Rooftop refrigeration unit above a fast-food drive-thru at dusk
For national & regional restaurant operators

Don't let a walk-in
take the store down with it.

When refrigeration fails, the location fails too. Catch it days early, across every site you run, before the food's gone and the doors are shut.

Pilot one region See the cost it'd catch across your estate
Live fault projection · Walk-in 03 · Store #118
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The problem

Right now, a unit at one of your locations is failing. You'll hear it from a store manager.

By the time it reaches you, the damage is done. Dumped inventory, a closed dining room, a health inspection you didn't want. The repair bill is the smallest line on it. And you're at the mercy of whoever got dispatched, with no way to know if the fault was caught early or sat in alarm for a week.

The walk-in compressor has been struggling for days. Saturday night it quits. By the time the crew opens Sunday, a weekend of stock has sat in the danger zone and goes in the dumpster.

Nobody knew the unit was dying until the thermometer did. Across a few hundred locations, that's happening somewhere every week, and you only find out after it costs you.

Aerial view of a retail plaza rooftop carrying HVAC and refrigeration units
Every location you run

Hundreds of sites. None of them tell you which one's about to go down.

The industry problem
47%
of commercial refrigeration repairs arrive as emergencies, not scheduled work.
Source: ServiceChannel benchmark, $1.75B of repair spend
~5 days
of downtime on the average emergency restaurant refrigeration repair.
Source: ServiceChannel QSR benchmark
70–75%
of equipment breakdowns are eliminated in working predictive maintenance programs.
Source: US DOE Federal Energy Management Program
Works with
Carrier Trane Lennox York Daikin Rheem Goodman Copeland Hussmann True Refrigeration

Walk-ins, reach-ins and rooftop units alike. The sensor reads the refrigerant line from outside, so it doesn't care what brand each site happens to run.

The cost · the stake

Downtime doesn't bill by the hour. It bills by the location.

When a unit goes down at a busy site, the repair is the cheap part. Industry figures put a single major restaurant equipment failure at $5,000–15,000 once everything's added up.

$1,000s

Spoiled stock

A walk-in in the danger zone can write off a weekend of inventory in one night.

40–60%

The lost rush

QSRs earn most of a day's revenue in two windows. Lose one and it's gone.

2–3×

Emergency premium

After-hours callouts run double or triple the standard rate, and you pay it blind.

Closed

Doors shut

A hot dining room or a failed inspection takes the whole location offline.

Figures are industry estimates, not Blynk numbers. Your real exposure is what we'd measure on your own equipment in a pilot.

Solution · how it works
It tells you first

A sensor on every
unit that closes stores.

The walk-ins and rooftop units a location can't trade without. We read each one, project where it's heading, and flag the fault before it takes the site down.

01

Goes on in minutes

Your service partner clips it on. No drilling refrigerant lines, no rewiring buildings, no capital project.

02

We watch every site

Each reading is projected a week out and checked against the faults that close locations.

03

The right people hear first

A plain alert, what's likely wrong and how long there is, to whoever you choose: your team, your property manager, or the contractor on call.

Temperature sensor clipped onto the refrigerant line of a commercial walk-in cooler
Clamps onto the line, never opens the system. No gauges, no lost refrigerant.
Walk-in 03 · Store #118 · Coil temp Severity high
SPOILAGE THRESHOLD
Projected breach
~5 days
Likely fault
Low charge
Stock at risk
~$4,200
▲ Refrigeration losing capacity. Dispatch before the stock is at risk.
The lever

Write uptime into your contracts.

You control the bid. Make predictive monitoring the standard every service company has to meet, and downtime stops being something you absorb. It becomes something they're accountable for.

You hold the contract. This is how you enforce it.

One standard across vendors

Every contractor, every region, measured against the same uptime bar.

Downtime becomes an SLA

Tie agreements to response on alerts, not just visits booked.

You stay vendor-neutral

We predict; your partners close the loop in the field. Switch partners without losing the data.

What changes

Four things stop costing you.

/01

Surprises become schedules

Overnight failures turn into planned visits before open.

/02

You see your whole estate

Every location, one view, which site needs attention today.

/03

Contractors arrive ready

Dispatched to the right site with the likely fault, not chasing a complaint.

/04

Inventory stays sold

Catch the drift before a walk-in writes off a weekend of stock.

Stop finding out when the doors close.
Start knowing before they do.

Why us

Built for an estate, not a building.

You don't want another dashboard to check. You want to know which location needs attention today, and proof your contractors acted on it.

Rolls out without a project

Your service partner deploys it site by site on the contract you already have. No capital project, no store closures, your operators do nothing.

Feeds your work-order workflow

An alert becomes a ticket routed to the vendor on contract, not one more inbox for your team to watch.

Any unit, any brand, any region

It reads temperatures, so a mixed fleet across hundreds of sites is no problem.

Proven at fleet scale

Built on Blynk, the platform behind live device fleets. Not a pilot abandoned in five years.

Blynk runs connected fleets in production today. This watches the equipment your locations can't trade without, reads any brand of unit, is tuned for real faults rather than nuisance alarms, and warns days before it fails. Your data stays yours, exportable, no lock-in.
Prove it on your estate

Pilot it in one region.

Pick a cluster of locations. We'll put it on the units that close stores, prove the lead time on your own equipment, and show you the cost it catches, in about 90 days.