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Temperature Data Logger - How To Choose The Best One For Your Needs

Adapt Ideations • Nov 28, 2022

What Is Asset Tracking?

The process of asset tracking plays a significant role in providing visibility within and throughout the greater supply chain industry. Asset tracking is essentially the ability to monitor the status of a shipment in transit. This inventive strategy allows for fragile and sensitive goods such as biopharmaceuticals, cold chain logistics, perishables, and valuables to be closely monitored, therefore avoiding significant risks that can occur, including disruption or violation of set conditions of the shipment.

One of the most accurate methods of asset tracking is to utilise a solution known as a temperature data logger. A data logger is a small device that has the ability to track and trace vital metrics during the course of a consignment. These metrics include location, temperature, light and shock. Data loggers are generally linked to a user-friendly portal like platform where the gathered data can be viewed and downloaded in order to be analysed. These important findings can then be implemented in order to improve the quality of future shipments. Utilising a temperature data logger can help avoid the aforementioned risks of lost, stolen, or damaged goods. This in turn can assist to reduce any waste and therefore help the client run a more sustainable and functional business.

Types of Temperature Data Loggers:

Data loggers are made up of powerful technology that is able to track and trace the status of goods during the transportation journey. They are able to collect vital metrics such as location, temperature, light and shock and provide users with data that can be used to improve the quality of their logistics processes. Finding the best temperature data logger to suit the client’s needs can take some trial and error. Three primary types of data loggers are as follows:

1. Single-Use

Single-use loggers can only be used for one leg of a shipment. This is because single-use loggers do not have the ability to send reverse logistics data. Reverse logistics is a sub-process within the supply chain where the device can be tracked as it returns to the sender of the consignment. Single-use loggers can be quite useful to companies that are not expecting anything to be returned once the shipment is delivered. They are also a cost-effective solution which can be good for smaller businesses with a lower bracket budget.

2. Multi-Use

Multi-use loggers are the most well-rounded version of a temperature data logger, as they are able to cover the entire shipment’s journey including its return back to the sender. Another feature of these devices is that they also tend to cover a wider range of metrics that can be monitored. As multi-use data loggers often have a greater number of capabilities compared to single-use solutions, they can be more expensive however the cost can be lowered as they can be used as many times as a user wishes. In addition, they can be considered as a sustainable monitoring option due to their reusability.

3. Data Loggers With Probes

Data loggers tend to track temperature data as one of the vital metrics. However, in most cases data loggers tend to monitor a standard range between -20°C to 60°C. While the temperature range can cater to a large number of use cases, industries such as pharmaceuticals can require ultra-negative temperature monitoring. This is where data loggers with probes are necessary to measure the temperature accurately. A probe is a small attachment connected to a data logging device that has the ability to extensively increase the temperature monitoring ability of a logger, allowing for the device to have the ability to track a wider variety of goods.

Which Industries Use Data Loggers?

There are many industries that can make use of a data logger. Though these devices can be used to track valuable and fragile goods, a key area where they play an integral role is for the monitoring of temperature-sensitive goods. These can include biopharmaceuticals such as vaccines, perishable food products, or cold chain logistics. Finding the best temperature data logger to suit a client’s need is imperative to ensuring that a consignment reaches its destination and remains compliant.

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How Can Adapt Ideations Help?

Data loggers are a highly versatile and powerful solution that can change the way assets are monitored throughout cold chain logistics and more broadly the greater supply chain. Without these devices, the level of difficulty would be exponential in maintaining visibility and monitoring the status of consignments throughout the transportation process.

Adapt Ideations offers a wide variety of data loggers, making the process of finding the best temperature data logger significantly simpler. Each model that we have innovated is built to suit a unique use case. We provide three main data logging ranges, known as KELVIN, PROTON and PIXEL. The KELVIN range includes our all-rounder devices, as they offer insight into the widest number of metrics available including location, temperature, shock, and light. They are also lightweight, flight safe, and connected to a secured cloud portal that sends near real-time notifications to the client whenever a violation occurs. Similarly, the PROTON range is able to track temperature, however these USB loggers are single-use making them a simple and affordable solution. For stationary shipments that are kept in cold storage warehouses, our PIXEL range is solely focused on providing accurate temperature and humidity data that can help ensure products are kept within correct conditions in cold storage facilities.