RETROFITColdRoomConnect IoT
Cold rooms and walk-in storage
The situation
A cold room is not a large refrigerator. Staff walk into it and stay for ten minutes; the room defrosts on a programmed cycle and rises by several degrees on purpose. Thresholds borrowed from a fridge would raise alerts several times a day, and alerts that are always wrong get switched off.
What the AI does
Temperature mapping, door events and energy use
What we measure
Temperature at several points in the volume, door state, compressor current, ambient conditions. Door delays and defrost tolerance are set per room, not inherited from a fridge profile.
What the system does not do
The system infers a defrost from compressor state, door state and temperature trend. It is not informed of one by the room controller. Its limits are stated in the product documentation rather than discovered on site.
The retrofit chain
SENSORS → IoT → CLOUD → AI
External probes and existing signal outputs are read without altering the machine's own electronics. An industrial gateway forwards the readings; the platform stores, analyses and reports.
Signals and protocols we read
If your equipment exposes one of these, no internal modification is normally required.
The platform is live
ColdRoomConnect IoT runs on the same application as FridgeConnect — one sign-in, one screen, whether you monitor a vaccine fridge, a cold room or both. It adds what a room needs: defrost tolerance, longer door delays and several probes per room.
Sign-in is reserved to registered sites.
fridge.retrofitwithai.com
Open the platformThe user manual for the people who will check the equipment: read it here (PDF, 6 pages). It states what the platform records — and what it deliberately leaves to a person.
Is your machine a candidate?
Feasibility depends on the model, the available outputs and the site itself. Send us the details and we will assess it.
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