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Energy insights (on the roadmap)

Status: roadmap, in active development. Temperature monitoring and HACCP reporting ship today. Energy insights add a per-asset power-monitoring layer that surfaces fridges working harder than they should be. Hardware design and customer trials are under way.

Refrigeration is the single biggest electricity load in most food-service venues. The Australian numbers are stark - around 260 GWh of refrigeration energy is wasted each year, costing the industry roughly $78 million and producing about 185 kt of CO~2~e. Most of that waste is fixable, but only if you can see which specific assets are wasting it.

Energy insights is the feature that makes that visible per asset, on the same dashboard you already use for temperature.

What energy insights will do

The first release is scoped to four jobs:

  1. Show live power draw (kW) and cumulative consumption (kWh) per cold-chain asset.
  2. Compare an asset's consumption to its own historical baseline, surfacing a fridge whose energy use has crept up.
  3. Compare an asset's consumption to peer assets of similar size and use, surfacing the outliers.
  4. Quantify the dollar and carbon cost of each waste signal, so the business case for a service visit writes itself.

All four show up on the existing asset view in the dashboard - no separate "energy app" to learn.

How it will work

Energy monitoring requires a power-monitoring sensor on the asset's mains feed (a clamp or a smart plug, depending on the asset). Once that hardware is installed, the cloud joins its power readings to the existing temperature readings against the same asset record.

The result is a unified view per asset:

  • Live temperature and live power side by side.
  • "This asset uses 1.4x more kWh per cold litre than the median of similar assets across all your sites."
  • "This asset's daily consumption has trended up 18% over the last 60 days while temperature behaviour is unchanged - likely a coil cleaning or door seal issue."
  • "If this asset returned to its baseline efficiency, you would save ~$72/month and 220 kg CO~2~e/year."

Why we are doing this

ChillSense started life as a food-safety platform, but as soon as customers had per-asset visibility into temperature, the very next question was always "and which of these fridges is costing me the most to run?" Both questions are answered with the same underlying data infrastructure; it would be a waste not to.

There is also a sustainability dimension: every customer who fixes a degrading fridge saves real kWh and real CO~2~e. The platform's job is to make those savings opportunities visible enough that they actually get acted on, instead of being invisible until the energy bill arrives.

What ships today

Today, ChillSense does not directly measure power. The platform measures temperature and humidity and uses those to detect issues that often correlate with energy waste (e.g. a fridge that is over-cooling, a sensor stuck near a chronically warm zone). For most operators, fixing the temperature issues surfaced today already produces meaningful energy savings - the asset is no longer over-cooling, the door seals get replaced sooner, the coils get cleaned before the compressor labours.

Energy insights make the energy savings explicit and measurable. Until they ship, the HACCP reports and temperature monitoring views are doing the same work indirectly.

Hardware timeline

The temperature-monitoring side of the platform is hardware-stable; the energy-monitoring side is going through trials with hospitality and small-manufacturing customers across 2026. We will not promote energy insights to a buyable SKU until the hardware can be ordered with confidence and the dashboard view is genuinely useful.

If you want to be in that trial cohort:

  • Contact us and mention "energy insights trial".
  • Trial sites get the power-monitoring hardware at cost and a direct line into the team building the feature.

Pricing intent

The pricing model has not been finalised, but the working principle is the same as drift detection: existing customers should not face a separate subscription for the analytics; the per-asset power-monitoring hardware will be its own SKU, and the analytics on top will be included in the standard monitoring subscription.

We will publish concrete prices when the hardware exits trials. Until then, no changes to the pricing page.

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