Scalable, digital, and expert-managed services with a new level of sense.
Whether you are responsible for your supermarket’s operational efficiency, asset performance or energy efficiency, you probably sometimes wish you had a sixth sense for knowing exactly how to prioritize your efforts. Not to mention the ability to seamlessly view data and deliver precise reporting.
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How Alsense® creates value
- Automatic data collection
- Data transparency
- Global commands
- Duplicate assistance
- Improve asset performance
- Energy consumption
- Service calls
- Food loss
- Refrigerants leaks
- Access management
- Business continuity/availability zones
- Event logs
- System Manager backups
- Safe secure and scalable platform
- Food safety
- Auditable reports
- Temperature thresholds
- Setpoint benchmarks
Features and benefits
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Stay informed anytime, anywhere: Alsense sends real-time alerts and notifications to your preferred device, keeping you informed about any deviations or potential issues.
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Proactive issue resolution: Address critical events promptly, preventing product loss and ensuring compliance with food safety standards.
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Personalized data visualization: Customize your dashboard to view the data that matters most to you and easily track performance and trends.
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Actionable reports: Generate detailed reports and analytics tailored to your business requirements, enabling data-driven decision-making.
How Alsense® helps Food Retail professionals
Whether you are responsible for your supermarket’s operational efficiency, asset performance or energy efficiency, you probably sometimes wish you had a sixth sense for knowing exactly how to prioritize your efforts. Not to mention the ability to seamlessly view data and deliver precise reporting.
"Although I can't control the prices our store pays for energy, I can for sure help them minimize energy waste"
Tom, Energy Manager
"Alsense identifies my problem stores and where I need to focus my attention."
Allie, Service manager
"Alsense ensures the optimum temperatures are maintained for all food types, and that I have audit-ready food safety reports."
Julie, Store manager
" When looking after a chain of over 400 stores, routine actions that used to take the team days to complete, we now do in minutes."
Jeffrey, Maintenance manager
Alsense® dedicated Hubs
Alsense® intelligent retail hubs offer a comprehensive approach to optimal performance, energy efficiency, and operational savings. Equipping you with a sixth sense to detect issues, ensuring compliance, and driving you towards the future of retail.
Managing energy should be straightforward. With the right tools, meters, and time, you can uncover questions that pave the way for energy-saving solutions.
EcoHub features:
- Overview of main and sub-meter consumption trends.
- Energy profile display (refrigeration, HVAC, lighting, etc.).
- Estimation of energy costs based on consumption.
In food retail, ensuring the reception, prioritization, resolution, and analysis of alarms is business critical. Whether managed internally or through an external monitoring partner, a resilient and user-friendly platform is imperative. The Alsense AlarmHub meets this need.
AlarmHub features
- Enterprise-wide capture and prioritization of alarms.
- Performance tracking of alarm resolution.
- Identification of outlier stores and assets.
- Notification when action is required according to your process needs.
Securing food safety and reducing food waste are prerequisites for success in the food retail sector. With Alsense hubs, the entire food safety process can be easily automated, freeing up labor for more value-focused tasks.
TempHub features
- Comprehensive temperature data capture across the enterprise.
- Exception identification based on specific food types.
- Generation and distribution of daily HACCP reports.
- Recognition of exceptions affecting data integrity.
With a digital toolkit capable of implementing changes across the entire enterprise, your technicians save significant time during routine maintenance activities. Plus, it guarantees the optimum setup is maintained to minimize the risk of energy waste.
ServiceHub features
- Benchmark crucial setpoints for quick identification of deviations.
- Easily accept or revert local setting adjustments.
- Make changes in one location and replicate them across the entire fleet.
- Establish back-up schedule for ultimate peace of mind.
Securing food safety and reducing food waste are prerequisites for success in the food retail sector. With Alsense hubs, the entire food safety process can be easily automated, freeing up labor for more value-focused tasks.
TempHub features
- Comprehensive temperature data capture across the enterprise.
- Exception identification based on specific food types.
- Generation and distribution of daily HACCP reports.
- Recognition of exceptions affecting data integrity.
With a digital toolkit capable of implementing changes across the entire enterprise, your technicians save significant time during routine maintenance activities. Plus, it guarantees the optimum setup is maintained to minimize the risk of energy waste.
ServiceHub features
- Benchmark crucial setpoints for quick identification of deviations.
- Easily accept or revert local setting adjustments.
- Make changes in one location and replicate them across the entire fleet.
- Establish back-up schedule for ultimate peace of mind.
In 2024, the Danfoss monitoring and management software Alsense® won the Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award within the sustainability category. Watch the video to hear our experts and one of our customers explain about Alsense, and how it allows supermarkets to reduce food waste and energy consumption and increase operational efficiency.
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