per-sensor readings, and Enterprise plans can keep 10+ years of them with the Extended Storage add-on. When an auditor asks for temperature records from a specific cold room on a specific date, your team can retrieve and export the data in minutes, not days.

From a single cold room to a full distribution network

Whether you’re monitoring a single pharmaceutical cold room or tracking conditions across a network of warehouses, refrigerated vehicles, and distribution centers, Ubidots scales with your cold chain. Connect temperature and humidity sensors through LoRaWAN, cellular, or MQTT, and deploy white-labeled cold chain monitoring applications for your clients — without rebuilding from scratch for each deployment.

Key Features

Ubidots Tools for Cold Chain Monitoring

Real-Time Dashboards

Visualize equipment health, predictions, and maintenance status in customizable live dashboards.

Automated Alerts

Receive instant notifications when sensor readings exceed predicted safe operating thresholds.

Anomaly Detection

Flag unexpected equipment behavior automatically using configurable moving average algorithms.

10+ years of IoT data retention timeline visualization

10+ Years of Retention

Preserve up to a decade of IoT data with the Extended Storage add-on for Enterprise plans.

REST API request and JSON response for historical data

API Access for Historical Data

Retrieve archived data points programmatically for integration with BI tools and external systems.

White-Label Branding

Replace Ubidots branding with your logo, custom domain, and email sender for a fully proprietary app.

Quantify Environmental Is Slashing Utility Costs With Ubidots

Quantify Environmental uses wireless IoT sensors and Ubidots dashboards to turn utility data into real-time insights, helping industrial clients monitor water, energy, and gas use, detect inefficiencies, and act before costs rise.

$250,000+ in annual client savings through optimized water, electricity, and gas consumption.

Millions of liters of fresh water conserved and tons of CO₂ emissions prevented driving measurable sustainability outcomes.

Improved operational oversight with real-time visibility into utility usage and equipment performance.

Success Story

Further exploration revealed a platform that was not only robust and reliable, but also extremely user-friendly, offering intuitive data visualization tools that would be easily comprehensible by our clients.”

Tom Ulanowski

Co-Founder

Use Cases

Real Companies, Real Results

Quantify Environmental uses Ubidots to centralize utility data, driving efficiency, speed, and cost savings.
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Slashing Utility Costs with Real-Time Data

Tom Ulanowski

Co-Founder

Quantify Environmental uses Ubidots to monitor utilities across sites, helping clients cut costs through real-time data and alerts.

Results:

  • Centralized energy monitoring
  • Faster response times to abnormal consumption
  • Reduced utility expenses across multiple clients
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Bringing IoT to Industrial Companies in Australia

Steve Barker

Founder & CEO

Prospect Control uses Ubidots to deliver remote tank level monitoring for industrial customers, replacing complex PLC/SCADA setups with a scalable, web-based IoT solution.

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Results:

  • Real-time visibility of tank inventory across multiple sites
  • Elimination of manual readings and reduced operational overhead
  • Significant annual cost savings and faster ROI for industrial clients
03
Cutting Energy Costs and Automating Billing

Darryl Schembri

General Manager

AIS Technology uses Ubidots to monitor electricity, water, and gas consumption across multi-tenant buildings, enabling real-time visibility, automated billing, and faster response to inefficiencies.

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Results:

  • Centralized monitoring of electricity, water, and gas consumption
  • Automated monthly billing and reporting, reducing manual effort
  • Faster fault detection and reduced energy usage across facilities
04
Keeping Large-Scale Gardens Alive Using IoT

Onofre Tamargo

CEO & Cofounder

S4IoT uses Ubidots to remotely monitor irrigation systems in urban gardens, helping clients reduce maintenance costs, prevent plant loss, and shift from manual operations to a scalable subscription-based model.

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Results:

  • Remote monitoring of garden irrigation across multiple sites
  • Reduced on-site maintenance visits and lower operational costs
  • Improved plant health, fewer losses, and higher customer satisfaction

Help & Support

FrequentlyAsked Questions

Have questions about Ubidots? Here are some ofthe most common queries to help you get started.

How does Ubidots detect temperature excursions in a cold chain?

Ubidots Events watch every temperature and humidity variable continuously and fire the moment a reading crosses the range you define, with notifications by email, SMS, voice call, Slack, or webhook. Conditions can be combined with AND/OR logic, and the repeat action keeps alerting for as long as an excursion persists, so it can't be missed overnight or over a weekend. Two failure modes that fixed thresholds miss are covered too: moving average anomaly detection flags a cold room slowly creeping toward its limit, and a device inactivity trigger alerts you when a sensor stops reporting — because a silent logger is itself a cold chain risk.

Can Ubidots provide temperature records for FDA, HACCP, or GDP audits?

Ubidots stores every reading as a timestamped data point tied to a specific sensor, so you can pull the full record for any cold room, vehicle, or date range from the data navigator, the REST API, or as Parquet file exports. If a device doesn't send its own timestamp, Ubidots assigns a server-side one so records stay in order. For multi-year retention, the Extended Storage add-on, available on Enterprise plans, archives up to roughly ten years of data in cold storage. Ubidots supplies the data trail; how it fits into your validated quality process is defined by your QA team.

Can Ubidots monitor refrigerated trucks as well as fixed cold rooms?

Yes. Every Ubidots data point can carry GPS coordinates in its context metadata, so a refrigerated vehicle reports temperature and location together and appears on a live map alongside your fixed cold rooms and warehouses. Geofence triggers can alert you when a vehicle enters or leaves a defined area, such as a distribution center or delivery zone. When a truck loses coverage, devices that buffer readings can send them later with their original timestamps, so the temperature history stays complete and correctly ordered.

Can I offer cold chain monitoring as a service to my own clients?

Yes. Each client gets an isolated organization with its own devices, dashboards, alerts, and users, so no client ever sees another's data. Device Types let you define a standard cold room or vehicle sensor configuration once — variables, units, and ranges — and automatically create its dashboard and alert rules each time a new device is added. With White Label branding, clients log into a portal on your domain with your logo and colors, so the monitoring experience is part of your service rather than a third-party tool.