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Cover the legs, starting with the ones that stand still.
A distribution chain is a sequence of handovers, and most of the temperature risk sits in the pauses rather than the movement. Goods wait on a dock, sit in a staging bay while paperwork clears, or hold overnight before a morning run.
Those points are fixed, powered and easy to instrument, and they are where TempGuard goes first. Each staging bay, holding room and origin or destination store gets its own probe, its own range and its own recipients, reporting over its own SIM.
For vehicles, coverage and power vary by route and by fleet. Tell us the routes you run and what you need to prove across them, and we will scope it with you rather than assume one arrangement fits every leg.
Through the chilled band the sensor reads to within ±0.5 °C. The operating range runs from -55 °C to +125 °C, so frozen consignments are covered. If a consignor holds you to a tighter measurement margin at deep-freeze temperatures, tell us the tolerance and we will scope the sensor for it.
The answer to "what happened to my consignment".
In distribution the goods belong to someone else and the dispute is usually about a specific load on a specific day. A record that can be produced quickly, for one window, is worth more than a dashboard nobody opens.
- Continuous readings per point
- Each bay, room or unit independently, around the clock, every reading timestamped by the server rather than by the device.
- All four channels
- A breach dispatches a phone call, WhatsApp, email and mobile push together, to whoever is responsible for that site at that hour.
- Escalation
- An alert nobody acknowledges within 60 minutes escalates, which matters most on the legs that run outside office hours.
- Excursions as their own records
- Duration and depth per event, so a claim about one consignment is answered with the window in question rather than a month of readings.
- Silence detected
- A device that stops reporting is flagged after 24 hours, so a gap in a leg's history is an event rather than an absence.
- Nothing can be rewritten
- A stored reading cannot be edited or deleted by any account, including ours. When the record is the evidence in a dispute, that matters.
- Scoped access
- Users see only the sites assigned to them, so a customer or a subcontractor can be given a view without seeing the rest of the network.
- Export per site or per window
- Readings, excursions and the change log as CSV, plus a summary as PDF, for whatever range is in question.
Where it goes in practice.
- Staging & cross-dock bays
- Short-dwell space beside an open door, the most exposed point in the chain and the least likely to be logged.
- Origin & destination stores
- The two ends you control. Together they bracket the journey, which is often enough to place where a problem started.
- Holding rooms & overnight parks
- Where a load waits for a morning run, unattended for the hours nobody is watching.
- Air cargo & port handling
- Sharjah and Dubai are transit hubs, and consignments change custody several times between aircraft and consignee. Each handover is a point that can be recorded.
- Last-mile depots
- The final holding point before delivery boxes go out, where a chain that held all the way can still be lost in the last hour.
- Vehicles
- Reefers and delivery units, scoped per fleet and per route.
What you are carrying decides what it has to hold.
Transport bands follow the cargo, and they are broadly the same wherever you run.
Food in transit
- Chilled
- At or below about 5 °C through loading, transit and handover.
- Hot
- At or above about 60 °C for ready food carried hot.
- Frozen
- At or below -18 °C.
- Ambient loads
- Dry and canned goods still have a ceiling, commonly around 30 °C, and are the legs most often left unmonitored.
Medical products in transit
- Refrigerated
- 2 °C to 8 °C, the international cold chain band, held across every leg rather than checked at the ends.
- Sealed and monitored
- Medical consignments are generally expected to move in sealed, temperature-monitored containers, with the monitoring data available on arrival.
- Reviewed at handover
- The record is not filed and forgotten. It is read on receipt to decide whether the consignment held its conditions, which is exactly what a per-leg history is for.
What the evidence has to show
- Each leg, continuously
- Every bay, room or unit independently, so a gap can be placed rather than guessed at.
- Excursions with duration and depth
- A claim about one consignment answered with the window in question, not a month of readings.
- A record nobody can adjust
- A stored reading cannot be edited or deleted by any account, including ours. When the record is the evidence in a dispute, that matters.
- Scoped access
- A consignor or subcontractor can be given a view of their sites without seeing the rest of the network.
- Export per site or per window
- CSV and PDF for whatever range is in question.
The figures above are how cold chain distribution is generally run. They are not a statement of what the law requires of you. Requirements differ by emirate, by country, by cargo, by licence and by whether a free zone is involved, and they change. Cargo outside these two regimes will have requirements of its own that are not described here.
Your licensing authority, your consignors and your own quality team decide what applies to your operation. If you need the specifics, ask them directly rather than relying on any vendor's website, including ours.
If you need something specific that we do not produce today, tell us and we will scope it.