SEN-AIN
Node+ Embedded
Sealed wireless temperature sensor for fridges, freezers and stores.
- LoRaWAN
- Temperature
Specs Datasheet
For cold stores, food and drink distributors and 3PL warehouses
Temperature records your BRCGS auditor can follow, and stock you keep
BRCGS Storage and Distribution asks for alarms or recorded checks on every controlled store, mapped temperature distribution, calibrated sensors and time limits outside control. We cover a single cold store or an estate of depots on one record. Nestlé's UK warehouse runs at 99% optimal temperature performance on JTF.
- Chillers, freezers, cold rooms, docks and vehicles on one record
- Every depot with its own limits, alarm routes and reports
- Traceable or UKAS calibration for every sensor we supply (UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 10723 for temperature)
Freezer room 204:05
−21.4°C
What auditors ask you
The standards your stores are audited against
Auditors from BRCGS, your customers and the local authority ask the same questions about temperature. Clause numbers are checked against the published standards; the wording is paraphrased.
- BRCGS S&D 7.3.2
Alarms or recorded checks
Temperature-controlled stores with recording equipment and suitable alarms, or recorded manual checks, typically at least every 4 hours.
Read the guide - BRCGS S&D 7.3.7
Temperature mapping
Uniformity of temperature in controlled stores established, validated and verified at a frequency based on risk, and re-established after equipment changes (7.3.8).
Read the guide - BRCGS S&D 7.3.4
Time outside control
Maximum times product may spend outside temperature control, set for loading, unloading and staging.
Read the guide - BRCGS S&D 6.3 and Food Safety 6.4
Calibrated measuring devices
Devices checked at a set frequency and traceable to a national standard, with action on product, and under S&D the product owner told, when one is found inaccurate.
Read the guide - QFF Regs 2007, Reg. 37/2005
Quick-frozen stock
Kept at −18 °C or colder, with EN 12830 recording instruments in stores and at least a year of dated records.
Read the guide - FSHR Sch. 4
Chill holding
Food that needs chilling kept at 8 °C or below in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with FSA guidance recommending fridges at 5 °C or below.
Read the guide
Audit-ready
An excursion caught, and the record your auditor wants
Cold store 1limits 0 to 5 °C
Defrost overran at 04:10: alarm raised, engineer called, corrective action recorded.
- RecordedEvery reading, automatically
- AlarmedLimits per store
- Corrective actionWho did what, when
- Signed offReviewed, ready to show
100%
of alarms acknowledged at a global food manufacturer in 2026, with every expected reading received
What we monitor
From the loading bay to the delivery
Over 95% optimal performance across a 25-site food distributor, on one record.
Cold stores and freezer rooms
Sensors where the stock sits, with door contacts on the doors that get left open.
Chillers, ambient warehouses and docks
Each zone with its own limits, so a summer heatwave or a slow load shows up before a customer complaint does.
Drinks, dairy and mixed loads
Chilled drinks, dairy and multi-temperature stock, each zone to the limit its product specification sets.
Vehicles
Monitored on the same platform as the store, so a load's record runs from dock to drop. See food and beverage transport.
Refrigeration plant
Energy monitoring on compressors, condensers and defrost, beside the cold store temperatures, so a plant working harder shows up early. See energy monitoring and our freezer door monitoring case study.
How JTF helps
Sensors that read where the stock sits
Sealed Node+ sensors for cold rooms and freezers, probes for blast freezers and tanks, door sensors, and gateways built for warehouses and yards. Node+ embedded and Node+ PT100 are designed to meet EN 12830:2018, accuracy class 0.2.
SEN-BEP
Node+ PT100
PT100 probe input for ultra-low freezers, tanks and medical fridges.
- LoRaWAN
- Temperature
- Door
Specs Datasheet
SEN-CED
Node+ Digital
Temperature and humidity through an external digital probe.
- LoRaWAN
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Door
Specs Datasheet
AC-DOOR-IND, AC-DOOR-2W
Door switches
Dry contact door switches for the Node+ range.
- Wired to Node+
- Door
Specs Datasheet
Specs Datasheet
Installed tracker
Hard-wired tracker with inputs for ignition, doors and probes.
- Cellular GPS
- Location
- Temperature (with Eye sensors)
- Door
Specs Spec on request
Our food guidance
The rules for stores, explained from their sources
BRCGS and temperature
Food Safety Issue 9 and Storage and Distribution Issue 4, clause by clause.
Read the guidanceWarehouse mapping and monitoring
Where the probes go, and how often to map.
Read the guidanceFrozen food and cold stores
−18 °C, the tolerances and EN 12830 recorders.
Read the guidanceProduct temperatures
Mince, poultry, meat, fish and the mixed chilled store.
Read the guidanceChilled food: 8 °C or 5 °C?
The legal ceiling, the advice figure and your own limit.
Read the guidanceWhere the rules differ
BRCGS, the law, the FSA and retailer codes side by side.
Read the guidance
Food and cold storage
99%
optimal temperature performance at Nestlé's UK warehouse, with 100% data completeness
Regulation: Nestlé quality and compliance requirements
Read the Nestlé UK & IRE storyServices for this sector
One team for monitoring, mapping, calibration and support
Temperature monitoring
Wireless sensors, alarms that reach a person and an audit trail of who acted.
Explore the serviceTemperature mapping
A managed study, from protocol to report, with probe positions you can defend.
Explore the serviceUKAS calibration
Temperature calibration in our UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 10723, or on your site.
Explore the serviceInstallation and support
Design, installation, training and engineer cover from one UK team.
Explore the service
Free checklist
Food temperature control: UK and Ireland at a glance
Chill, frozen and hot holding limits, tolerances, time rules and record periods for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Ireland, on one PDF. Every answer behind it is in our food temperature guidance, with its source.
Questions
What people in your sector ask us
Does BRCGS require automatic temperature monitoring?
Not in every case. It accepts recording equipment with alarms or recorded manual checks. Auditors and retail customers increasingly expect continuous records, and a manual check can't catch an overnight failure.
Can you cover several depots?
Yes. Each site keeps its own limits and alarm routes, and head office sees every site on one record. One 25-site food distributor sees Over 95% optimal performance on JTF, many sites higher.
How often should we map a cold store?
BRCGS asks for a frequency based on risk and gives no figure. Our recommendation: map each controlled store at commissioning, after any change to layout or refrigeration, and at least every three years. Temperature mapping is a JTF managed service: we plan, run and report the study, then place the monitoring at the hot and cold spots it finds.
Won't defrosts set the alarms off?
Not if the delay is right. We set each store's delay from its own defrost and door recovery data, so a normal defrost is recorded but doesn't page anyone, and a defrost that doesn't finish still does. Our frozen food guidance gives the figures we start from.
Do you monitor vehicles?
Yes, on the same platform as the store, so you can show an auditor or customer the temperature of a load from dispatch to delivery. See food and beverage transport.
Reviewed by Jake Farrow, Managing Director, on 19 October 2026.
Sources
- BRCGS Storage and Distribution (Issue 4) Standard
- BRCGS Food Safety (Issue 9) Standard
- The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (England) Regulations 2007
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 37/2005 on the monitoring of temperatures of quick-frozen foodstuffs
- The Food Safety and Hygiene (England) Regulations 2013, Schedule 4 (temperature control)
- Food Standards Agency: chilling (food hygiene for businesses)
20-minute compliance check
How would your next BRCGS audit go on temperature?
In 20 minutes we go through your stores, vehicles, alarms and calibration with you. You get the gaps in writing. No product tour.