Cold Chain Management
Since their invention 60 years ago - reefer containers have come a long way. The advent of digital technology has ushered in new era for refrigerated transportation and IQAX is proud to be offering the latest IoT innovations to continue this journey.
We understand the challenges that carriers, shippers and logistics service providers face in an ever changing market and the importance of delivering true value to their customers.
IQAX enables its customers to reduce risk, reduce costs and derive real benefit from the technology that’s available in the market.
We provide devices that present real time location and status updates whilst leveraging multiple data sources, AI and machine learning to furnish you with an intelligent open platform tailored to provide the insight you need when you need it.
All of this combines to provide you with enhanced visibility over your shipments, enabling you to optimize container management processes throughout the shipment cycle.
IQAX Universal
Upgrade Your Reefer Container Devices and Optimize Your Operations
Carriers or Reefer owners who run any shipment cycle must ensure reefers are in good operating condition. This is to safeguard that the cargo can be maintained under reliable conditions that uphold the quality of the perishable or temperature-sensitive products shipped. As such, carriers and reefer owners must pay attention to the assets maintenance before the journey by carrying out a Pre-trip inspection (PTI).
In addition, during the journey they must execute and retain the customers’ operational instructions and avoid any impacts to the cargo’s condition from loading, through mode changes and final delivery. All this requires disruption monitoring, prompt response and corrective actions to avoid liability if the refrigerated contents lose value.
Reefer asset maintenance and monitoring to support shipment can be costly, labor intensive and time-consuming.
With advances in technology, not only do we have sensors to provide continuous updates for cargo monitoring throughout the journey, we can also leverage AI and Machine Learning to predict deviations to settings.
The result is a more accurate and optimized plan to enhance PTI. Instead of doing traditional manual PTI, carriers and reefer owners can offer an even more intelligent PTI at a lower cost and ultimately deliver cargo intact to customers.
Comprehensive Real-time Reefer Container Status Updates
IQAX has partnered with
to provide the sophisticated BoxPlus BPRDC300 (compliant and interoperable with Container Owners Association UDM standard) reefer container monitoring devices along with a platform for ocean carriers and reefer owners to leverage the power of AI and machine learning to manage their reefer containers.
The devices can provide frequent updates while maintaining battery power for a long period . In addition, IQAX integrates the device data with your shipment data so that you can easily locate and assess your customers specific shipments or enable your customer to do so.
With granular visibility throughout the end-to-end journey and AI and machine learning backed inspections, you can drastically save PTI cost while providing better support to your customers.
Reefer Asset Maintenance – Better Maintenance Planning and Execution
- Capture Pre-Trip Inspection supporting data remotely during the trip, applying AI and Machine Learning to formulate a PTI plan to save time and reduce error,
- Identify operating hours of the reefer engine periodically as well as any irregularities in performance,
- Identify problematic reefer components in advance,
- Plan equipment optimization processes.
Reefer Container Monitoring
- Identify the handover of equipment and responsible parties based on location and time
- Monitor the execution of completed transport and compare with the initial estimation
- Visualize the closest available smart reefer containers for equipment optimization
- Visualize sensor readings (e.g. temperature, O2 & CO2 readings, humidity level) change and trends
- Better understand the reefer situation by combining IoT data & shipment data, and resolve conflicts from different sources and considered IoT data with harmonized shipment information
- Receive filtered smart notifications when reefer conditions change from pre-defined thresholds
- Identify operational exceptions on reefer settings (temperature, O2, CO2, power supply)
- Identify sensor enabled alerts (e.g. Shock/door open, etc.)
- Identify the reasons and causes of unexpected change of reefer conditions and movements
- Reduce false alarms to focus on operational monitoring
- Identify bottlenecks in operations
IQAX Universal is your perfect solution for…
Business Benefits
Reduce Operation Costs and Optimize Resources
- Save time and labor costs with effective and efficient execution of PTIs
- View unused containers on a dashboard to make decisions for operation planning
- Better predict future container positions and locations
Increase Visibility to Cargo Status
- Gain end-to-end visibility on reefer container condition and location information over both land and sea
- Receive standard alerts to temperature, set point, O2/CO2, humidity, in-out zones and open-door exceptions
- Check and update container temperatures with 2-way remote control
Increase Customer Satisfaction
- Quickly look up precise container locations upon customer request
- Check container conditions on demand and save a log of records for accountability in the event of product spoilage
- Reduce time spent searching for shipment status for customers to speed up customer response times
AI-Powered Analytics
The IoT and AI-driven Cold Chain Management solution intelligently analyzes container usage, maintenance history and identifies damage to the reefer container. Ocean carriers are able to significantly reduce manual pre-trip inspection checking workloads, expedite cargo distribution and ultimately, save time and unnecessary costs throughout operations.
Robust Track and Trace
The IoT and AI-driven Cold Chain Management solution offers next-generation connectivity with robust track and trace capabilities.
Smart Alerts
The IoT and AI-driven Cold Chain Management solution identifies deviations or disruptions from reefer containers, triggering smart alerts to ocean carriers for strategic recovery decisions to be made.
IQAX 360 Flex
Extract Insights from Your Reefer Container Devices
Optimizing and capitalizing value from the IoT devices installed in your reefers.
Data collected from your IoT devices contain a lot of valuable information much of which has important financial implications. That information can help you save costs on Pre-trip inspections (PTI’s) and help you provide enhanced customer service. It can also help drive better asset maintenance.
Intelligent Platform to Elevate Your Operations
IQAX offers IQAX 360 Flex so that ocean carriers and reefer owners can manage all of their IoT devices, even devices from different brands, through one convenient platform. IQAX analyzes and harmonizes data from multiple sources using AI and machine learning allowing carriers to optimize PTI’s and identify potential hot cargo loading.
The platform provides visibility to precise reefer container conditions and locations so that you’re alerted only when there is a true potential impact. This enables you to improve operations, provide enhanced service and swiftly respond to customers.
The platform includes APIs for you to create your own location tracking and inventory applications and to integrate the insights and alerts to your in-house applications. IQAX also provides an online dashboard for your customers to track their shipments reefer condition.
Reefer Asset Maintenance – Better Maintenance Planning and Execution
- Capture Pre-Trip Inspection supporting data remotely during the trip, applying AI and Machine Learning to formulate a PTI plan to save time and reduce error,
- Identify operating hours of the reefer engine periodically as well as any irregularities in performance,
- Identify problematic reefer components in advance,
- Plan equipment optimization processes.
Reefer Container Monitoring – Better Customer Servicing
- Identify the handover of equipment and responsible parties based on location and time
- Monitor the execution of completed transport and compare with the initial estimation
- Visualize the closest available smart reefer containers for equipment optimization
- Visualize sensor readings (e.g. temperature, O2 & CO2 readings, humidity levels etc.) changes and trends
- Better understand the reefer situation by combining IoT data & shipment data, and resolve conflicts from different sources and combine IoT data with harmonized shipment information
- Receive filtered smart notifications when reefer conditions change from pre-defined thresholds
- Identify operational exceptions on reefer settings (temperature, O2, CO2, power supply)
- Identify sensor enabled alerts (e.g. Shock/ door open, etc.)
- Identify reasons and causes for unexpected changes of reefer conditions and movements
- Reduce false alarms to focus on operational monitoring Identify bottlenecks in operations
IQAX 360 Flex is your perfect solution for…
Business Benefits
Reduce Operation Costs and Optimize Resources
- Save time and labor costs with effective and efficient execution of PTIs
- View unused containers on a dashboard to make decisions for operation planning
- Better predict future container positions and locations
Increase Customer Satisfaction
- Notify customers of hot-loading before a container is loaded on a vessel to make adjustments and prevent claims
- Quickly look up precise container locations and communicate dynamic, predictive ETAs to customers
- Look up container conditions on demand and save a log of records for increased accountability
- Reduce time spent searching for the status of shipments to speed up customer response time
Provide Premium Services
- Offer a service to monitor customers’ cold cargo and send AI-driven alerts when deviations occur in order to prevent cargo loss
- Provide a bespoke view for customers to monitor container conditions and locations
- Offer APIs to your customers to integrate the container status with their existing systems
