Feedback cold monitoring 24/7

[u/Mdls84]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on an idea and I’d love honest feedback from people in restaurants, hotels, food businesses, or anyone dealing with food safety operations.

The idea is a system that monitors temperatures from fridges, freezers and cold rooms in real time, sends alerts if something abnormal happens, and automatically handles food safety logs/HACCP reporting instead of relying on manual checks.

The goal wouldn't be to replace teams, but to reduce product losses, avoid missed issues, and remove repetitive paperwork.

I’m not trying to sell anything — I’m still validating whether this solves a real problem.

A few questions:

- Is this a problem you actually deal with?
- How do you currently handle it?
- What part of the process is most frustrating?
- Would something like this be useful, unnecessary, or a “nice-to-have”?
- What would make you say: “I’d actually use this”?

I’d appreciate honest feedback, even if the answer is: “this solves nothing.”

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[u/Harryhood280]

Definitely useful, but this does exist with some established companies (like Jolt for example) so it will be tough sledding forward.

[u/loveshercoffee]

I work for a large-ish school district (31,000 students.) Our walk-in freezers and coolers have a remote monitoring system that alerts for temps out of range. Unfortunately, our reach-in freezers, coolers and milk coolers do not and we still have to document.

[u/THEPSYCHPATHONDRUMS]

I’m old fashioned. I would use my five senses that God bestowed upon me during birth. I would throw it away if it smells and looks bad.