RETROFITLabConnect IoT
Ultra-low temperature freezers and laboratory storage
The situation
A minus 80 freezer holds years of work. Its thermal inertia is its danger: by the time a drift is visible on the front panel, the compressor has often been failing for hours. Detection has to be early, and the record has to survive an audit.
What the AI does
Early drift detection and audit-ready records
What we measure
Chamber temperature, door state, compressor current, ambient temperature, mains presence. Breach detection is deliberately faster than on a cold room, because a late alert on a minus 80 is a lost alert.
What the system does not do
The system does not assess the samples. It provides a timestamped record of the conditions they were kept in, exportable for the quality file.
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
This programme runs on the same application as FridgeConnect — one sign-in, one screen, whatever equipment you monitor. Thresholds are held per equipment profile and adjusted to the range concerned.
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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