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Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Top Cold Chain Monitoring Solutions out of 350
The insights of this data-driven analysis are derived from the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 2.093.000+ startups & scaleups globally. The platform gives you an exhaustive overview of emerging technologies & relevant startups within a specific field in just a few clicks.
The Global Startup Heat Map below reveals the distribution of the 350 exemplary startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. Further, it highlights 5 food tech startups that we hand-picked based on criteria such as founding year, location, funding raised, and more. You get to explore the solutions of these 5 startups & scaleups in this report. For insights on the other 345 cold chain monitoring solutions, get in touch.
SenseGeni provides Temperature-Sensitive Tags for Continuous Monitoring
With the increase in demand for fresh food, startups innovate within the cold chain monitoring sector to ensure perishable products are constantly at optimum temperature making them safe to consume. Thanks to these continuous monitoring solutions, food businesses avoid textural degradation, discoloring, and microbial growth in fruits, vegetables, and other items like cheese, milk, and meat. This ensures good quality and marketable value.
US-based startup SenseGeni provides disposable tags, SenseGeni Tempo, which connect with SenseGeni’s smartphone application to continuously monitor the temperature of food in cold chains in real-time. The tag is easily installed, while the temperature and location data are uploaded automatically via smartphones within a 30 meters range. The tag also provides other features which include alert and alarm notification, as well as customizable thresholds to monitor seafood, dairy, meat, fruits, and vegetables as well as live fish, for example.
Tenova Systems offers Blockchain-Based Technology for Cold Chain Monitoring
Because the storage timelines for temperature and humidity-sensitive eatables vary, proper handling of these products is the need of the hour for cold chain managers. Therefore, food technology startups develop technologies to monitor perishable goods through blockchain and the Internet of Things. Their implementation of these technologies leads to better transparency and security of supply chain channels.
Indian startup Tenova Systems develops blockchain-based decentralized and distributed ledger technology for cold chains. The technology tracks and monitors temperature- and humidity-sensitive products in real-time. Its cloud-based IoT sensors track the temperature of cold storage bundles remotely. This facilitates early warnings and notifications to avoid the wastage of food including fresh produce, dairy, poultry, ice cream, and seafood.
Kedeon offers Stand-Alone Devices for Cold Chain Monitoring
Nowadays a lot of food products manufactured for human consumption are wasted. In particular, that waste often occurs before the food reaches consumers due to faulty cold chain management. To avoid food waste at every level from production sites to retail stores, startups and emerging companies develop smart gadgets for cold chain monitoring.
Latvian startup Kedeon offers a stand-alone device for real-time cold chain monitoring. The device needs no power supply or additional hardware to operate. Based on the Internet of Things and blockchain technology, the device comes with a chip that shares secured and reliable information of the location, temperature, and humidity condition of monitored food. The device is made with last-mile delivery operations, healthcare supplies, and edibles logistics in mind.
EnrichAI builds a Cloud-Based Platform for Cold Chain Monitoring
To improve operational efficiency and quality of eatables, a reliable cold chain tracking system is essential for food & beverage businesses. Therefore, food and logistics startups develop wired and wireless temperature sensors to record and monitor changes in the overall environment such as humidity and air quality of goods transported over cold chains.
Indian startup EnrichAI offers a cloud-based platform built on cumulocity IoT. Its cold chain tracking system provides real-time data of temperature-controlled trucks and reefer containers. Further, the startup develops a hardware kit that includes wireless temperature and humidity sensors, as well as refrigerator unit current sensors. These sensors communicate to the cloud via in-vehicle monitoring systems. This allows users to visualize trends, configure alerts and see dedicated reports.
NanoThings develops LoRaWan Tags for Temperature Monitoring
Most conventional temperature monitoring solutions are labor-intensive, error-prone, and do not provide end-to-end temperature detectability. Therefore, startups develop traceable LoRaWAN-based temperature tracking solutions to periodically transmit temperature and humidity data to the LoRaWAN gateway and present a clearer picture of the status of goods delivered over cold chains.
US-based startup NanoThings automates cold chain monitoring through a wireless smart label. Called NanoTag, the label is affixed to food boxes, walls, crates, truck trailers, and shipping containers. The tag works along with LoRaWAN gateways which are installed at each of the facilities. The tag ranges from single-use applications to multi-year monitoring. The collected data is accessed via the NanoThings API over a web portal.
Discover more FoodTech Startups
Food startups such as the examples highlighted in this report focus on Alternative Proteins, Robotics, Food Waste Reduction as well as increasing Supply Chain Transparency. While all of these technologies play a major role in advancing the food industry, they only represent the tip of the iceberg. To explore more food technologies, simply get in touch to let us look into your areas of interest. For a more general overview, you can download our free FoodTech Innovation Report to save your time and improve strategic decision-making.
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