2–8 °C end to end — and an audit trail for every minute of it.
Cold-chain work is documentation work: the goods arrive, but the record is what gets audited. Scanning at each custody change, paired with temperature logging, turns the audit from a reconstruction into a report. The hardware must work in cold rooms, with gloves, and survive drops on loading docks.
Distributors, hospital pharmacies and cold-chain logistics providers handling temperature-sensitive goods under GDP-style audits.
Every custody point needs time, temperature and identity. Hand-captured notes fail audits; scan-plus-log capture at the dock and cold room does not.
Cold-room work means gloves and condensation; the device needs glove-capable touch and swap batteries that live outside the chill.
Batch and expiry must follow the pallet from receipt to dispatch note, without retyping at each step.
Cold is not a temperature spec on a datasheet. It is a screen that stops responding, a battery that loses a third of its capacity, and condensation that finds every port on the way back to room temperature.
This is the part that decides the device. Each step below has a different requirement for screen size, scan engine and connectivity.
Same workflow, same failure points, different scale. The kit column is what was actually deployed.
2–8 °C audit trail
Pharma
Temperature log and batch number travel together; the audit exports as one file.
Compact handheld with 2D imager and NFC
8 h → 30 min
Retail & apparel
Full stock-take of a two-floor store, done before opening instead of after closing.
UHF RFID handheld + fixed reader at the stockroom door
10 M parcels / day
Parcel & logistics
Sortation reads at belt speed; no manual re-scan when a label is creased.
Pistol-grip UHF reader + vehicle terminal on the tugThe questions that come up on almost every project in this sector, answered before the first call.
All questionsSend the workflow and the software stack. You will get two models and the caveats, not a catalogue.
