Sydney, NSW — East Coast Distributors, a leading food and frozen goods wholesaler in New South Wales, has significantly improved its supply chain reliability through adoption of the Sentry temperature monitoring system. Faced with the perennial challenge of maintaining precise cold chain conditions in its freezer trucks, the company recently implemented Sentry’s platform to monitor both temperature and vehicle location in real time.
The Sentry system, manufactured by AFSTC, uses wireless digital sensors accurate to within 0.5°C, paired with 4G‐enabled “collector” units that transmit data continuously to a cloud server. With alerts available via SMS, email or app whenever temperatures drift outside safe parameters, East Coast Distributors can now respond immediately to refrigeration issues—avoiding spoilage of high value frozen goods.
In addition to temperature safeguards, the system’s built‐in GPS and vehicle tracking features allow the company to monitor each freezer truck’s route and ensure that deliveries occur on schedule and in optimal conditions. Though Sentry’s core offering emphasizes environmental monitoring, its “Guardian” line includes options for GPS tracking, integrating location data with temperature readings.
Since implementation, East Coast Distributors reports , tighter regulatory compliance, and improved customer satisfaction due to more consistent deliveries. The real‐time data also helps the operations team better plan maintenance, monitor refrigeration units, and respond proactively to equipment faults, rather than waiting for product damage to appear.