Digital tools help monitor operations, ensure food safety

A unified modular platform can help convenience services operators monitor and ensure food safety, optimize operations and manage quality workflows. SmartSense One is a new tool from Digi, part of Digi International. The launch follows Digi’s acquisition of Jolt and its food safety and operational tools.

According to the company, combining the two platforms can help convenience services operators protect revenue and reduce risk by preventing product spoilage, avoiding equipment downtime, maintaining food safety and regulatory compliance, and enabling faster responses to issues before they disrupt service.

SmartSense One organizes capabilities into seven core modules — asset management, task management, food safety and compliance monitoring, quality assurance, service management and labeling — that can be deployed individually or together. Take together, the tool uses real-time analytics, predictive insights and automated actions on equipment and critical environments to provide performance tracking across locations. Monitoring capabilities support food safety and compliance through sensor and probe integrations that enable auditable temperature and process tracking, along with corrective action guidance.

The modules can be used separately or in combination. For convenience services operators managing unattended locations such as micro markets, vending banks and breakroom foodservice, the platform’s monitoring, labeling, and task tools are designed to replace manual temperature logs, paper checklists, and ad hoc shift planning with digital workflows.

“SmartSense and Jolt have always shared a vision to raise the standard for operational excellence through intelligence and execution,” said Guy Yehiav, president of SmartSense by Digi, in a release. He said customer feedback helped shape SmartSense One into a connected intelligence platform designed to predict risk, validate compliance and support safer, more profitable operations.