Protecting your business from cyber-attacks: Temperature monitoring that’s independent of fridge management systems

Kelsius provides independent temperature monitoring. It does not control the operation of refrigerators or freezers.

This distinction is key following the recent reports of cyber incidents affecting refrigeration systems across Europe.

Kelsius sensors independently monitor temperatures within refrigerated environments. The Kelsius system does not control the refrigeration unit, compressor, defrost cycles or other operational functions.

This separation is important.

If a refrigeration control system experiences a fault, malfunction or cybersecurity incident that results in a temperature deviation, Kelsius provides an independent monitoring layer designed to detect that deviation and alert designated personnel.

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Kelsius applies established cybersecurity controls across its platform, including:

  • ISO 27001 compliance through its cloud hosting partner, AWS
  • Cyber Essentials certification
  • Encryption of data at rest and in transit
  • Multi-factor authentication, roles and permissions
  • Secure software development practices including threat modelling, code reviews, vulnerability management, incident resolution management and security testing

Data Resilience and Backup

Kelsius has multiple layers of data resilience built into the monitoring system.

  • If communication between an individual sensor and the Network Controller is interrupted, monitored data is retained locally by the sensor and transmitted once communication is restored. The Network Controller also incorporates local memory, providing another layer of protection against the loss of monitoring records.
  • The Network Controller has an integral back-up battery, allowing the monitoring system to continue operating during a power interruption. The system can also alert designated personnel should the Network Controller lose communication with the Kelsius portal.
  • Once transferred to the Kelsius cloud platform, data benefits from resilient storage, backup and redundancy, including self-healing data storage and automated crash recovery across multiple data centres.

This multi-layered approach provides resilience at the sensor, Network Controller and cloud platform levels, meaning that a temporary loss of network connectivity does not automatically result in the loss of temperature records.

Kelsius monitors your refrigeration equipment, it does not control it.

The key reassurance that Kelsius provides is that it operates independently of refrigeration control systems. Should refrigeration equipment experience a fault or disruption, Kelsius provides a separate layer of monitoring designed to identify any resulting temperature deviation and alert your team, allowing you to take appropriate action quickly and protect your products.

Contact Kelsius to start independent monitoring of your valuable stock today.

Kelsius Shortlisted for Retail Technology Supplier at the ShelfLife C-Store Awards 2026

Kelsius is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted in the category of Retail Technology Supplier 2026, sponsored by Maxol, at the ShelfLife National C-Store Awards.

With hundreds of Irish retailers casting their votes, this recognition is significant for Kelsius. The provide of digital HACCP and wireless temperature monitoring solutions to the retailers and is proud to support the businesses, teams and entrepreneurs who keep Irish retail moving, and the Kelsius team is grateful that retailers have recognised their contribution to the sector.

Supporting food safety in Irish retail

Busy retail teams need practical tools that make everyday food safety tasks easier to manage. Kelsius solutions help retailers reduce manual paperwork, maintain food safety records and respond to temperature issues.

From chilled storage to food preparation areas, the technology that Kelsius has been nominated for helps teams protect food, manage compliance and spend more time focusing on their customers. Being shortlisted is a welcome recognition of that work and the relationships Kelsius continues to build with retailers.

Celebrating 25 years of retail excellence

The 25th annual awards, held in association with Cuisine de France and The National Lottery, will take place at Dublin’s Royal Marine Hotel on 26 November 2026, when the winners will be announced.

Kelsius thanks those who voted for the company and congratulates its fellow nominees across all categories.

Letterkenny University Hospital strengthens its temperature controls with Kelsius

Maintaining medicines at the correct temperature is essential for protecting product quality and supporting patient safety.

At Letterkenny University Hospital, the pharmacy team needed a more reliable and efficient way to monitor temperature-controlled storage across multiple wards and departments. Manual temperature recording was replaced with Kelsius’ automated, paperless monitoring system.

 

 

Wireless sensors now continuously monitor storage temperatures and automatically alert staff when readings move outside defined limits. Authorised users can securely access live readings, historical data and traceable reports, helping the team respond quickly and prepare more efficiently for audits.

The system has improved oversight, reduced the risk of human error and significantly lowered the potential for costly product loss. According to the hospital’s Chief Pharmacist, the system recovered its costs within one year and helped save more than €40,000.

Read the full case study to discover how Letterkenny University Hospital strengthened temperature control and increased confidence in product quality and patient safety.

 

 

To start improving your compliance and efficiencies, contact Kelsius today.

Davy Byrnes simplifies food safety compliance, saves staff time and makes safety checks easier

Davy Byrnes is one of Dublin’s most recognised pubs, known for its literary heritage, distinctive character and reputation for quality food and hospitality. With a busy kitchen, multiple staff members and several cold-storage units, its food safety procedures must be efficient, reliable and easy to follow.

 

 

Before introducing Kelsius FoodCheck 2.0, the team relied on paper records to document food temperatures and daily HACCP checks. This required considerable staff time, created additional administration and made it more difficult for management to review completed checks.

With the implementation of FoodCheck 2.0, sensors now automatically monitor temperatures across multiple refrigeration and freezer units. Kitchen staff use connected digital probes to record cooked-food temperatures quickly during normal service.

The system has reduced paperwork and repetitive manual checks, while giving staff more time to focus on core kitchen duties. Straightforward digital processes are easy to learn and use across different shifts and experience levels.

Temperature records, completed checks and reports are stored digitally in one place. This gives Davy Byrnes management clearer oversight of food safety activity and allows reliable records to be accessed quickly for audits, internal reviews and Environmental Health Officer (EHO) inspections.

By improving consistency, accountability and access to information, FoodCheck 2.0 gives Davy Byrnes greater confidence that essential food safety checks are completed and that reliable evidence is available when required.

 

 

To start improving your compliance and efficiencies, contact Kelsius today.

“Excellent, reliable, effective.” The Marine Institute recommends Kelsius for labs.

The Marine Institute operates laboratories that require environmental and temperature-controlled equipment to ensure the integrity of samples, reagents, reference materials, and analytical processes. The Kelsius system provides the Marine Institute with real-time monitoring and automated alerts, enabling rapid response to temperature excursions and reducing the risk of sample loss or compromised analytical results.

The team at the Marine Institute found the web-based Kelsius platform user-friendly, allowing authorised personnel to access monitoring data and historical records easily, supporting both operational oversight and audit requirements.

“Since implementing the Kelsius system in 2017, we have found it to be an excellent, reliable and effective system for continuous temperature monitoring across our laboratory facilities”, said Yvonne Bogan, Quality Manager at the Marine Institute.

She continued: “We found the Kelsius team to be professional, responsive, and supportive throughout installation, validation, training, and ongoing system maintenance. Any technical queries or service requests have been addressed promptly and effectively.

“From a quality management perspective, the Kelsius system just runs reliably in the background providing confidence that critical temperature-controlled equipment remains under constant surveillance.”

Enhanced Compliance

For quality management, Kelsius helps The Marine Institute to meet accreditation requirements by providing:

  • secure data logging
  • traceable records
  • comprehensive reporting capabilities
  • enhanced compliance with quality standards
  • the ability to streamline evidence-gathering during audits

Contact Kelsius to learn more about automated temperature monitoring to protect samples and products in laboratories.  

Compliance and efficiencies ‘significantly improved’ at Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn

In a busy hospital catering environment, food safety, traceability and patient service are critical. At The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, the catering team manages high volumes of daily food production, with strict compliance requirements across delivery, preparation and service.

Before introducing Kelsius FoodCheck 2.0, the team relied heavily on paper-based records. This created challenges around incomplete documentation, damaged paperwork, manual checks and limited real-time visibility of fridge and freezer performance.

 

Following implementation of the Kelsius system, the hospital moved to digital food safety records, automated temperature monitoring and real-time reporting. Staff now complete checks using tablets and probes, while supervisors have instant visibility of completed and outstanding tasks.

The result is a more efficient, transparent and audit-ready approach to food safety. The team has reduced paperwork, improved accountability, strengthened compliance, and gained better insight into food waste and menu planning.

With Kelsius FoodCheck 2.0, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn has created a simpler, smarter and more reliable way to manage food safety, supporting both operational performance and patient service.

 

 

To start improving your compliance and efficiencies, contact Kelsius today.

Kelsius protects over 90 pharmacy fridges and freezers at St Vincent’s University Hospital

St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH), one of Ireland’s leading academic teaching hospitals, needed a reliable way to continuously monitor more than 90 medication fridges across its campus, including out of hours and at weekends. 

With the Kelsius remote, wireless and paperless temperature monitoring system, SVUH now has 24-hour visibility of fridges, freezers and incubators containing medication, with real-time alerts, corrective action records and reporting available through the Kelsius portal.

 

 

The system has helped SVUH respond quickly to temperature deviations, identify trends such as doors left ajar, and strengthen medication storage compliance across the hospital. Over one three-month period, the potential maximum financial saving from avoided stock loss was approximately €120,000.

Read the full case study to see how SVUH improved hospital-wide temperature monitoring with Kelsius.

 

 

To book your free Kelsius demo, contact the Kelsius sales team.

Hours saved daily, instant traceability – just some of the benefits The Beaumont Mayfair enjoys using Kelsius

Operating at five-star standards leaves no room for compromise, especially when it comes to food safety. At The Beaumont Mayfair, a luxury London hotel with multiple kitchens, dining areas, and service environments, maintaining compliance across departments was becoming increasingly complex.

The Challenge

Before introducing Kelsius FoodCheck 2.0, the team relied heavily on paper-based processes. This created unnecessary administration, limited real-time visibility, and introduced risk around record accuracy, particularly during busy service periods. In an environment where rapid access to accurate data is critical, this approach left gaps in traceability and audit readiness.

 

 

Following implementation of the Kelsius system, the impact was immediate.

Digital workflows replaced manual checks, allowing kitchen teams to complete tasks quickly and consistently using probes and tablets. Management gained instant oversight across more than 20 refrigeration units, with automated monitoring and alerts helping prevent stock loss and reduce risk. Reporting, once time-consuming, is now accessible in seconds, supporting daily operations and audit preparation.

Hours saved daily, instant traceability

The hotel estimates a time saving of two to three hours per day, driven by faster checks, automated monitoring, and streamlined reporting. Beyond efficiency, the shift to tamper-proof digital records has strengthened due diligence and eliminated the risk of falsified entries.

Crucially, the system provides instant traceability across all operations, from goods-in to cooking compliance, while remaining flexible enough to match the hotel’s HACCP requirements.

Today, Kelsius is embedded across the Beaumont’s kitchens, pastry, private dining, and bar operations. The result is a more controlled, consistent, and confident approach to food safety, one that meets the expectations of a five-star environment while freeing up valuable time for staff to focus on service.

 

 

To book your free Kelsius demo, contact the Kelsius sales team.

 

Dubai-based FITT Meals trusts Kelsius to protect their food and their business

Meal prep company FITT Meals is responsible for creating, preparing and delivering hundreds of thousands of meals in the UAE. They use Kelsius systems throughout their production processes to protect their food and their business.

Established in 2019, the FITT Meals business was started by Founded and CEO Eoin Cantwell. The aim of the company is to help health-conscious customers with busy lifestyles to save time but not sacrifice nutrition when it comes to mealtimes. FITT Meals shops, prepares, cooks, chills and delivers delicious and nutritionally balanced meals direct to over 500,000 customers throughout the UAE.

 

With affordable meal plans that provide maximum nutritional value and food quality, FITT Meals needed a temperature monitoring system that removed the need for paperwork and automated monitoring for improved efficiencies. As a company that strives to innovate and to be the best at what it does, they chose Kelsius to give them the confidence that they had an automated temperature monitoring system in place that they could rely on.

FITT Meals has recently opened a new warehouse and purpose-built facility to cater for their growing demand. With a now significantly larger operation, FITT Meals trusts Kelsius to monitor all the fresh food that passes through every stage of the production process including delivery, storage and food preparation.

Founder and CEO of FITT Meals, Eoin Cantwell said, “Moving into our new facility, there always needs to be investments upfront. One of the smartest ones we’ve made is with Kelsius, which literally ensures our food safety and ensures that our temperatures are all on check. It’s all done remotely, and everything is absolutely guaranteed for us. It’s a huge comfort knowing that we have a company like Kelsius behind us, keeping our compliance and our products up to date.”

Watch the video to learn more about how FITT Meals management trusts Kelsius.

To book your free Kelsius demo, contact the Kelsius sales team.

Keith Grant Master Butchers uses the Kelsius system to simplify food safety checks and ensure temperature compliance

Keith Grant is the owner of Keith Grant Master Butchers, an award-winning butcher shop known for high quality meat products and traditional craft butchery.

In his butcher shop, Keith replaced manual temperature checks with the Kelsius FoodCheck 2.0 system, which provides a simple and reliable digital workflow that helps ensure food safety checks are completed and Environmental Health Officer requirements are met.

 

WATCH – KEITH GRANT TALKS ABOUT
THE BENEFITS OF USING THE KELSIUS SYSTEM

Describing how the Kelsius system has helped his business, Keith said, “Before we got Kelsius in, we just had paper trails. It was a nightmare. When we lost power overnight, we ended up losing an awful lot of stock. Kelsius has saved that from happening ever again…It’s absolutely transformed our business. It’s saved me tonnes of money!”

Staff no longer need to record temperatures manually throughout the day. Fridge and freezer temperatures are monitored continuously and all readings are automatically recorded within the system.

Digital records can be accessed at any time and compliance reports can be generated quickly when required. This helps the business demonstrate food safety procedures during inspections.

Real-time alerts also provide an additional safeguard. If a fridge or freezer temperature moves outside the correct range, the Kelsius system sends an alert so staff can respond quickly and take action.

The result is less time spent on paperwork, clear records for compliance, and reassurance that temperatures are being monitored at all times.