Cold chain
An agile cold chain sees the problem coming.
South African logistics is tested constantly by weather and infrastructure. Efficiency is not enough; agility is what keeps product intact. Augos gives your cold chain real-time visibility and predictive insight, so you adjust course before a threat becomes a loss.
- Real-time temperature and location data acts as your operational radar, so you can reroute or intervene before cargo drifts out of spec.
- Predictive insight from historical data forecasts equipment failure and seasonal disruption, turning guesswork into data-backed decisions.
- With backup power and NB-IoT, alerts still fire during a power failure, when you most need them.
Real-time visibility: your operational radar
South Africa's cold chain is a moving target. A road closure, a power cut or an unexpected heatwave can compromise product integrity in minutes. Real-time data is what lets you see it happening.
Sensors track temperature and location continuously and feed it back to the platform, which lets you:
- Adjust proactively. Reroute a refrigerated truck around a sudden closure, or bring storage down ahead of a heatwave, before cargo temperature drifts out of spec.
- Mitigate, not recover. Address a threat while it is still a threat, turning reactive clean-up into proactive control.
With frequent unplanned power interruptions, business continuity through a cold-chain event is a real risk. Using Augos sensors with backup power and an NB-IoT link, a Gauteng distributor of frozen goods automatically alerted generator and maintenance crews during a power failure, saving an estimated R150,000 of perishable stock in a single incident.
Anticipating disruption with predictive insight
Real agility is forecasting the next problem, not just reacting to this one. The platform analyses your historical trends and performance to give:
- Predictive maintenance. Forecast when a refrigeration unit is likely to fail from its performance data, so you service it before it breaks.
- Inventory foresight. Anticipate slowdowns from seasonal weather or market shifts, and adjust stock to avoid overstocking or a shortage.
- Data-backed risk. Replace guesswork with modelling that reflects real local volatility.
Resilience, with people behind the data
No operation navigates this alone. Augos provides the data backbone plus the people to use it:
- One source of truth. A single, accessible view of cold-chain performance.
- Expert help. Specialists to interpret the data and tune protocols to local market and regulatory realities.
- Tools that keep improving. AI-assisted analysis to optimise routes and head off breaches before they happen.
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How does Augos help with unpredictable weather and infrastructure?
Sensors continuously report temperature and location to the platform, so when a road closes, the power drops or a heatwave hits, you can reroute a truck or adjust storage before cargo temperature drifts out of specification, rather than discovering the loss afterwards.
What do predictive insights give me?
The platform analyses your historical data to forecast when a refrigeration unit is likely to fail, and to anticipate seasonal slowdowns, so you can schedule maintenance early and adjust inventory instead of reacting to a breakdown or a shortage.
Do alerts still work during load shedding?
Yes. With sensors on backup power and a robust NB-IoT link, the platform keeps reporting and can automatically alert generator and maintenance crews during a power failure.
Start small
Start with a single sensor.
No rip-and-replace and no commitment: a single sensor can be live in 48 hours, and you add more once it proves out. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring to run and no calibration to perform.
Augos Sense is priced in three parts: the sensors, priced per sensor by what each one is built to measure; connectivity, a monthly cost per sensor; and the platform, one charge per deployment. Figures on request: we size a quote, ex VAT, to the sensors and sites you need.
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