Food-safety oversight, from cold storage to CIP
Sentrel watches the temperatures, fill weights, and clean-in-place cycles that keep product safe and auditors satisfied. Stand it up on the PLCs and sensors you already run, in an afternoon.
The monitoring challenge on a food & beverage line
In food and beverage, a missed temperature excursion is not a nuisance alarm, it is a recall, a destroyed batch, and a visit from your auditor. Yet most plants still chase food safety with clipboards, manual cooler-walk logs, and a patchwork of vendor displays that do not talk to each other. CIP verification lives in a binder, fill-weight checks are spot-sampled by hand, and your HACCP critical control points are only as reliable as the operator who remembered to write them down. When the FDA or a customer audit asks you to prove a cold chain held last March, you are reconstructing it from paper.
- Temperature excursions in cold storage and process lines go unseen until product is already at risk
- CIP cycle verification trapped in binders, not provable on demand
- Manual cooler logs and spot-sampled fill weights leave gaps an auditor will find
- 21 CFR Part 11 and HACCP records scattered across vendors, paper, and spreadsheets
What you can monitor here
Sentrel reads the equipment that actually runs your plant, no matter who made it. A lightweight edge connector pulls from your existing PLCs and sensors over Modbus and OPC-UA, so you monitor mixed-vendor gear without ripping anything out or waiting on a manufacturer. Describe what each asset does in plain English and Sentrel generates the typed schema and the alert rules to match.
- Cold storage & refrigeration: zone temperature, humidity, door-open duration, compressor and defrost status
- Ovens & thermal process: setpoint vs. actual temperature, dwell time, ramp profiles
- CIP systems: cycle temperature, caustic/acid concentration, flow rate, contact time, conductivity per phase
- Fillers: fill weight and volume, reject counts, fill-accuracy trend per head
- Mixers & batch/process lines: batch temperature, agitation, viscosity, recipe-step adherence
How Sentrel fits, and the outcome
Every reading lands with a tamper-evident integrity hash and a full WORM audit trail, so your cold-chain history and CIP records are provable for 21 CFR Part 11 the moment an auditor or customer asks, not reconstructed after the fact. A per-reading rule engine catches a cooler drifting out of spec or a CIP phase that ran short, and pushes the alert in real time over WebSocket, in-app toast, webhook, or email before product is compromised. RBAC and module permissions keep QA, maintenance, and operators in their lanes. The result: continuous, signed proof of food safety instead of a clipboard, alerts that protect batches instead of explaining losses, and audit prep measured in clicks instead of weeks.
- Tamper-evident hash plus WORM audit trail on every reading for 21 CFR Part 11 and HACCP
- Real-time excursion and CIP-failure alerts before product is at risk
- AI-editable live dashboards and SCADA views for cold chain, fill accuracy, and CIP
- Stands up on hardware you already own in an afternoon, not a 6-18 month integration
Food & Beverage, answered.
It works with what you own. A lightweight Node-RED edge connector reads your existing PLCs and sensors over Modbus and OPC-UA, then forwards over MQTT or HTTPS. No proprietary sensors, no manufacturer cooperation, and no rip-and-replace across mixed-vendor equipment.
Every reading is stored with a tamper-evident integrity hash and a full WORM audit trail, so temperature history, CIP cycle records, and fill-weight data are provable on demand. RBAC and module permissions control who can see and change what, giving you the electronic-record controls an auditor expects.
Yes. A per-reading rule engine evaluates temperature, humidity, CIP concentration, contact time, flow, and fill weight as data arrives, and fires real-time alerts over WebSocket, in-app toast, webhook, and email so you act before product is compromised.
Stop integrating. Start monitoring.
Describe what you want to watch, connect the gateway you already own, and be live this afternoon — no integrator, no proprietary hardware, no six-month project.