Cold Chain Monitoring & Leakage Detection at a Retail Store in Paralimni, Cyprus

Customer: Retail Store (Supermaket) at Paralimni, Cyprus

Challenge: Monitor the temperature in the store’s refrigeration units and generate reports and alerts when pre-defined temperature thresholds are exceeded. Monitor the presence of water in an underground warehouse, and control the system of water pumps to remove the water.

Solution Provided: Deployment of an indoor LoRaWAN network covering all the areas of the retail shop. The LoRaWAN network is used to support the communication with temperature sensors installed in the store’s stand alone and walk-in refrigeration units. The system collects temperature measurements every 10 minutes and checks if the measured temperature is within the pre-defined temperature thresholds. If not an alert is generated and a notification is send to the system users through push notification, SMS and email. Moreover, the measurements are stored on the cloud platform allowing the users to access historical data that could be used for reports and/or hygiene services inspections.

We have also deployed LoRaWAN spot leakage detection sensors in an underground warehouse which detect the presence of water. If any water leakage is detected the systems notifies the users and at the same time a LoRaWAN controllers switches on 2 water pumps to remove the water. Another sensors, informs the system when all the water is removed to switch off the water pumps.

LoRaWAN Network

• Store wide LoRaWAN network based on 4 x RAK Wireless Indoor Gateways the ThinsNetwork Network Server

Indoor Air Quality and Environment Monitoring Sensors

• 52 x Milesight EM300 Series LoRaWAN Temperature & Humidity Sensors

• 4 x Milesight EM500 Series LoRaWAN Temperature Sensors with Probe

• 2 x Milesight EM300 Series LoRaWAN Spot Leakage Detection Sensors

• 1 x Milesight UC300 LoRaWAN Controller

Web Platform & Mobile Application

• CyRIC IoT Web Platform and CyRIC IoT Mobile Application