Every record an auditor might ask for
ChirpDat is built around compliance problems, not sensor spec sheets. Find yours below — or build your own deployment and price it in three minutes.
Cold chain compliance for USDA & food facilities
Coolers, freezers, blast chillers, aging rooms, and hot-hold — monitored continuously against the critical limits in your HACCP plan. Every reading is time-stamped and tamper-evident, and audit reports for any date range generate in one click. When FSIS asks for six months of cooler records, you’re done in two minutes, not two days.
We monitor: cooler/freezer temperature, food-grade insertion probes, ambient temp + humidity
Typical alerts: warning at drift, critical at limit — SMS and email to QA, voice-call escalation after hours
The chain that ends in a warm room
Cold storage failures tend to run the same course. Something goes wrong with the power. The compressor works harder, or stops. The room warms up. Product is at risk.
Most monitoring watches the last step. By the time a temperature alarm fires, the failure has already happened — you are finding out, not getting ahead of it.
ChirpDat can watch the whole chain.
The power. Current draw at the panel, phase by phase. When grid power drops, you know straight away — a room that is not being cooled is a room on a clock.
The compressor. Current draw on the equipment itself. Current sensors on compressor circuits detect the moment a compressor stops drawing power — hours before the temperature climbs high enough to trigger a thermal alarm. Power-state monitoring does the same for anything with a plug. Strain shows up here before it shows up in the air.
The room. Temperature and humidity, continuously, and the record an inspector will ask for.
How far down the chain you go is your call. We audit the facility, show you what can be monitored, and you decide the depth.
What that looked like in practice
One customer asked for a single thing: tell us when grid power goes down.
Monitoring the panel to answer that question also showed a phase drawing 10.4 amps against 25.4 and 24.2 on the other two — an imbalance nobody was looking for. It led management to the source of a problem that was likely driving compressor failure.
They asked for an alert. They got the cause.
We monitor: panel current by phase, equipment current (compressor-stopped detection), power/socket state, temperature and humidity
Typical alerts: critical voice call the minute current drops — because this alert is the one that saves a freezer of product
Doors tell the truth
A propped cooler door is invisible on a paper log and obvious in your data. Door-contact monitoring time-stamps every open and close, alerts when a door stays open past your limit, and builds a chain-of-custody record of access to product areas — documentation that matters when product integrity is questioned.
We monitor: door and access contacts on coolers, freezers, and product areas
Typical alerts: warning at 10 minutes open, critical at 30 — SMS to the floor lead
Document the conditions, not just the temperature
Water where it shouldn’t be, ammonia near refrigeration equipment, CO2 in enclosed spaces — facility risks that insurers ask about and inspectors notice. Continuous detection with documented response history turns “we check regularly” into a record you can show.
We monitor: water leak (spot and zone), gas detection including ammonia, CO2 and air quality, pipe pressure, tank/bin level
Typical alerts: critical on detection, to maintenance and management simultaneously — with webhook into your maintenance system
Same compliance engine, different walk-in
Cold storage & distribution — customer-facing proof of cold chain integrity, dock-door discipline
Dairies & creameries — tank temps, pasteurization support records, CIP water temps
Co-packers — per-client compliance documentation that wins audits and contracts
School & institutional kitchens — health-department-ready logs without the clipboard
Pharmacies & clinics — vaccine and medication storage records, out-of-range documentation
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