Global Restaurant Chain Immediately Saved £1.25M with Sensor Technology
Pippa Boothman
18. Nov 2020 |
3 min read
Pippa Boothman
18. Nov 2020 |
3 min read
Due to the COVID-19 lock-down, a global restaurant chain in the UK (ca. 100 locations) was facing a cold monitoring problem: How to monitor daily freezers as per UK regulations when employees are not on location?
The risk was to compromise more than £1.25 million in food stock, generating a financial and environmental disaster. Without a possibility to remotely monitor the temperature in each freezer and to act accordingly if necessary, the global chain would not have been able to ensure that the food stayed at a correct and safe temperature after reopening, leaving them no choice but to throw away their entire inventory.
In a few days, our customer needed a solution that:
Within three days, the Infogrid cold storage solution powered by Disruptive Technologies was implemented in all locations. Then, when needed, alerts allowed their staff to move food to a functioning freezer or to fix malfunctioning ones. As a result, ensuring the correct storage, more than £1.25 million in food inventory was saved. That amounts to cost savings of 4,462.04%.
In addition, thanks to the 24/7 monitoring system (compared to the daily physical monitoring), eight freezers have been identified as not operating within the expected parameters and temperature incidents have been detected on five others.
" Crisis averted thanks to Infogrid. I was so impressed at the speed and ease at which we were able to install sensors across every site and start collecting data. Not only did it save £1.25m of food stock, but it also helped us to manage our sites remotely during lockdown, and automatically alerted us about multiple faults with our freezers." Safety and Risk Manager, Global Restaurant Chain |
Sensors used to be bulky, complex, and often inaccurate. We've completely rethought sensor design to enable data collection anywhere and everywhere.
There's no need to "rip and replace" legacy systems to turn them into "smart" equipment.
Pippa is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Disruptive Technologies. She has 15+ years in global B2C and B2B marketing & sales, brand management & strategy, and business development within technology, apparel, and consumer goods. She holds a BA in sociology and criminology from Western University in Canada. Pippa is passionate about people, products, and the planet and she is an ardent advocate of fantastic customer service. Her best ideas come when she is reading, running, biking, traveling, talking to strangers, and doing headstands.
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