24/7 predictive HVAC-R monitoring

Keep the operation
running.

HVAC and refrigeration failures are hard to spot. A unit works harder for weeks, then quits on the hottest Friday of the year. Small wireless sensors watch every unit around the clock, so a developing problem becomes a scheduled repair instead of a crisis.

Live fault detection · RTU-07
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The problem

An ounce of prevention.

A unit works harder for weeks, then quits at the worst possible moment. By then it's an emergency call-out at emergency rates, with the doors closed while everyone waits. That's the pound of cure.

The warning signs show up weeks ahead, but between maintenance visits nobody is around to catch them. Someone looks at the units every few months. Everything in between is a guess.

A busy restaurant kitchen line during service An open-plan office floor on a working day Glass-door refrigerated cases in a grocery store
What the equipment protects

A dinner service in full swing. Everything in this room depends on cooling, heating, and air that work.

What a failure costs
$5–15K
all-in cost of a single major equipment failure: the repair, the emergency rates, the spoiled stock, the lost business.
Industry estimates · our cost guide breaks it down
5x
the same repair, Tuesday morning versus Friday night. Failures cluster at peak load, which is exactly when everything costs more.
Emergency call-out vs planned repair
Weeks
how long most failures develop before they land: visible in runtime, power draw and recovery time long before anything actually quits.
The failure library
Solution · how it works
It tells you first

Clip it on.
We do the watching.

Nine measurement points across the refrigerant and air cycles, watched around the clock, flagging the fault before it takes the unit down.

01

Clip it on

Clip-on temperature probes and current clamps, fitted during a normal visit. Never opens the refrigerant circuit: no gauges, no lost refrigerant, no mains wiring, no electrician.

02

Set up from a phone

Guided setup over Bluetooth, minutes per unit. Battery powered with cellular built in, so nothing gets wired and nothing touches the site's network.

03

You hear it first

The alert goes to whoever should act, the manager, the service company, or both, in plain language, with the data behind it. Whoever shows up arrives knowing the likely fault.

A SmartHVAC monitoring unit mounted on the panel of a commercial heat pump
The monitoring unit on a heat pump: sensors inside, one sealed conduit out.
RTU-07 · Building C · Discharge temp Severity high
FAULT THRESHOLD
Warning
Days early
Likely fault
Low charge
Conditions met
4 / 4
▲ Low refrigerant charge likely. Book before it loses cooling.
What it catches

Eight faults, caught while they're still cheap.

Nobody needs to memorise these. The service company knows what they mean, so hand over the list and ask if it covers the failures they see most. Every alert carries the evidence behind it.

Refrigerant undercharge
Refrigerant overcharge
Condenser fouling
Liquid line restriction
Compressor valve leakage
Non-condensables
Low ambient operation
High return air temperature

Alerts become scheduled work: a repair booked on the calendar instead of an emergency on the equipment's. The same watching covers air handling too: filter loading, UV lamp output, and fan motor current, tracked the same way. And the platform underneath is Blynk's, already serving HVAC fleets today.

The payoff

Everyone works from the same facts.

When something needs attention, the alert says what was detected, what it means, and what to say when the call gets made. No jargon, no sensor codes.

The technician arrives knowing what to look at, the visit is shorter, and the quote makes sense to everyone reading it.

Monitoring doesn't replace the service relationship; it gives both sides the same history. And in regulated environments, that history is the compliance record: what the air and the temperatures looked like on the fourteenth of February, answered in one click.

SmartHVAC notifications: each alert names the fault in plain language and says what to do about it
What that means for you

Three things stop costing you.

/01

Avoid losses

No surprise closures, no spoiled stock, no emergency call-out rates.

/02

Reduce cost

The expensive failure gets caught while it's still a small, planned repair. Units that run right also run efficiently.

/03

Improve comfort

People notice a warm room before you do. Catch the drift early and the room stays the way you set it.

The board

Every unit, one view.

Every unit across every site, sorted by what needs a look this week. Plain language instead of sensor codes, and a running count of what got caught before it broke. Green means green.

The SmartHVAC dashboard: every site on a map, units triaged into healthy, at risk, service needed and critical, latest alerts alongside
The difference
Without monitoring

Every few months

Someone looks at the units on a schedule. Everything in between is a guess, and failures don't respect the calendar.

With SmartHVAC
Continuously

Checked all year

Checked continuously, all year. Problems get caught while they're still small and cheap.

A closed site costs more
than any repair.

In the trade?

The same story, from the other side of the service call.

HVAC professionals

Monitoring changes the economics of every agreement

Margins on committed contracts, techs that roll knowing the fault, and a tier the competition can't quote.

For HVAC professionals
Facility management

Deliver this to every site you run

Loss prevention as part of the service, under your brand if you want it, with the same team you have today.

For facility management
Built on Blynk, the platform behind live HVAC fleets. Reads the sensors already on the equipment, on any brand of unit. Tuned for real faults, not nuisance alarms. The data stays exportable, no lock-in.
See it on your units

Which units give you the most trouble?

Pick a time that suits. We'll walk through what it would catch on your units, what the alerts look like, and what a rollout takes.

See the step-by-step, install to first alert →

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The failure library, as it grows.

Guides on catching HVAC and refrigeration failures early. No schedule, no spam.