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What would a spoiled cold room cost you?

Most expensive storage losses aren't equipment failures — they're equipment failures nobody noticed in time. Put your own numbers in and see your estimated annual exposure next to what monitoring actually costs.

Your operation

Facility type

Temperature-controlled zones (rooms, coolers, freezers)

Typical product value in one zone

We've had a temperature-related loss in the last 3 years We hold an SFCR licence

Our assumptions — check or change them

Annual incident rate per zone: 10% Source: Our planning assumption: roughly one loss-capable incident per zone every 10 years. No regulator or insurer publishes a true per-zone failure rate – for context, rural Ontario power customers averaged 2.8 outages in 2023 (Ontario Energy Board), and commercial refrigeration compressors typically last 8–10 years.

Typical loss when an excursion goes unnoticed: 40% Source: Health Canada guidance: refrigerated perishables must be discarded after about 4 hours without cooling, while a full freezer holds safe for roughly 48 hours. We assume 40% of a zone's value is lost in a typical unnoticed incident, blended across cooler and freezer zones.

Monitoring catches an estimated 95% of incidents before product is lost. Hardware is illustrative: $100/sensor + $400 gateway over 5 years.

Your estimated numbers

Estimated annual spoilage-risk exposure: $6,000
Estimated annual monitoring cost Small plan ($2,388/yr) + illustrative hardware: $2,548
Estimated risk vs. what monitoring costs: ~2.4×

Put another way: one caught incident (≈ $15,000, expected roughly every 10 years per zone) would cover about 5.9 years of monitoring.

Estimates from published assumptions (shown on the left) — not a quote or guarantee. Recommended plan: Small, billed annually in CAD.

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