Case Studies

I’d Like My Hamburger Cold Please

Opening a restaurant each morning brings all kinds of surprises.  One fretful morning, the prep crew of Pipeline Restaurant Inc’s Burger Shack walked right into a disaster - the large walk-in refrigerator charged with keeping the cool side cool quit working during the night.  Thousands of dollars of inventory had to be thrown out.  Worse yet, while waiting for new inventory to arrive, customers had to be turned away.

Pipeline Restaurant turned to canareze for help and placed our c100 wireless temperature monitors on critical walk-in refrigerators and freezers at their Burger Shack and Caliente Mexican Grill locations in Rhode Island.  Each canareze c100 temperature monitor transmits the current interior temperature of the walk-ins back to the 24/7 Climatenet monitoring system.  The moment any walk-in refrigerator gets too warm, Pipeline Restaurant Inc.‘s management team is alerted via telephone and email to take action.

Ben Wood, CEO

“Walk-in refrigerators fail more often than you’d think.  With canareze, we can correct the problem before it adversely impacts our business.  Anyone who has ever experienced a refrigeration failure will agree that this is a no-brainer purchase.  Plus, the system took less than a minute to setup.  You just plug it into AC power and it begins monitoring the temperature wirelessly - we didn’t even need to run a phone line or setup internet access for the devices.  We then used the Climatenet website to configure our alerts to be sent to myself and our HVAC/R repair shop.  Now, the problem is fixed before it impacts our business.  I love these little birds!”

The Perfect Glass of Wine

How do you cool nearly half a million cubic feet in the desert?  Some people thought it was impossible - but not John Samora of Paso Fino wines in Phoenix, AZ.  John built a commercial wine cellar that serves as home to over $1,000,000.00 of wine.  To keep things cool in the desert, John installed two custom chillers to maintain the proper temperature and then “insulated the hell out of the building.” 

Last July, John received a jolt from the local electric company. “Things were running well, but then we received an abnormally large electric bill.” As it turns out, one of the chillers had failed.  The other one was working overtime to keep up - and as a result, consuming much more electricity.  “We had been running on one chiller for nearly a month before we knew about the problem.  Had the second one also malfunctioned, it could have damaged tens of thousands of dollars worth of wine.”

John installed three canareze c100 wireless temperature monitors in his facility: one on each chiller’s coolant line and one for the ambient air temperature.  During normal operation, the temperature of each chiller goes up and down as each unit cycles on and off.  If that EKG-like graph of the cycle goes flat for either chiller, that means it’s stopped working.  The canareze flat line detection alerts John the moment either chiller stops cycling.

John Samora, CEO

“We were originally told that cooling an area this size in the desert couldn’t be done.  But those are magic words to an entrepreneur.  The gauntlet had been thrown down.  I knew with the right design, we could make it work.  Now, we maintain the building at a constant 65F and can get down to 35F very easily if needed.  We use the canareze C100 with flatline detection for the two coolant line temperature probes so we’ll know the instant one of the systems quits working.  Now, we know if there’s a problem with our cooling system long before we receive a large electric bill or worse: lose the second chiller!”

Don’t Let the Pipes Freeze

When Tom started looking at ways to ensure that the pipes in his Michigan vacation home didn’t freeze over the long, dormant winter, he noticed a major problem with existing products.  Whether it was internet access or a phone line, they all required a wire into the home to be able to send out an alarm. 

When a winter storm rolls through and knocks out power and phone lines, the out-of-the-way, rural vacation home spots are usually the last to have services restored.  Not knowing how long it would take to restore power, it became clear that the existing temperature monitoring options weren’t going to suffice.

Tom chose the canareze c100 because it sends temperature readings over the AT&T/T-Mobile wireless phone networks back to the 24/7 Climatenet system.  Tom can log onto the Climatenet website from anywhere in the world and see realtime temperature readings of what’s going on inside his second home.  In addition, when the power does get knocked out, the built-in battery back-up in the canareze c100 can last for weeks on a single charge.  As if that weren’t enough peace of mind, when the temperature falls below 50F, Tom receives a text message and his neighbor receives a phone call indicating that something has happened to the heat in the house.

Tom W., Second Home Owner, Chicago, IL

“I am very pleased with my purchase of the canareze c100 temperature monitor.  I looked at a number of other remote temperature monitoring systems but in my view, canareze is by far the most reliable and cost effective solution for people that require temperature monitoring of a vacation property or second residence.  It’s less than half the cost of the landline I had in there (which is now disconnected!).  So, I actually save money each month with canareze.  The device has consistently performed since the day it was activated.  Thanks for designing such a unique monitoring device - I will remain a very loyal and happy customer.”

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