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/ case study · cold chain · 2025

Six tools, four spreadsheets, paper logs.
Replaced in 12 weeks.

A UK cold-chain logistics operator with a 90-vehicle fleet and three regional DCs replaced its fragmented monitoring stack with a single IoT-WorkS deployment — and recovered the cost in eight months.

industry
Cold-chain logistics
scale
2,400 sensors · 90 vehicles · 3 DCs
deployment
12 weeks · 4 engineers
payback
8 months
temperature deviations
-78%
vs prior 6-month baseline
audit time
-92%
2 days → 90 minutes per quarter
bookings auto-handled
73%
first month, AI Booking Engine
product loss
£0
Q1 + Q2 2025 (vs £180k prior year)
01 · the challenge

Visibility ended at the depot gate.

Manual fridge-temperature logs in each vehicle. Loggers downloaded weekly. Compressor failures noticed only after product loss. Audit prep meant two days of admin per quarter.

  • ×6 separate tools across vehicles, DCs, ports
  • ×4 manual spreadsheets reconciled monthly
  • ×Paper logs in vehicle gloveboxes
  • ×£180k of product written off in 2024
02 · the solution

One platform. End to end.

2,400 IoT-WorkS sensors across 90 vehicles + 3 DCs. AI Telemetry layered on top. AI Booking Engine connected to the maintenance team's inbox.

  • VS-T200 temp/humidity in every vehicle + DC
  • VS-D300 door sensors for chain-of-custody
  • VT-F100 4G+GPS trackers per vehicle
  • VG-E300 edge gateways at each DC
03 · the outcome

Audit-ready, every day.

Live visibility on every asset. Predicted compressor failures 7–11 days early. FSA + MHRA exports generated in 30 seconds.

  • Zero product loss in Q1 + Q2 2025
  • Quarterly audit prep: 2d → 90m
  • 11 predicted failures pre-empted
  • Cost recovered in 8 months
/ deployment timeline · 12 weeks

From signed contract to fleet-wide rollout.

weeks 1–2

Pilot

3 vehicles + 1 DC. Sensors + gateways shipped. Calibration certificates issued.

weeks 3–4

Baseline

Per-asset ML baselines learned. Audit-export templates configured for FSA + MHRA.

weeks 5–8

Rollout

Sensors fitted across 90 vehicles + 3 DCs. Driver app onboarded. Alerts wired to ops Slack.

weeks 9–12

AI Bookings

Booking Engine connected to maintenance inbox. Telemetry → job auto-creation enabled. 73% auto-handle rate by week 12.

“The ML caught the failures, the booking engine dispatched the engineers — we recovered the cost in eight months. Audit prep used to be two days a quarter; now it's 90 minutes.”

Operations Director
UK cold-chain logistics · 2,400 sensors · 90 vehicles
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